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The decisive effect which the British invention of radar (at first called “asdic”) had in the latter part of World War II on the outcome of that war, is very well known and understood. Military applications have spurred the huge subsequent development of the radar industry, although civilian radar applications such as air and sea traffic control, remote sensing, meteorological radar, etc. also had a large share. Radar targets were detected by their echoes, and their location was determined from the travel time of a radar pulse. Their trajectory could be followed along, and the Doppler effect was also used to gauge radial motion.
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Überall, H. (1994). Introduction. In: Boerner, WM., Überall, H. (eds) Radar Target Imaging. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85112-4_1
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