Sentences with phrase «global space observation»

«We need a global space observation system to be in place sooner than later,» says Jean - Yves Le Gall, the head of CNES, France's space agency in Paris.

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Within minutes of discovery, Sand activated observations with LCO's global network of 18 robotic telescopes, spaced around Earth so that one is always on the night side.

The surface of Europa is derived from a global surface map generated from combined NASA Voyager and Galileo space probe observations.

NASA's Global - Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument was launched into orbit earlier today atop an Ariane 5 rocket, with a mission to shed light on how the uppermost layers of Earth's atmosphere can be affected by powerful space and Earth - based weather events.

This week, NASA's K2 mission, the repurposed mission of the Kepler space telescope, and other ground - based observatories have teamed up to kick - off a global experiment in exoplanet observation.

One of the best and most widely implemented examples is the GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Support the Environment) project, a global network — supported by, among others, the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — of teachers, students, and scientists studying the atmosphere, water quality, soils, and local flora and Global Learning and Observations to Support the Environment) project, a global network — supported by, among others, the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — of teachers, students, and scientists studying the atmosphere, water quality, soils, and local flora and global network — supported by, among others, the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — of teachers, students, and scientists studying the atmosphere, water quality, soils, and local flora and fauna.

The compilation of a hemispheric or global land surface data time series from irregularly distributed (in time and space) historical thermometer observations can never be «correct» in an absolute sense.

308 no. 5724 pp. 1010 - 1014 DOI: 10.1126 / science.1106644 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/308/5724/1010.short Report Assessing Methane Emissions from Global Space - Borne Observations

«In summary, newly available observations from both space - borne and surface - based platforms allow a better quantification of the Global Energy Budget, even though notable uncertainties remain, particularly in the estimation of the non-radiative surface energy balance components.»

The remotely sensed flux observations are then used to estimate regular flux fields in space and time over the global ocean.

The measurements for the Earth's motions come from a variety of space - based measurements including satellites, like those in the Global Positioning System (GPS), the geodetic satellites that included records from NASA's older LAGEOS satellite, and observations of distant astronomical objects using a technique known as Very Long Baseline Interferometry.

The Goddard Institute of Space Science (GISS) global surface temperature anomaly time series is based on observations from publicly available observational data sets rather than models.

As the principal NASA center for Earth observations, Goddard Space Flight Center plays a leading role in global change research.

The perspective provided by space observations is crucial for monitoring global change and for providing data needed to develop an understanding of the Earth system.

However, for radiosonde observations, which are irregularly spaced with large gaps over the oceans (Figure 2.6), global - mean temperature is estimated on the basis of those stations operating during the season in question.

WMO workshop participants included high - level representatives of operational and research and development space agencies, the Committee on Earth Observations Satellites (CEOS), Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the WMO Space Programme, the WMO Open Programme Area Group / Integrated Observing System (OPAG / IOS), and the Expert Team on Evolution of the Global Observing System (ET - Espace agencies, the Committee on Earth Observations Satellites (CEOS), Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the WMO Space Programme, the WMO Open Programme Area Group / Integrated Observing System (OPAG / IOS), and the Expert Team on Evolution of the Global Observing System (ET - ESpace Programme, the WMO Open Programme Area Group / Integrated Observing System (OPAG / IOS), and the Expert Team on Evolution of the Global Observing System (ET - EGOS).