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The study, conducted at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) at the University of Cambridge, used airborne radar measurements to reveal the lakes underneath the ice sheet.
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The seismologists also talked to Duncan Young and Don Blankenship of the University of Texas who fly airborne radar over Antarctica to produce topographic maps of the bedrock.
«If you take the DOW radars and airborne radar, boy, a lot of what we know about tornadoes today is pretty much from the data they collected.»
New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near Bayou Corne, La., that year.
Detailed elevation map of ice stream C using satellite imagery and airborne radar, Annals of Glaciology, Vol.
The overall goal of the exercise was to collect measurements of snow and ice along the Thule Air Base survey track for validation of NASA Operation IceBridge airborne radar systems.
Using airborne radar and satellite imaging, researchers have located more than 400 of these so - called subglacial lakes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet over the past 50 years.
They used airborne radar soundings and satellite data to show that beneath the glacial ice were valleys so deeply incised that some of them were hundreds of metres below sea level, at distances tens of kilometres from the sea.
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It can function as a bunker in a nuclear attack, has the ability to repel airborne missiles and its electronic defense system can gridlock the radar of enemies.
In 2007, the success of Israeli Air Force's Operation Orchard against a Syrian nuclear installation was largely attributed to effectiveness of the Israeli Electronic Warfare platforms that supported the air strike and made the Syrian radars blind: some sources believe that Operation Orchard saw the baptism of fire of the Suter airborne network system against Syrian radar systems.
Scientists using ice - penetrating radar data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Greenland Ice Sheet, opening a window on past climate conditions and the ice sheet's potentially perilous future.
An analysis of a decade's worth of data from radars specifically designed to track airborne insects has revealed unseen hordes crossing parts of the southern United Kingdom — 2 trillion to 5 trillion insects each year, amounting to several thousand tons of biomass, that may travel up to hundreds of kilometers a day.
His work, published today in the journal Nature Communications, involved gauging the thickness and height of the ice via radar and laser altimetry instruments utilized in NASA's Operation IceBridge and earlier NASA airborne campaigns.
The Bell et al paper in Science Express this week (final version in Science) reporting on the surprising results from airborne ground - penetrating radar studies of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a great example.
Scientists from the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg Institute of Geography and from the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Gophysique de l'Environnement in Grenoble, France, used radar data from satellites such as ESA's Envisat and observations of ice thickness from airborne surveys in a complex model to demonstrate, for the first time, how the buttressing role of the ice shelves is being compromised as the shelves decline.
«New remote sensing approaches using light detection and ranging (Lidar) and radio detection and ranging (radar) from airborne sensors have been successful in providing high - resolution estimates of forest carbon density for small areas,» he wrote in a paper published in May by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
They use ground - penetrating radar, electrical resistance tomography, electromagnetic data, and LiDAR airborne measurements.
«In addition to satellite and airborne data collection and analysis, NASA scientists participate in field work to collect ice cores and other related data, such as ground penetrating radar,» Casey said.
While NOAA relies on the Air Force Reserve's «Hurricane Hunters» unit for the vast majority of hurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Doppler radar.
ISDAC flight 16 was flown in a pattern that included spirals over the ARM Climate Research Facility North Slope site at Barrow, thereby allowing us to use the surface - based millimeter wavelength cloud radar (MMCR) in addition to the airborne X-band radar that flew on the Convair - 580.
Convective and mesoscale processes, intensity change, rainfall, airborne Doppler radar observations, dropsondes, numerical modeling
Installed avionics systems to include TCAS, EGPWS, GPS, FMS, navigation, communication, auto pilot, radar, weather avoidance systems, airborne radio telephones, and Magnastar, Satcom and cabin entertainment systems, Performed operational checkout of installed systems upon installation completion.
Analyzed over 200 targets, resulting in the crafting of over 200 imagery products from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Multi-Spectral, infra - red, wide area airborne surveillance (WAAS) and low light TV (LLTV).
Performed pre and post flight inspections of flight director, navigation and weather radar systems and all airborne communications systems.