{"id":2991,"date":"2023-02-18T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T04:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:07:32","slug":"what-is-a-finder-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-finder-device\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a FINDER device?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About FINDER device:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The devices, called FINDERs( <strong>Finding Individuals for Disaster Emergency Response)<\/strong>, use microwave radar sensors to find survivors underneath the rubble.<\/li>\n<li>It was designed to detect a human heartbeat buried beneath 30 feet of rubble.<\/li>\n<li>The radar illuminates the rubble pile and receives reflections back from a disaster site, including the victim.<\/li>\n<li>FINDER looks for changes in the reflection that indicate movement and then checks to see if those movements can be attributed to <strong>human heartbeats and respirations<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0It can distinguish human respiration from animals or mechanical movements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a microwave?<\/h3>\n<p>Microwaves are defined as electromagnetic radiations with a frequency ranging between 300 MHz to 300 GHz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/nasa-tech-helps-turkey-earthquake-rescue-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NASA&#8217;s heartbeat-detecting tech to help with Turkey earthquake relief effort<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devices, called FINDERs( Finding Individuals for Disaster Emergency Response), use microwave radar sensors to find survivors underneath the rubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}