By transmitting radio waves and listening for their echoes, a radar can detect objects day or night and in all kinds of weather. By concentrating the waves into a narrow beam, it can determine direction. And by measuring the transit time of the waves, it can measure range.

Chapter Contents:

• Radio Detection
• Determining Target Position
• Exploiting the Doppler Effect
• Ground Mapping

Inspec keywords: radar cross-sections; radiowaves; object detection

Other keywords: weather; radar echo; radio wave transmission; object detection

Subjects: Signal processing and detection; Radar equipment, systems and applications