Image Courtesy BioDar




I.

uncertainty of
relation

*

of each

*

to the centre

*

persists




II.


atmospheric soundings

measurements
fall between

two steel balls:

*





*

ten metres above

         *

ten metres below




or as,

a balloon
takes          flight
an actual

measurement
occurs

*

radar echoes

of the moth

*

the cricket

*

suspend

tethered

slope of insect
crossing radar
parallel slope

of atmospheric
echo


*

how to see
insects

*

through      clouds

*
                   //

vertical streaks on the record

It is not possible to identify an individual insect by using its radar backscatter cross section because of the uncertainty about the position of the insect relative to the centre.
Remote Radar Sensing: Atmospheric Structure and Insects
A history 1973*

A housefly in 1973 at a distance of
Ikm sounds as twenty four db above noise level.

Atmospheric structure and the layering of insects
correlate.





Richter, Juergen H., et al. Remote Radar Sensing: Atmospheric Structure and Insects. Science, vol. 180, no. 4091, 1973.

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