Sentences with phrase «radiometer instruments»

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

Independent uncertainty estimates for coefficient based sea surface temperature retrieval from the Along - Track Scanning Radiometer instruments

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

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And specifically on Venus: Carl Sagan's reputation was established with his work with the microwave radiometer instrument flown aboard Mariner 2, which did a «fly by» mission to observe Venus.

Not exact matches

The Advanced Spaceborn Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on the Terra satellite captured this image.

They combined data from LEND with lunar topography and illumination maps derived from LRO's LOLA instrument (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter), and temperature maps from LRO's Diviner instrument (Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment) to discover the greater hydrogen abundance and associated surface conditions on PFS.

Among its instruments is the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which has dramatically improved spatial resolution compared with its predecessor (the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, which earlier produced images of Earth at night).

Data from the Visible - Infrared Imager / Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the NASA / NOAA Suomi NPP satellite is able to detect these subtle differences in greenness, and is sending extraordinary images back to Earth giving us a clearer picture of vegetation around the world.

The Shallow Radar experiment will peer 30 feet or more below the Martian surface to detect buried water ice; another instrument, an infrared radiometer, will monitor dust storms and other atmospheric disturbances.

PASADENA, Calif. — When ground controllers begin powering up the Juno spacecraft's science instruments on July 6, one of their most important goals will be to get the microwave radiometer up and running.

This is an image of Chile's Atacama Desert captured via the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite on 28 Oct. 2001.

Orbiting instruments like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on the Aqua satellite, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite collect data on the color of the ocean.

In contrast, the Scripps team opted to directly correlate albedo measurements made by NASA's CERES instrument data with observations of sea ice extent made by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM / I) radiometers aboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites.

The first such map was created in 1992, based on data gathered by the Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR), an instrument on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, which NASA launched in 1989.

Also while a student in Los Angeles, she served as a team member working on NASA's Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, an instrument that flies aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft on Nov. 13, 2011.

This is very encouraging for the future application of measurements from sea - going spectral radiometers, as instruments not only for the validation of satellite - derived SST but also for studying the physics of the ocean skin temperature layer.

These were based on U.S. Navy, Canadian and Danish aerial reconnaissance data and from retrievals from advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR), passive microwave, and other satellite instruments

The top image, made from sea ice observations collected by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR - E) Instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite, shows sea ice extent on September 19, 2010.

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR - E), a high - resolution passive microwave Instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite shows the state of Arctic sea ice on September 10 in this image released September 16, 2008.

The two satellites are in a polar orbit with an inclination of about 82 degrees and operates 3 distinct instruments: a radar altimeter; an imaging spectrometer; and an infrared radiometer.

In addition to its primary mission of observing space weather, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite is carrying two instruments that are important to climate science: the NISTAR radiometer and the EPIC camera.

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The ERBS WFOV instrument is an active cavity radiometer designed to measure broadband hemispheric fluxes.

Note: The Sea Ice Index input data comes from the passive microwave instrument on the DMSP satellites, but IMS uses the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) instrument on the Aqua satellite from 2002 to 2011.

Above, you deny that there is downwelling IR, despite it being physically measured by scientists around the world using instruments (radiometers) made specially for that purpose on a daily basis.

It is based on channel - 1 and -2 radiance data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instruments flown on successive National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) platforms.

One of the authors of the Monaghan et al. group had previously examined trends in temperature «inferred from skin temperatures from Advanced Very Hi - Res» Radiometer (AVHRR) instruments on polar orbiting satellites» and found «a statistically insignificant cooling trend over continental Antarctica from 1982 to 1998.»

However, as you note, I don't see anything unusual in the Optimum Interpolation (OI) sea surface temperature (SST) analysis from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sst/plots.php

To monitor Arctic sea ice, NSIDC primarily has used the NASA Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer — Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) instrument on the NASA Aqua satellite and the Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) instrument on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite.

The six instruments are the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU - A), the Humidity Sounder for Brazil (HSB), the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR - E), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES).

The instrument used to measure the OLR on board the satellite missions is known as the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), a radiometer which measures radiation in four to sixRadiometer (AVHRR), a radiometer which measures radiation in four to sixradiometer which measures radiation in four to six channels.

He devised yet another instrument, the «ether differential radiometer.»

In addition to the data from the radiometers, the Berkeley Lab scientists will get supplemental data by taking advantage of a separate, in - depth DOE climate study at the same location, which is using additional instruments and a balloon - borne sounding system to get information on temperature, cloud cover, the density and types of aerosols or pollution particles, heat fluxes and other climate variables like precipitation.

The authors infer the amount of total aerosol using the Advanced Very High - Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite instrument and screen for locations where dust is present (they note that other aerosols might be mixed with the dust, but neglect this overlap).

My own experiments were with ASTER -LRB-(Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) datasets from a Japanese instrument fflown by NASA aboard TERRA.