What does IR stand for?

Imaging Radar

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Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (German: Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (Germany) Engineer (University, Dutch) Ice on Runway IFR Military Training Route IglooReport (Pittsburgh Penguins website) Ileal Resection Im Ruhestand (German: Retired) Image Rejection (radio electronics) Image Runner		Immediate Release (pharmaceutics) Immune Response Impairment Rating (medical assessment) Imperator et Rex (Emperor and King) Imposto de Renda (Brazil) Impulse Response (radio propagation) Incidence Rate Incident Record Incident Report (Canadian Air Force) Incoherent Recombining

Samples in periodicals archive:

While mini- SAR, the first imaging radar flown to the moon, will look specifically for water- ice in the lunar poles, an Indian instrument called High Energy X- ray Spectrometer will test a concept based on which scientists speculate there could be water there.

Chandrayaan hunt for water on the moon continues

The radar will be an off-the-shelf Telephonics 1700B search, surveillance, tracking and imaging radar system, which was integrated on Fire Scout under an internal research and development cooperative funding program between Northrop Grumman and Telephonics in early 2008.

United States: Northrop Grumman Awarded Airborne Sensor Demonstration ...

Bangalore, May 2 -- As the first radar mapping season concludes, the Mini- SAR imaging radar aboard the Chandryaan-1 spacecraft has been sending a number of images and scientists are looking at them.

Exciting news from the moon

the objects the imaging radar picks up generate a near real-time video image.

Air Force print news (Dec. 1, 2005): new technologies tackle landing ...

In his 30-year career at JPL, Elachi played the lead role in developing the field of space-borne imaging radar from a small research area to a major field of scientific research and application.

Head of jet propulsion lab to get Bob Hope award

Precipitation Mapping with an Airborne Synthetic Aperture Imaging Radar," Journal of Geophysical Research, no.

Using space-based radar to derive fully integrated, real-time weather ...

Automatic position calculating imaging radar with low-cost synthetic aperture sensor for imaging layered media, US Patent 5796363, 1998.

A Nondestructive Impulse Radar Tomographic Imaging System for TIMBER ...

NASA and the European Space Agency hope to get a much closer look with the imaging radar of the planned Cassini mission, to be launched in 1995 to radar-map Saturn and Titan in 2002.

Titan: no global ocean, maybe some seas