#radar-technology

#radar-technology

If you turned on the Weather Channel or your local news, and the meteorologist was pointing out, Oh, it's going to be raining in this area...,' those are the same radars that we use as ecologists to quantify birds moving through the atmosphere, says Kyle Horton, a Purdue University ecologist, who studies migratory birds and is a member of BirdCast, a collaboration that tracks bird migration.

The recent failures in air traffic communications and radar systems have reignited concerns about the safety and reliability of the nation's aviation infrastructure, particularly following a series of outages.