Sentences with phrase «based radar»

Designed diagnostic programs to allow bench testing on the AN / SSQ Combat Simulation Test System VME 9U based RADAR Signal Simulation and interface cards.

Similarly, ground - based radar and lidars have been used to measure atmospheric characteristics in the upper atmosphere.

The image below shows atmospheric temperatures overlaid atop ground - based radar and satellite visible images, according to a JPL release.

Homeyer's research is the first concept of its kind to take ground - based radar observations of storms and link them to satellite observations of trace gases to better understand the characteristics of storms and how they modify the atmospheric composition.

The Delphi Audi relied on six long - range radars, four short - range radars, three vision - based cameras, six lidars (laser - based radar systems), a localization system, intelligent software algorithms, and a full suite of active safety systems — a kitchen sink's worth of tech that underscores how much extra equipment automated cars will likely need.

But we trust that any legislation will include new resources for technology in the cockpit; new resources to move from a national ground - based radar surveillance system to a more accurate satellite - based surveillance system; and a broader effort to increase fuel efficiency and cut airport noise for people who live and work near airports.

«About 16 % of near - Earth asteroids larger than 200 meters in diameter [those detected by Earth - based radar] may be binary systems.»

Characterization of Deep Internal Layers and Basal Conditions Around the WAIS Divide Drill Site by Surface - Based Radar.

But the new study relies on plane - based radar from three flights between 2004 and 2014.

Subtle dynamical motions measured by Earth - based radar, the observed parameters of its gravity field, and observations of the magnetic field indicate that Mercury's core is at least partially liquid with an active core dynamo.

Astronomers studied Toutatis, Geographos and Castalia using Earth - based radar observations during close approaches to the Earth.

The idea that Mercury might have frozen water emerged in the 1990s, when Earth - based radar telescopes detected highly reflective regions inside several craters near Mercury's poles.

Its flight path after that was unclear and search efforts were launched in the South China Sea and Indian Ocean, where land - based radar had suggested it may have headed.

Independent tests undertaken in late February by two US aerospace firms — Lockheed Martin and Raytheon — showed that a new ground - based radar technology can detect those small bits of orbital debris.

Sea level has been rising about 3 millimeters per year, on average, since 1993, according to data gathered by space - based radar altimeters.

Accurate tracking of lightning and thunderstorms over the oceans, too distant for land - based radar and sometimes difficult to see with satellites, will support safe navigation for aviators and mariners.

Another is the relatively unexplored Dome F in Antarctica's Queen Maud Land, which ground - based radar suggests is a promising candidate.

French credited modern technology with making the detailed cloud - seeding observations possible, citing the use of ground - based radar as well as radar on UW's King Air research aircraft and multiple flights over the mountains near Boise.

One ambitious Air Force project involves a constellation of space - based radar satellites that would surround the planet, providing full coverage with the kind of granular detail thus far available only through aircraft or vehicles on the ground.

Conventional ground - based radar systems are expensive to run, become less accurate at determining position the further away a plane is, and are slow to calculate an aircraft's speed.

Specifically, Krafcik said the company found a way to bring down the cost of a crucial technology that it once sourced from third - party suppliers: The laser - based radar.

Alphabet is suing Uber for patent infringement over a crucial self - driving technology called lidar, which is a laser - based radar.

The next option is ground - based radar, which covers a wider swath of the weather than rain gauges, but less directly measures rain.

What's more, both rain gauges and ground - based radar have limited ranges, leaving vast stretches of ocean where hurricanes spend most of their existence unmeasured.

«The 21st Space Wing, using its global Space Surveillance Network of ground - and space - based radar and optical sensors, is tracking Tiangong - 1,» Diana McKissock, a flight lead with the US Air Force's 18th Space Control Squadron, told Business Insider in an email.

Perth - based Radar Iron is planning an exit from the resources industry through a reverse takeover of Israeli technology company Weebit - Nano.

By contrast, Alphabet's self - driving car division, Waymo, is building some of its own hardware, like the laser - based radars called lidar, in a bid to supply carmakers and other self - driving technology companies.

The new look at features spotted long ago by Earth - based radars, Paige said, shows «fairly conclusively that they are predominantly composed of thermally stable water ice.»

MESSENGER's maps of polar craters match up nicely with earlier imagery of the poles, taken by Earth - based radars, which showed anomalously bright features — patches that reflected radio waves much better than the surrounding terrain, just as ice does.

It launched one aircraft that made laps between two ground - based radars, dropping canisters that spread silver iodide into the clouds.

Ground - based radars using large antennas including the GBT could be used as a collisional hazard assessment tool and as a safety mechanism for spacecraft that encounter navigation or communication issues, in future robotic and human missions to the moon.

Not exact matches

To avoid any regional bias, we spoke to people throughout the beer industry — from brewers to hop farmers — to get their take on areas that are showing a lot of potential, though may still be under - the - radar on a national basis.

«It was easier for WA - based companies to creep under the radar.

Since August, Into's traffic has approached 1 million unique visitors in the U.S. and 4 million across the globe in a given month, based on internal data (it has yet to show up on comScore's radar).

According to John Mauldin, a Texas - based wealth adviser to the rich and author of the popular Thoughts from the Frontlines market newsletter, Solvency II is not on the radar screen of most people outside the arcane world of European pension funds and insurance companies.

Release Radar in particular is a great feature — a weekly playlist of new music customized for each user based on their past preferences.

The Waymo driverless experiment has been underway in Phoenix since last year, using Chrysler Pacifica minivans outfitted with Waymo's laser - radar - based self - driving technology.

A Virginia - based defense firm known as Artis, developer of the Iron Curtain APS system, uses two independent sensors, radar and optical, along with high - speed computing and counter munitions to detect and intercept approaching fire, according to multiple reports.

Vaccaro also likes a relatively under - the - radar name, Dallas - based Fiesta Restaurant Group (frgi), which operates the chains Pollo Tropical (a Caribbean - cuisine purveyor) and Taco Cabana; together they have roughly 400 locations.

Related: Privacy of Location - Based Services on FCC's Radar A trade group known as The Internet Association, which counts Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay among its members, said it would work with both the FCC and lawmakers on Capitol Hill to prevent «anticompetitive actions by gatekeepers.»

GM bought Cruise for about half a billion in 2016, and Cruise as a GM division acquired a California - based laser - radar (Lidar) startup, Strobe Inc. last year for an undisclosed sum, with the idea that Lidars units don't need to be what Strobe CEO Julie Schoenfeld called a «spinning Kentucky Fried Chicken» bucket atop a vehicle.

Japan formally decided in December it would expand its ballistic - missile - defense system with US - made ground - based Aegis radar stations and interceptors.

Subscription - based streaming sports service FloSports has attracted a growing following of sports fans by putting under - the - radar events online, from amateur wrestling to jiu - jitsu to cheerleading.

So far not even its external dimensions, specifications on its KLJ - 5 AESA - radar — that is also under test on a special Tu - 204C testbed — nor its type of engine were officially revealed, however following the latest reports it is not unlikely a special custom - tailored version based on the Salut AL - 31FM2.

The New York - based company's microwave assemblies are used in the United States» Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), the system the U.S. military is developing to track intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from places like North Korea.

The U.S. media somehow neglect to mention that the U.S. Government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars abroad not only in the Near East for direct combat, but to build enormous military bases to encircle the rest of the world, to install radar systems, guided missile systems and other forms of military coercion, including the color revolutions that have been funded and are still being funded all around the former Soviet Union.

Of course, it's starting off a much lower base than British Columbia or Ontario, so rapid growth doesn't mean the Chinese have suddenly become huge buyers of Alberta property, but what these trends show is that Alberta is starting to appear on the radar of Chinese buyers,» said Pittar.

Such independent expenditures can also take the form of advertisements in «under - the radar» sources, such as ideologically - based talk radio, web - based ads or phone banks.

Bitcoin still flies under the radar for most people, but the cryptocurrency has a growing fan base around Pittsburgh.

The new driverless car service here also coincided with the debut of the XC90 self - driving car, a Volvo sport utility vehicle outfitted with lidar — a kind of radar based on laser beams, wireless technology and seven cameras.