Sentences with phrase «airborne radar»
Airborne radar refers to radar technology installed or mounted on aircraft. It helps the aircraft detect and locate objects in the air or on the ground by sending out radio waves and analyzing the reflected signals. It is important for navigation, detecting and avoiding obstacles, and military surveillance. Full definition
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 ice is frozen to the ground underneath that part of the Devon Ice Cap, so we didn't expect to find liquid water,» said Anja Rutishauser, PhD student at the University of Alberta, who made the discovery while studying airborne radar data acquired by NASA and The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) to describe the bedrock conditions underneath the Devon Ice Cap.
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.
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.
In January 2005, FOI (Swedish Defense Research Agency) and Ericsson Microwave Systems mapped storm - damaged areas in southern Sweden using military airborne radar technology mounted in a test aircraft operated by FMV (Swedish Defense Materiel Agency).
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.
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.
Provided SQE support to various programs: land based combat systems involving infrared imaging and multiple airborne radar programs.
In Princess Elizabeth Land the team is doing just that by using airborne radar to verify the existence of these subglacial features and better map the region.
«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.»
Detailed elevation map of ice stream C using satellite imagery and airborne radar, Annals of Glaciology, Vol.
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.