News tagged with radar system

Next generation lens promises more control

(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University engineers have created a new generation of lens that could greatly improve the capabilities of telecommunications or radar systems to provide a wide field of view and greater ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 1

Programming tools facilitate use of video game processors for defense needs

Video gaming computers and video game consoles available today typically contain a graphics processing unit (GPU), which is very efficient at manipulating and displaying computer graphics. However, the unit's ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

New holographic radar system can track high speed shells

(PhysOrg.com) -- The British firm Cambridge Consultants has announced the successful test of its new 3D holographic radar system that can track fired shells traveling up to 1000 miles per hour. The new system ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Insect hearing inspires new approach to small antennas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ormia ochracea is a small parasitic fly best known for its strong sense of directional hearing. A female fly tracks a male cricket by its chirps and then deposits her eggs on the unfortunate ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Features on asteroid revealed by radar

(PhysOrg.com) -- Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in the California desert on Dec. 11 and 12, 2010, revealed defining characteristics of recently discovered asteroid 2010 JL33. The images ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

GPS not working? A shoe radar may help you find your way

(PhysOrg.com) -- The prevalence of global positioning system (GPS) devices in everything from cars to cell phones has almost made getting lost a thing of the past. But what do you do when your GPS isn’t working? Researchers ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Fake chips threaten military

A growing deluge of millions of counterfeit chips is posing peril to the military and the general public -- and perhaps nothing illustrates it better than a scheme federal prosecutors recently revealed that stretched from ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 23

Australian laser system to track space junk

An Australian company Tuesday said it had developed a laser tracking system that will stop chunks of space debris colliding with spacecraft and satellites in the Earth's orbit.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Students develop device to help blind manuever

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev students have developed an innovative optical radar system that helps blind people maneuver around obstacles.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Problems plague new air traffic control computers

(AP) -- New computers crucial to modernizing the U.S. air traffic control system have run into serious problems and may not be fully operational by the end of this year when the current system is supposed to be replaced, ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Antenna glitch on historic space shuttle flight

The US space shuttle Discovery blasted off Monday toward the International Space Station for a historic mission that put more women in orbit than ever.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Engineers turn noise into vision

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique for revealing images of hidden objects may one day allow pilots to peer through fog and doctors to see more precisely into the human body without surgery.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover how bats avoid collisions (w/ Video)

For years, Brown University neuroscientist James Simmons has filmed bats as they flew in packs or individually chased prey in thick foliage. All the while, he asked himself why the bats never collided with ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Smarter cars are gaining traction (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lives can depend on a vehicle's moment-by-moment traction. New European technology promises to make cars as good as experienced, alert drivers at sensing and adjusting to wet, snowy or icy ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers patent enabling technology for spread-spectrum systems

If you've ever gotten the dreaded "network busy" message while trying to make a cell phone call, you've experienced the complication of sharing a single network with numerous other users.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0