Sentences with phrase «land elevation satellite»

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Satellites aren't built to last forever, so it's not a big surprise that the third and last laser on NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) quit working on October 11, outlasting its designed mission length by three and a half years.

Khan and his colleagues combined GNET data with ice thickness measurements taken by four different satellites: the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and the Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) from NASA; and the Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT) from the European Space Agency.

Here are some satellite tracks, from NASA's ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite), revealing areas of dynamic thinning (red) in Antarctica and Greenland [click to enlarge].

Two missions will use space - borne lasers to measure tree height: an instrument mounted on the International Space Station, called the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI); and a satellite called the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2), that will focus on measuring snow and ice, but will also measure the planet's forests.

As far as I can determine in a cursory read, the satellite data measures land surface elevation, ie, tectonic rebound.

Recent land elevation changes via the CryoSat - 2 satellite, showing the greatest amount of sinking land in West Antarctica.