Question

Signal detection theory has practical applications. For example, air traffic controllers need to be able to detect planes among many signals (blips) that appear on the radar screen and follow those planes as they move through the sky. Provide another practical application for signal detection theory.

Answer 1

Signal detection theory is helpful for soldiers at the borders for  assessing the signal that would provoke an emergency. They should be able to identify the noices ( of bombs, guns) from all the other noices around them.

Even in our daily lifes we are applying signal detection. Amidst a party going on aloud, we would recognize our phone ringing. Because we are able to correctly detect the signal.

Officials working in the field of climate and weather change detection, they go through the segment where in they must identify the correct changes and reject the incorrect ones.