Radar is a useful tool with familiar uses such as detecting aircraft and observing weather. It also has some less known applications, such as a technology known as ground-penetrating radar (GPR).

Ground penetrating radar detects electrical discontinuities in the shallow subsurface (<50m) by generating pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic energy and detecting the reflections from the ...

One of the most interesting is [Glenn Powers]’ Open Ground Penetrating Radar. It’s exactly what the title says: an open-source radar system that can see into the Earth for less than $500.

After a close call between a construction company pickup truck and a just-airborne passenger jet, Logan airport in Boston has become the first to equip its trucks and snow plows with next ...

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has said that it destroyed $5 million of Russian radar equipment in an attack near Crimea.

the radar measured wind speeds of 263-271 mph in the tornado. Those measurements were then used to calculate ground-level winds of 309-318 mph. Mobile radars have only found 300+ mph winds in two ...