Other sensor types have been flown for research purposes including active and passive millimeter wave radar.
Millimeter wave radar sensor wikipedia.
The market for driver assistance systems based on millimeter wave radar sensor technology is gaining momentum.
Several countries employ the scanners for security.
A radar sensor used in 2003 model mercedes s class automobiles.
Active radar homing arh is a missile guidance method in which a missile contains a radar transceiver in contrast to semi active radar homing which uses only a receiver and the electronics necessary for it to find and track its target autonomously nato brevity code for an air to air active radar homing missile launch is fox three.
In 2009 darpa provided funding to develop sandblaster a millimeter wave radar based enhanced vision system installed on helicopters which enables the pilot to see and avoid obstacles in the landing area that may be obscured by smoke.
Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range angle or velocity of objects.
This unit is mounted behind a portion of the car s hood that is made to be transparent to millimeter wave energy.
In the near future the full range of newly introduced car models will be equipped with radar based systems which leads to high volume production with low cost potential.
Millimeter wave radar is used in short range fire control radar in tanks and aircraft and automated guns on naval ships to shoot down incoming missiles the small wavelength of millimeter waves allows them to track the stream of outgoing bullets as well as the target allowing the computer fire control system to change the aim to bring them together.
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