Sentences with phrase «visible infrared imaging»

This followed a visible - light image taken by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on NASA - NOAA's Suomi NPP.

How the image was made: The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite collected the data.

The combination of a series of Earth - observing satellite sensors, including the most recent Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) and Sentinel - 3, could enable the production of a near - daily record of global ocean color measurements now spanning nearly 2 decades.

On February 20, 2017, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP captured a natural - color image (above) of conditions over the northeastern Pacific.

Image credit: Composite image from Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership (NPP) satelllite Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).

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.

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

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).

This image, captured by NOAA / NASA's Suomi NPP's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), shows agricultural fires in the northernmost section of the Punjab state of India in October 2017.

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Another benefit might be to make soldiers more stealthy at night, by absorbing some of the energy that makes them visible to infrared imaging devices.

These surveys combined spectroscopy with visible and near - infrared imaging by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys.

This study used variations in the thermal emissivity of the surface observed by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer on the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft to identify compositional differences in lava flows at three hotspots.

Only the central region of the filter can transmit visible light, while the outer portion can only transmit the near - infrared light used for fluorescent imaging.

The near - infrared images from Cassini's imaging cameras show a bright unit of terrain in the northern land of lakes that had not previously been visible in the data.

Yet by connecting a single - pixel camera to a patterned light source, a team of physicists in China has made detailed x-ray images using a statistical technique called ghost imaging, first pioneered 20 years ago in infrared and visible light.

Moreover, because of limitations inherent in their design, metamaterials of this type designed for infrared and visible wavelengths have, so far, been shown to impart a negative index of refraction to light that is traveling only in a certain direction, making them hard to use for imaging and other applications that rely on refracted light.

The images in the new study are also taken in visible light — shorter wavelengths than the near - infrared regime, where most earlier adaptive optics imaging was performed.

For measurements of color, visible hyperspectral imaging data was collected between the ultraviolet through the near - infrared range.

Japan's Subaru visible - light and infrared telescope, located on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, provided optical imaging of the galaxies.

The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) instrument captured this infrared radiation during Venus Express's night - time orbits around the planet's southern hemInfrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) instrument captured this infrared radiation during Venus Express's night - time orbits around the planet's southern heminfrared radiation during Venus Express's night - time orbits around the planet's southern hemisphere.

For the first time, scientists at ICFO have managed to create a digital imaging sensor that can capture ultraviolet, infrared and visible light at the same time.

This multi-purpose high - contrast visible and near - infrared (R - to K - band) instrument is not only intended to serve as a VLT - class «planet - imager» instrument in the Northern hemisphere, but also to operate as a technology demonstr... ▽ More The vector vortex is a coronagraphic imaging mode of the recently commissioned Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme - Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) platform on the 8 - m Subaru Telescope.

A dedicated instrument for the direct detection of planets, SPHERE, is composed of a polametric camera in visible light, the Zurich IMager POLarimeter (ZIMPOL), and two near - infrared sub-systems: the Infra - Red Dual - beam Imager and Spectrograph (IRDIS), a multi-purpose camera for imaging, polarimetry, and long - slit spectroscopy, and the integral field spectrograph (IFS), an integral field spectrograph.

In addition, MSSS built the Mars Odyssey (ODY) Thermal Emission Imaging Spectrometer (THEMIS) Visible (VIS) camera subsystem, which shares optics with the thermal infrared instrument and is operated at Arizona State University (ASU).

The Legacy Surveys are producing an inference model catalog of the sky from a set of optical and infrared imaging data, comprising 14,000 deg ² of extragalactic sky visible from the northern hemisphere in three optical bands (\ (g, r, z \)-RRB- and four infrared bands.

This pair of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite use a combination of visible and infrared light to make floodwaters obvious.

The ISCCP calibrations are now the most complete and accurate set of calibrations available for the imaging radiometers on the weather satellites: total relative uncertainties in the radiance calibrations are estimated to be ≲ 5 % for visible and ≲ 2 % for infrared; absolute uncertainties appear to be < 10 % and < 3 %, respectively.

CO2 changes the albedo of the atmosphere in frequencies that are visible only to snakes and infrared imaging instruments.

We just received approval from NASA Headquarters to fly the Airborne Visible / Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) over these fires.