@ShawnOL said:
Why doesn't doppler radar pick up planes? Hmm.
The answer is that it can and it does! In fact, it was first used to do exactly that, detect airplanes. They found that it was so sensitive that it would pick up cloud cover, making airplane detection useless on cloudy days. They turned it into a weather radar.
Because Doppler measures changing velocity as much as anything, it's great for weather but high grade military stuff still uses it also.
When you're looking at the giant regional map that the weather guy is showing, an airplane would be represented by a Dot that is so tiny That you couldn't see on the superimposed map.
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I’m guessing @VegasFrank could answer that better than anyone.
The answer is that it can and it does! In fact, it was first used to do exactly that, detect airplanes. They found that it was so sensitive that it would pick up cloud cover, making airplane detection useless on cloudy days. They turned it into a weather radar.
Because Doppler measures changing velocity as much as anything, it's great for weather but high grade military stuff still uses it also.
When you're looking at the giant regional map that the weather guy is showing, an airplane would be represented by a Dot that is so tiny That you couldn't see on the superimposed map.
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