Not exact matches
The researchers
combined the altimetry data with previous
radar images of the region to make their discovery.
While the rift is only visible in
radar images when it is more than 50m wide, by
combining pairs of
images, SRI allows the impact of very small changes in ice shelf geometry to be detected, and the rift tip to be monitored precisely.
«By
combining images acquired in 2013 with the 2014
images, researchers will produce detailed surface motion measurements to improve volcanic deformation models,» said Naiara Pinto, the UAVSAR science coordinator from JPL's Suborbital
Radar Science and Engineering group.
The world's two largest radio telescopes have
combined to make detailed
radar images of the cloud - shrouded surface of Venus and of a tiny asteroid that passed near the Earth.
This
image combines two Sentinel - 1A
radar scans from 3 and 15 January 2015 to show ice velocities on outlet glaciers of Greenland's west coast.
The
radar images provided a comprehensive picture of soil density, moisture and local structures which, when
combined with the photographs taken from the aircraft, enabled the researchers to find and examine the city's characteristic temples and artificial ponds used for irrigation and water storage.