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MHz (megahertz, 10 Hz)
GHz (gigahertz, 109 Hz)
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THz (terahertz, 10 Hz)
HUMINT Human intelligence
HYDROSCOPY Optical device used for viewing objects far below the surface of water
HYGROSCOPY A substance’s ability to attract and hold water molecules from the surrounding environment.
HYGROSCOPE instrument showing changes in humidity.
IMINT Imagery intelligence (NGA)
IONIZATION The process by which ions are formed, (1) passing radiation through matter, and (2) heating matter to high
temperatures to give the atoms energy and force the electrons to leave the atom to become free electrons (negative charge).
(Whatever is left of the atom becomes a positive ion.)
IONOSPHERE From the top of the mesosphere to the top of the thermosphere.
INTERFEROMETRY HAARP is a scalar interferometer. See Myron W. Evans, P.K. Anastasovski, T.E. Bearden et al., “On
Whittaker’s Representation of the Electromagnetic Entity in Vacuo, Part V: The Production of Transverse Fields and Energy
by Scalar Interferometry” (Journal of New Energy, 4(3), Winter, 1999, 76–78); and www.padrak.com/ine/JNEV4N3.html.
JET STREAMS Fast-flowing air currents in the upper atmosphere. Polar jets 9–12 km (5.5–7.4 miles) above sea level, or
subtropical jets 10–16 km (6.25–10 miles), one of each in the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres. Jet streams are caused
by planetary rotation and atmospheric heating combined.
KILOMETER 0.621371 miles (a little over half a mile)
LASER Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging / Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging
MAGNETOSPHERE Overlaps the ionosphere and extends into space to 60,000km (37,280 miles) toward the Sun, and over
300,000km (186,500 miles) away from the Sun (nightward) as the Earth’s magnetotail
MAGNETRON A barrier microwave technology that operates non-ionizing radiation at the extremely high-frequency (EHF)
end of the spectrum by generating electrons with a cathode-anode cylinder to combine a magnetic field with an electrical
field. A large magnetron can generate a consistent EHF beam of microwave pulses equaling 10 million watts (10MW) per
pulse.
MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MASINT Measurement and signature intelligence (DIA)
MEGAHERTZ MHz, one million (1,000,000) cycles per second (Hz)
METAMATERIAL (Greek, meta — beyond) Engineered to have a property that is not found in nature
MICRON (μM) Micrometer; one millionth of a meter (0.000039 inch). 1 micron is 1/70 the thickness of a human hair.
NANOMETER (NM) One-billionth of a meter (0.000000001 m)
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NONIONIZING Nonthermal radiation; insufficient energy to cause ionization radiation or heating: electric and magnetic fields,
radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, and visible radiation
NRO National Reconnaissance Office (housed at one time in Room 4C1052 of the Pentagon)
ONI Office of Naval Intelligence
ORGONE Wilhelm Reich’s term for the life-giving ether
OTH Over-the-horizon radar
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS Atmospheric river affecting the West Coast of North America
PM Particulate matter; particles that are 10 microns or less. Coarse particle = 10,000-2,500 nanometers; fine particles = 2,500-
100 nanometers; nanoparticle (ultrafine) = 1-100 nanometers.
PPM Parts per million
PLASMA Fourth state of matter; an ionized (electrically conductive) gas in which atoms have lost electrons and exist in a
mixture of free electrons and positive ions. Positively charged particles (electrons and ions) governed by electric and
magnetic forces possess collective behavior.