Sentences with phrase «high radar reflection»

Water ice strongly reflects radar, and observations reveal that there are patches of very high radar reflection near the poles.

Not exact matches

The storm - chasing aircraft's new scatterometer — a microwave radar sensor that measures the reflection (or scattering effect) produced while scanning the surface of the Earth — can see inside the storm with high resolution, something akin to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.
Its three very high - frequency band radar sites in Texas, Arizona and Alabama ping the heavens with radio waves at wavelengths between 1 and 10 metres and their reflections enable us to detect objects down to the size of a basketball.
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