Radar (acronym for Radio Detection and Ranging) uses radio waves to detect objects in the environment. It allows determining the distance (known as range), angular position (bearing), and velocity.

Radar is something that has been a part of weather for many years now and has been crucial to helping track everything from rain to snow, to severe weather. Above is an instance of that snow falling ...

In our radar series so far, we have gone over the basics of radar, reflectivity, and velocity. In the final installment, we go over tornado debris signature. We will show you how it works, what we ...

Radar imaging is a technology that has been developed, very successfully, within the engineering community during the last 50 years. Radar systems on satellites now make beautiful images of regions of ...