monostatic radar — A radar arrangement in which the transmitter and the receiver are located in the same place and usually form the same piece of radar equipment. This arrangement allows the transmitter to be synchronized with the receiver, and the timing method to … Aviation dictionary
radar — /ray dahr/, n. 1. Electronics. a device for determining the presence and location of an object by measuring the time for the echo of a radio wave to return from it and the direction from which it returns. 2. a means or sense of awareness or… … Universalium
Radar cross section — (RCS) is a measure of how detectable an object is with a radar. For example a stealth aircraft (which is designed to be undetectable) will have design features that give it a low RCS, as opposed to a passenger airliner that will have a high… … Wikipedia
monostatic — adjective Describing a radar system in which the transmitter and receiver are collocated … Wiktionary
Multistatic radar — A multistatic radar system A multistatic radar system contains multiple spatially diverse monostatic radar or bistatic radar components with a shared area of coverage. An important distinction systems based on these individual radar geometries is … Wikipedia
Bistatic radar — is the name given to a radar system which comprises a transmitter and receiver which are separated by a distance that is comparable to the expected target distance. Conversely, a radar in which the transmitter and receiver are collocated is… … Wikipedia
Continuous-wave radar — is a type of radar system where a known stable frequency continuous wave radio energy is transmitted and then received from any reflecting objects.[1]Continuous wave (CW) radar uses Doppler, which renders the radar immune to interference from… … Wikipedia
bistatic radar — A radar system having separate antennae for transmission and reception. These are normally located at different locations. See also monostatic radar … Aviation dictionary
Passive radar — systems (also referred to as passive coherent location and passive covert radar) encompass a class of radar systems that detect and track objects by processing reflections from non cooperative sources of illumination in the environment, such as… … Wikipedia
Synthetic aperture radar — (SAR) is a form of radar in which the highly directional (and thus very large) rotating antenna used by conventional radar is replaced with many low directivity small stationary antenna positions scattered over some area near or around the target … Wikipedia
