Radar

9 Crucial Technologies for the Europa Clipper Mission

October 15, 2024
Aerospace & Aeronautical

Europa is slightly smaller than Earth’s own moon and is one of the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the solar system. One of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Europa’s crust is a largely crater-free shell of ice, somewhere between tens and more than a hundred kilometers thick. Crisscrossed with streaks…

May 22, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Many people around the world cross bridges on a daily basis without a second thought–but behind the scenes, engineers are conducting a battery of tests to ensure bridge safety. To support these efforts, one group…

23 Apr 24

Smart Roads Get Better Eyesight

Civil, Structural & Architecture

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Smart roads with advanced vehicle sensing capabilities could be the linchpin of future intelligent transportation systems and could even help extend driverless cars‘ perceptual range. A new approach that fuses camera and radar data…

19 Mar 24

Squeezing Ultra-Precise Optical Timing Onto A Chip

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Exquisite timing is essential to many important technologies, including GPS navigation and radar. Optical approaches provide the most precise and stable timing signals, but they require bulky equipment that makes them impractical in many situations. Now, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created an optical…

04 Feb 24

Compact Spinning Tech Makes Thermal Imaging Bright

Civil, Structural & Architecture

Seeing heat, as a cutting-edge field of research today, is getting hotter. Purdue University researchers have merged the power of advanced surfaces (including metamaterials) with thermal imaging algorithms to create technology that could open new frontiers in machine vision and autonomous systems.Previously, such advanced surfaces had been used for imaging…

20 Aug 23

Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Auto accidents are responsible for 1.3 million deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization. That’s like losing the city of Prague each year. A switch to self-driving cars and trucks with various types of electronic sensors and sophisticated computers at the helm could save countless lives. But getting this…

05 Aug 23

Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

I’m standing on top of 100 meters of ice, watching a drone crisscross the Slakbreen glacier on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, more than 600 kilometers north of the mainland. I’m part of a team testing Peregrine—a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with miniaturized ice-penetrating radar, which can image the glacial…

30 Jun 23

Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. The kits taught him not only about electronics but also about chemistry and physics. As he got older, he and his brother began…

11 Apr 23

Automotive Radar Object Simulation for Validation

Civil, Structural & Architecture

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Rohde & Schwarz. Homologation and validation of new vehicle models today require millions of test kilometers to be driven under different environmental conditions, on different types of roads in various countries around the world. Due to the increased complexity of automated…

22 Mar 23

This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time

Computer & Information Technology

Light can reflect off mirrors, and sounds off surfaces. However, scientists have long theorized about time reflections, where a signal passing through a time “interface” would act like it was traveling backward in time. Now a new study for the first time demonstrates time reflections with light waves. This discovery…

9 Crucial Technologies for the Europa Clipper Mission

3D Radar Reveals Defects Within Bridges

Smart Roads Get Better Eyesight

Squeezing Ultra-Precise Optical Timing Onto A Chip

Compact Spinning Tech Makes Thermal Imaging Bright

Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane

Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

Automotive Radar Object Simulation for Validation

This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time

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