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.