During the past weeks, sea - ice thickness measurements were the main topic of the TIFAX (Thick Ice Feeding Arctic Export) campaign, which involved research
aircraft using laser scanners and a towed electromagnetic probe.
Aircraft use laser altimetry to measure changes in surface elevation.
Not exact matches
Chinese personnel at the country's first overseas military base in Djibouti have been
using lasers to interfere with US military
aircraft at a nearby American base, activity that has resulted in injuries to US...
Chinese personnel at the country's first overseas military base in Djibouti have been
using lasers to interfere with US military
aircraft at a nearby American base, activity that has resulted in injuries to US pilots and...
The researchers kept the
laser on track
using moving mirrors both in the
aircraft and on the ground.
The elements are integral to modern life, and are
used in everything from disc drives, hybrid cars and sunglasses to
lasers and
aircraft used by the military.
For this purpose, they
used the ISOWAT diode
laser spectrometer specially developed by IMK for
use on
aircraft.
The
laser system could be
used to keep high - altitude telecommunications
aircraft aloft indefinitely or even to propel spaceships, Bushman says: «To fly such an airplane at a high altitude is certainly reasonable.
Lidar
uses aircrafts and
lasers to create hypnotizingly accurate maps of the Earth's surface.
Gareth Rees and Neil Arnold of Cambridge University are
using a
laser measuring instrument called Lidar, flown on a Dornier 228
aircraft, to measure in pinpoint detail the topography of glaciers.
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.
used laser - guided imaging spectroscopy tools aboard an
aircraft flying over the state's forests to understand trees» responses to the drought.