With today's severe thunderstorm outlook again covering the Midwest and forecasters tracking the mid-August peak of Atlantic hurricane season, the infrastructure behind those warnings is undergoing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The current network of weather radars in the United States was installed in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. There are nearly ...

Making the world safer for car drivers, passengers and pedestrians is the ultimate goal of automotive safety systems and self-driving cars. To get there, electrical engineers from the University of ...

The SBX, shown here on a cargo vessel in Texas, practiced two days of "weather avoidance" when Hurricane Emily arrived in the Gulf of Mexico during 2005 testing. The range of the array inside the dome ...

THE MIL & AERO VIDEO BLOG. I'm noticing some very interesting defense work on fundamental improvements to phased array radar that has the potential for big payoffs in the size, range, and sensitivity ...

Decades in the past, satellite launches required a hefty budget from the design and build of the satellite to the launching of the massive piece of equipment. Fixed service satellites (FSS) ground ...

(Phys.org) —Radar systems today depend increasingly on phased-array antennas, an advanced design in which extensive grids of solid state components direct signal beams electronically. Phased array ...

Forecasts for the tracks of hurricanes have made huge strides over the past 15 years, improving by over 50 percent. But forecasts for the intensity of hurricanes have lagged, with only modest gains in ...

One limit to the use of phased array radars is the physical size of the arrays. Their large size prevents their use in collision avoidance systems in automobiles and other platforms that could benefit ...