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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Doppler radar is an important tool ...

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 ...

A problem faced by designers of phased array radar systems is the tradeoff of granularity or beam width and system cost, size, weight and power (SWAP). By increasing the number of elements in an array ...

Though radar is the more prevalent object detection system, the lesser-known ladar -- radar that uses lasers instead of radio frequencies -- produces a more detailed result. The problem though, is ...