Sentences with phrase «from satellite imaging»

Hyperspectral imaging is used today in everything from satellite imaging and energy monitoring to infrastructure and food safety inspections, but the technology's high cost has historically limited its use to industrial or commercial purposes.

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The candidates learn about products such as Google Earth, a satellite imaging program; get an introduction to what's referred to as the company's Googley culture; and discuss a wide range of topics (atheism, Russian relations, Internet access in Africa) in hour - long sessions that can seem a long way from Iowa and New Hampshire.

NASA collects surface temperature measurements with an instrument known as MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on two satellites (Aqua and Terra), which orbit the Earth from north to south every day.

A series of seven sharp images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite instrument, taken over 35 days, showed Larsen B splintering into hundreds of bergs on the order of 130 meters wide, 160 meters deep and a kilometer or more long.

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

Then the larger research team used data from the sensor onboard the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) to examine how the color of the lake water changed during those years — an indication of the concentration of the toxic blue - green algae present in HABs.

The images were captured by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

For instance, ESA has an agreement to use imaging radar from two Canadian satellites, but that will produce far less data than Envisat.

MBRSC operates two DubaiSat Earth - imaging satellites, built with South Korea; an MBRSC team is going solo on a third imaging satellite called KhalifaSat, which is slated for a late 2017 launch from Japan aboard a Mitsubishi rocket.

«We were able to document the leak from the Taylor platform because, during the BP spill, multiple satellite imaging systems were trained on that part of the Gulf on a daily basis,» he says.

By Wednesday, January 31, after numerous requests, a flyby was arranged from satellite - imaging company Digital Globe, which supplies images for Google Earth.

We found that upon closer observation that several of the species being preserved are under great commercial pressure for timber putting them at greater risk of extinction — observations that might be lost in high - level imaging such as those derived from satellites.»

The team is now testing the concept, working on the automated detection of vessels within imagery provided from the NigeriaSat 2 and UK - DMC2 satellites by DMC International Imaging, and in cooperation with the New Zealand Defence Technology Agency, with the ultimate goal to develop a practical system based on the concept.

The image is from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite.

«It's very similar to satellite imaging of Earth from space — except from ships instead,» says Hogan, who unveiled the atlas last week at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria.

To do so, Ichoku and his colleagues used satellite records from 2001 to 2014 — including data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission — to analyze the impact of fires on various water cycle indicators, namely soil moisture, precipitation, evapotranspiration and vegetation greenness.

Using satellite imaging and drone reconnaissance, archaeologists from Washington University in St. Louis have discovered an ancient irrigation system that allowed a farming community in arid northwestern China to raise livestock and cultivate crops in one of the world's driest desert climates.

In addition, when correlations were constrained to the time period that satellite burned area observations were available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)(2001 - 2012), and thus where estimates of land - use change carbon emissions were more certain2, correlations between fire weather season length, long fire season affected area and net land carbon fluxes increased substantially to ρ = − 0.797 and ρ = − 0.825, respectively, n = 12, P < 0.01).

Ulvestad was involved in an experiment more than a decade ago in which a NASA communications satellite, TDRSS, was used to test the idea of doing radio astronomical imaging by combining data from space and ground radio telescopes.

The Canadian Ice Service detected the remote event within hours in near - real - time data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite.

This image is a composite made from pictures snapped by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

One of the major differences between HAWX and anything else available is the inclusion of real life imagery from GeoEye's commercial Earth - imaging IKONOS satellite system.

Whether photographing secret military bases from fifty miles away, or imaging spy satellites in the heavens from earth, Paglen's photographs embody the limits of visibility, imposed both by the realities of physical distance and by informational obfuscation, that keep us as citizens from seeing and knowing these subjects on our own.

Using monthly - averaged global satellite records from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP [5]-RRB- and the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in conjunction with Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) extended and reconstructed SST (ERSST) dataset [7] we have examined the reliability of long - term cloud measurements.

The fire maps show the locations of actively burning fires around the world on a monthly basis, based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

This pair of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite use a combination of visible and infrared light to make floodwaters obvious.

AER researches, develops and implements algorithms for analysis of imaging sensor data from environmental satellites in operational and semi-operational processing environments.

Both the vegetation index and chlorophyll concentration were calculated using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

The team then extrapolated these data over the varying landscape to produce a seamless map, using NASA imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, the QuikScat scatterometer satellite and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

The image is from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

Pierre Potin, ESA's Manager of the Copernicus Sentinel - 1 Mission which was used in the study, said: «We will continue to use Sentinel - 1's all weather, day - night imaging capability to extend the long term climate data record from European satellites.»

The news of the browning of the Amazon basin was released yesterday, as a snapshot from a study of a decade's worth of data from 2 of NASA's orbiting satellites - known as MODIS (the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) and TRMM (the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission.

NASA map shows temperature anomalies from March 13 - 19, 2012 as compared to the same eight day period during the past 12 years based on data captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite.

Wildfires, volcanos, and industrial hot spots can also be found via thermal imaging from weather satellites.

The researchers combined these observations with data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the NASA Terra satellite.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of thick smoke from the fires over the Khanty - Mansiyskiy and Yamal - Nenetskiy districts of Russia on July 29, 2013.

His research focuses on understanding the interactions of ice, ocean and climate, in particular using imaging radar observations from satellites and airplanes to determine how the ice sheets in Antarctica, Greenland and Patagonia will respond to climate change and affect global sea level.

Satellite tots up volcanic heat «Robert Wright and Luke Flynn from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu used the NASA satellite MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) to measure the heat emitted by the world's 45 most active volcanoes,»

The pair of images above from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captures a wide view of the situation.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

There are also one - piece solutions (or one - piece with a subwoofer) that offer plenty of power but don't provide the stereo imaging you get from multiple satellites.

Google has pieced together a new look at our world with new images from the latest imaging satellite from NASA and the US Geological Survey.

Using satellite imaging, Penn State researchers for the first time identified a major magma supply into a reservoir extending almost two miles from the crater of a volcano in Nicaragua.

The Black Sea, captured on May 29, 2017 from NASA's Aqua satellite using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).

Taken by Planet Labs, a company with the goal of selling high - resolution satellite imaging, it depicts construction on the new headquarters from September 2015 through the present day.

Under REALTOR.com President Errol Samuelson, NAR's property listing web site is unveiling a number of innovations, including new mapping and satellite imaging capabilities; an increase in the maximum number of photos per enhanced listing to 25 from six; and the addition of videos.

These include additional property photos with enhanced listings (an increase from six to a maximum of 25), free REALTOR ® blogs, and more refined searches featuring mapping and satellite imaging from Microsoft's Virtual Earth.