Until recently phased array radar has been very expensive, used only for military applications where the cost of survival weighs in the balance. With the advent of low-cost microwave devices and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The current network of weather radars in the United States was installed in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. There are nearly ...

Phased-array radars are great for all sorts of things, whether you’re doing advanced radio research or piloting a fifth-generation combat aircraft. They’re also typically very expensive. [Nawfal] ...

(Phys.org) -- Aircraft operating in U.S. airspace rely on several different types of ground-based radars to help them fly safely. Yet these radars, based on older technologies that use many mechanical ...

Making the world safer for car drivers, passengers and pedestrians is the ultimate goal of automotive safety systems and self-driving cars. To get there, electrical engineers from the University of ...

NORMAN, Oklahoma (KTRK) -- This summer, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith traveled to Norman, Oklahoma, to learn more about the world's most advanced weather radar named HORUS. She joined the radar ...

BOULDER, Colorado — When a tornadic supercell thunderstorm forms on the eastern plains of Colorado, meteorologists use a Doppler radar to get critical scans and analyze the storm’s dangerous potential ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded $91.8 million to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research to build a groundbreaking radar that could improve predictions of hurricanes and other ...

The Army Digital Array Radar (DAR) project’s goal is to demonstrate how wide-bandgap semiconductor technology, highly-integrated transceivers, and the ever-increasing capabilities of commercial ...

There is fascinating technology behind the forecasts on your favorite weather app or Spectrum News weather broadcast. In recent articles, we highlighted the multi-billion dollar tech on weather ...

The current network of weather radars in the United States was installed in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. There are nearly 160 weather radars in the network. The radars are the NEXRAD WSR-88D ...

The SBX, shown here on a cargo vessel in Texas, practiced two days of "weather avoidance" when Hurricane Emily arrived in the Gulf of Mexico during 2005 testing. The range of the array inside the dome ...