Sentences with phrase «develop global maps»
Our group here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison was recently awarded three years of NASA funding to develop global maps of urban expansion between 2000 and 2010.
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In the case of the Human Cell Atlas, a global effort to identify the body's 30 trillion cells, the Initiative is providing funding to help scientists carry out their cell mapping projects, but it also has hired a team to develop a data coordination platform so that the atlas of participants can collaborate and pool data more efficiently.
The group has developed a system to track global press and social media to identify and map any changes in sentiment towards vaccines.
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.
The global competition asks entrants to develop systems that can help humans navigate, map and search in underground locations that are normally too perilous to visit.
Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic developed the Geographical Information Assistant (GINA), which has allowed rescue workers in Haiti use mobile devices to overlay emergency locations on multiple maps, pull global positioning system coordinates for the places they need to go, and use touch technology to make notations on their maps, according to Microsoft.
Boyce Thompson Institute Scientist Zhangjun Fei has teamed up with scientists from across the country to generate a comprehensive global virus distribution map for tomatoes and develop breeders» tools to breed tomatoes and related fruits andvegetables with enhanced virus resistance.
There she developed an approach, native elongation transcript sequencing, NET - seq, that directly visualizes global transcriptional activity through mapping RNA polymerase density genome - wide with single - nucleotide resolution.
«There were some very practical outcomes such as changes in practice, accompanied by developing tangible «products»... these included a real and accepted definition of global citizenship, new student reports and assessment tools for global citizenship, enhanced use of technology for curriculum mapping, a more global and accessible library collection, just to name a few.
Researchers at Yale and Utah State University have developed maps showing Americans» views on global warming and related questions.
They now have the tools to make good on this commitment — a unique partnership of World Resources Institute, Google, and more than 40 other partners have developed Global Forest Watch, an on - line platform providing near real - time mapping of forests around the world.
Map national vulnerabilities in detail and apply the «climate test»: There is an urgent need to develop detailed maps of the complex impacts of global warming, integrating climate - change - related risks with other threats.
Matt Ridley recently pointed out that a NASA scientist has developed a «Normalized Difference Vegetation Index» that uses satellite data to «map global vegetation changes.»
The aim of the project was to develop a service capable of delivering global composites and land cover maps using observations from the 300 meter MERIS sensor on board the ENVISAT satellite mission.
In partnership with Oceana and Google, Global Fishing Watch was designed, developed, and tested by SkyTruth to enable users to map and analyze all of the world's trackable commercial fishing activity.
Malaysia had the world's highest rate of forest loss between 2000 and 2012, according to a new global forest map developed in partnership with Google.
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«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.»
Dalia Kirschbaum and Thomas Stanley have taken one step in that direction by developing a new map of global landslide susceptibility.
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