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    RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for "radio detection and ranging". The term radar has since entered English and other languages...
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  • In general, detection is the action of accessing information without specific cooperation from with the sender. In the history of radio communications...
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    These same techniques are used for detection and tracking of conventional aircraft. Earth-based receivers can detect radio signals emanating from distant...
    73 KB (10,445 words) - 21:48, 13 November 2024
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    until 1952, when Robert Hanbury Brown and Cyril Hazard reported a radio detection at 158.5 MHz, obtained at the Jodrell Bank Observatory. This was confirmed...
    20 KB (2,234 words) - 15:32, 11 November 2024
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    the initial letters of the words of a phrase, such as radar from "radio detection and ranging". By contrast, a backronym is "an acronym deliberately...
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    doi:10.1007/s11214-020-00647-0. Zarka, P.; Pederson, B.M. (1986). "Radio detection of uranian lightning by Voyager 2". Nature. 323 (6089): 605-608. Bibcode:1986Natur...
    158 KB (15,616 words) - 02:24, 13 November 2024
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    Oppenheimer. His research involves high-energy collider physics and the radio detection of cosmic neutrinos, and in 2018, he was inducted as a fellow of the...
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  • free dictionary. Radar is an acronym for "radio detection and ranging", referring to a system for using radio waves to detect and track the position of...
    3 KB (350 words) - 21:28, 20 November 2024
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    also LIDAR, LiDAR or LADAR, an acronym of "light detection and ranging" or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging") is a method for determining ranges...
    130 KB (14,769 words) - 12:07, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of radar
    radar stands for radio detection and ranging) started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed that radio waves were reflected...
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  • Thumbnail for Acronym
    For example, radar for radio detection and ranging, consisting of syllabic abbreviation ra for radio and acronym dar for detection and ranging.. Some acronyms...
    118 KB (13,992 words) - 14:15, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Methods of detecting exoplanets
    radio astrometry using the VLBA has been used to discover planets in orbit around TVLM 513-46546 and EQ Pegasi A. In September 2020, the detection of...
    137 KB (15,526 words) - 04:14, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Homodyne detection
    In electrical engineering, homodyne detection is a method of extracting information encoded as modulation of the phase and/or frequency of an oscillating...
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    #10697: Real-time detection of a Fast Radio Burst at the Molonglo Radio Telescope". The Astronomer's Telegram. Farah, W. "ATel #10867: Detection of a highly...
    152 KB (14,771 words) - 07:20, 4 October 2024
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    the concept of a portable metal detector while working with aircraft radio detection finders. Fisher shared the concept with Albert Einstein, who foresaw...
    43 KB (5,707 words) - 16:42, 16 November 2024
  • Detection theory or signal detection theory is a means to measure the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns (called stimulus in...
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  • SN-2“ in the ME Bf 110G Radio direction finding Real time locating Lightning detection ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems –...
    19 KB (2,111 words) - 00:57, 18 October 2024
  • 1038/434028a. PMID 15744281. S2CID 4422044. Text at Nature. A New Radio Detection of the Transient Bursting Source GCRT J1745-3009, Scott D. Hyman, T...
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    Ray published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters titled 'Radio Detection of Green Peas: Implications for Magnetic Fields in Young Galaxies'...
    100 KB (12,658 words) - 01:42, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Error detection and correction
    theory with applications in computer science and telecommunications, error detection and correction (EDAC) or error control are techniques that enable reliable...
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