Sentences with phrase «airborne surveys of»

While the new device can be operated from the ground, the researchers are now developing a way to use it during large - scale airborne surveys of methane levels.

In March, Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) will conduct its second set of airborne surveys of glacier heights around the edge of Greenland and coastal ocean conditions.

Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne survey of polar ice, is flying in Greenland for the second time this year, to observe the impact of the summer melt season on the ice sheet.

The findings come from a multi-year airborne survey of atmospheric chemistry called HIAPER Pole - to - Pole Observations, or HIPPO.

Starting next week, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, will be carrying science flights over sea ice in the Arctic, to help validate satellite readings and provide insight into the impact of the summer melt season on land and sea ice.

An airborne survey of a methane emissions hot spot in the Four Corners region identified 250 sources of the greenhouse gas.

Not exact matches

Over the next months and years, researchers will monitor the response of Larsen C, and the glaciers that flow into it, through the use of satellite imagery, airborne surveys, automated geophysical instruments and associated field work.

But the airborne surveys are costly and only see one part of the Sierra Nevada, whereas the GPS network is widespread among many states.

As they continue to analyze the airborne data in conjunction with January surveys conducted on the ground and a longer - term satellite record, the team hopes to learn if parts of the Everglades that were stressed before the storm are taking longer to bounce back.

The latest survey, which involved a NASA research plane scanning some 500 square miles of the Everglades with G - LiHT, an airborne imaging system that includes LiDAR and other instrument, is helping scientists see the bigger picture.

The first airborne surveys after Hurricane Irma plowed through the region revealed enormous patches of dead seagrass south of the mainland, and entire mangrove forests stripped of their leaves further north along the coast.

The team combined field surveys with airborne mapping and high - resolution satellite monitoring to show that the geographic extent of mining has increased 400 % from 1999 to 2012 and that the average annual rate of forest loss has tripled since the Great Recession of 2008.

«The first of its kind ICEX survey has proved to be of great value to both NASA and NRL in terms of better understanding the capabilities of airborne and satellite based instruments to measure varying ice types.

Scientists from the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg Institute of Geography and from the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Gophysique de l'Environnement in Grenoble, France, used radar data from satellites such as ESA's Envisat and observations of ice thickness from airborne surveys in a complex model to demonstrate, for the first time, how the buttressing role of the ice shelves is being compromised as the shelves decline.

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.

Scientific Discipline Cryosphere Speaker Eric Rignot (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Abstract Modern views of ice sheets provided by satellites, airborne surveys, in situ data and paleoclimate records while transformative of glaciology have not fundamentally changed concerns about ice sheet stability and collapse that emerged in the 1970's.

As part of our renewed North Pole Environmental Observatory Grant (ARC - 0856330) we are now dropping eXpendable Current Profilers (XCP) as a standard part of our NPEO airborne hydrographic surveys.

NPEO was first established in 2000 and includes an automated drifting station of buoys fixed to the sea ice, an ocean mooring, and airborne hydrographic surveys.

By integrating satellite mapping, airborne - laser technology, and ground - based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the World Wildlife Fund and in coordination with the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment (MINAM), have revealed the first high - resolution maps of carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land - use practices.

The health of coral reefs is usually monitored by airborne and diver - based surveys, but the European Space Agency recently reported that scientists have been able to use Sentinel 2 data to identify a bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef.

By combining field surveys with this airborne mapping and high - resolution satellite monitoring the team has been able to detail myriad ecological features of forests around the world.