Sentences with phrase «microwave radar sensor»

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.

Not exact matches

«The device uses microwaves to measure the distance between the sensor and the bridge, much like radar does,» says Albert Migliori, a Los Alamos physicist.
Improve sea ice classification based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), scatterometers and passive microwave (PMW) sensors.
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