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3-D radar

radar technology
Also known as: 3D radar

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radar systems

  • Learn how a radar works
    In radar: Antennas

    …beams (as in the so-called 3D radars, which measure elevation angle in addition to azimuth and range), and in applications that require ultralow antenna sidelobe radiation.

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