Sentences with phrase «radar topography»
In addition to polar research, he also contributed to the development of algorithms that were used to mosaic data for the near - global map of topography from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).
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Topographic data was taken from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Digital Elevation Model prepared by CIAT, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
«This analysis uses elevation data on a roughly 90 - meter horizontal resolution grid derived from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).
The team then extrapolated these data over the varying landscape to produce a seamless map, using NASA imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, the QuikScat scatterometer satellite and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
The shuttle radar topography mission — a new class of digital elevation models acquired by spaceborne radar.
Previous versions of the Shuttle Radar Topography data set only covered the US in high resolution, the rest of the world was in lower resolution.
Not exact matches
Although the subglacial topography is vastly important, «it's unlikely we're ever going to [map] the whole of Antarctica in great detail using radar echo sounding — it's just too costly,» Fretwell says.
In the early 1990s the TOPEX (Topography Experiment for Ocean Circulation) / Poseidon satellite, a joint American - French mission, shot into orbit armed with radar altimeters to measure the height of the sea surface.
The two - man team set out aboard snowmobiles, dragging radar equipment behind them to measure the topography of the rock beneath the windswept ice, in a region notorious for atrocious weather.