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plan position indicator

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plan position indicator [′plan pə′zish·ən ′in·də‚kād·ər]
(electronics)
A radarscope display in which echoes from various targets appear as bright spots at the same locations as they would on a circular map of the area being scanned, the radar antenna being at the center of the map. Abbreviated PPI. Also known as P display.


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These modules provide radar video acquisition, clutter processing, cell averaging CFAR (constant false alarm rate) detection, radar video distribution on a local area network (LAN), radar video recording on a local disk, plot extraction, automatic target acquisition, target tracking, radar video plan position indicator display engineering and control interface, and network control.
The SDE-21 Vertical Tactical Workstations installed in the combat information center will have two flat panels - a plan position indicator with a writable surface and an auxiliary display with a touchscreen.
 
 
 
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