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terrain-following radar

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terrain-following radar [tə′rān ¦fäl·ə·wiŋ ′rā‚där]
(navigation)
Airborne radar which provides a display of terrain ahead of a low-flying aircraft to permit manual control, or signals for automatic control, to maintain constant altitude above the ground.


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Risk-reduction flights are being conducted in order to determine the performance of the new terrain-following radar and algorithms that produce a visual cue for the pilots to fly, said Maj.
In tests, terrain-following radar is the cat's meow.
The out-the-window, forward-looking infrared (FLIR), pDRLMS, and terrain-following radar (TFR) imagery is generated from a single database, so that correlation is achieved.
 
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