Sentences with phrase «created global maps»

Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high - tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant traits including leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, and specific leaf area (a measure of area displayed to intercept light per unit investment in leaf biomass).

These bold words, from Marie - Claire King, a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, refer to a new and controversial proposal to create a global map of human genetic variation.

Examining data from around the world, researchers create a global map of soil pH and illuminate how it changes between wet and dry climates

Researchers have created a global map of the world's forests in the year 1990, enabling accurate comparisons between past and current deforestation rates.

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Those gravity assists let the team create a full global map of Titan.

«The scarcity of field measurements presents a major roadblock in creating high resolution global maps of plant traits,» said Ethan Butler, co-lead author and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Forest Resources at UMN's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

So Google collaborated with nonprofits Oceana and SkyTruth to create Global Fishing Watch, an interactive map that, through both satellite and land - based tracking technology, gives a near real - time look at commercial fishing across the globe.

Global Forest Watch (GFW), announced yesterday, combines satellite technology with old - fashioned sleuthing to create detailed maps of forests.

The global maps were created from data obtained by an instrument called the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), which bounces an infrared laser beam off the surface and calculates the distance from the spacecraft by measuring the time it takes to detect the reflected pulse.

This is the only way to create new global - scale maps, which are needed to better understand these ecological processes and to predict the roles they will play in Earth's future,» Asner said.

Another route to speeding up the reactivation of damaged or abandoned water installations is to create a global database of maps and technical details of water plant and distribution networks, so that when somebody blows bits of one up, or abandons it, water supplies can be restored quickly.

Given a large enough photograph collection, he showed that it was possible to create accurate global and city maps.

A new model creates global hot spot maps to illuminate how what we buy pollutes the planet and where.

Using the now - complete Cassini data set, Cornell astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain.

For the first time, a map of fecal viruses traveling our global waterways has been created using modeling methods to aid in assessing water quality worldwide.

The team made observations at many different wavelengths, optimised for different features and cloud layers in Jupiter's atmosphere, to create the first global spectral maps of Jupiter taken from Earth.

A team of scientists from Vanderbilt and Stanford universities have created the first comprehensive map of the topsy - turvy climate of the period and are using it to test and improve the global climate models that have been developed to predict how precipitation patterns will change in the future.

Researchers mapped the brain's connections as one would analyze a large - scale network such as the U.S electrical grid, global flight patterns or Linkedin professional connections, creating a model of the brain's «connectome.»

Now, an expert U.N. panel has come up with a technical road map to guide the first global effort to create a standardized emissions inventory of tiny soot particles.

NASA created the map by tracking small fluctuations in the orbits of three spacecraft over 16 years using the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

This global map of the gravity or Mars is the best one yet made and was created from 16 years» worth of data from three NASA orbiters around the Red Planet.

Taking a genomic global survey of yeast allowed the researchers to create a map of the evolution of the fungus.

Further, the orbiter's laser altimeter helped scientists create the best - ever topographic map of the Red Planet, and readings from its magnetometer indicate that Mars once had a global magnetic field, just like Earth.

It is an image from an on - going project started in 2011 with the working title: The Fertile Forest, in which Hannah Collins photographs Amazonian plants used to treat different parts of the human body and through detailed field research with tribes in the Amazon basin creates a kind of corporeal mapping of the corresponding plants of the forest, bringing to our attention the fact that, as well as serving as the lungs of the world, the Amazon basin is our global pharmacy.

Many of his works including the Global Miniatures (2009), display Bayjoo's signature style of creating politically and culturally charged collages where symbols of national identity — flags, maps and cultural motifs — are combined with translucent layers of paint, reflecting on the effects of colonialism and migration.

Her work encompasses a variety of media; she collages maps to create fictional hybrid cartographical works, creates drawings compiled of text taken from atlases, and employs technologies such as thermal imaging cameras, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and video...

By using the Global Goals as a UN endorsed framework for action, you can map the social and environmental impacts of your business, and create a plan to cut costs and risks and maximise opportunities to deliver positive impact.

The graph is created by Andy Jacobson from the NOAA and includes a global map displaying where the measurements are coming from, a comparison of Mauna Loa CO2 to South Pole CO2 and the graph expands at the end to include ice core measurements back to the 19th Century.

THE ANIMATION OF MULTIDECADAL CHANGES IN SST ANOMALIES The Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) Global Map - Making webpage allows users to create maps of global SST anomalies and maps of the changes in global SST anomalies (based on local linear trends) over user - specified time inteGlobal Map - Making webpage allows users to create maps of global SST anomalies and maps of the changes in global SST anomalies (based on local linear trends) over user - specified time integlobal SST anomalies and maps of the changes in global SST anomalies (based on local linear trends) over user - specified time integlobal SST anomalies (based on local linear trends) over user - specified time intervals.

An analysis of 21 billion AIS signals from ships at sea has created the first - ever global map of transshipment.

In this data activity, students create maps of the snow cover of each continent, and determine the average global snow cover.

(01/30/2012) NASA has created a new animation showing global temperatures on a map of the Earth from 1880 - 2011.

The following data sets on Global Forest Watch were created using Google Earth Engine, Google's geospatial analysis tool: the Hansen / UMD / Google / USGA / NASA annual tree cover loss, tree cover gain, and tree cover data, and the Landsat base maps.

Observational Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) dust flux data were recently compiled to create global dust deposition maps for these time slices (25).

«This project is helping put Oman on the global solar energy map, creating new jobs and developing expertise in solar technology innovation, project deployment and manufacturing.»

The following data sets on Global Forest Watch were created using Google Earth Engine, Google's geospatial analysis tool: the University of Maryland / Google's annual tree cover loss, tree cover gain, and tree cover data, and the Landsat base maps.

Users can register their egg at airqualityegg.com and their data is automatically mapped, creating a real - time source for local, regional and even global air quality.

Created by Globaïa, an organization dedicated to global environmental education, the project is dubbed «A Cartography of the Anthropocene,» with some maps highlighting transportation or communcation networks and pulled together in an animation:

Employment Screening Resources (ESR)-- a leading global background check firm — has created an interactive Ban the Box Map to help employers better understand the current patchwork of Ban the Box laws in states, counties, and cities in America.

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employment Screening Resources (ESR)-- a leading global background check firm — has created an interactive Ban the Box Map to help employers better understand the current patchwork of Ban the Box laws in states, counties, and cities in America.

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