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electronic reconnaissance, reconnaissance
1. The scanning by electronic procedures so substantially uniform coverage of an area is provided by a predetermined pattern of scanning lines.
2. The detection, identification, evaluation, and location of foreign, electromagnetic radiations by processing electronic circuits as carried out by aircraft, drones, missiles, earth satellites, or fixed monitoring stations.

It includes both radar reconnaissance and electronic-countermeasure reconnaissance.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 68) -tron, -tronic, -tronics + (page 12)