Sentences with phrase «imaging spectrometer onboard»

Using a unique, high - fidelity imaging spectrometer onboard the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, Asner and his team made the first - ever forest canopy maps of leaf nitrogen, phosphorus, and mass over a large portion of the biosphere covering nearly 200 million acres of Peru.

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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.

When New Horizons arrives at the Pluto system, onboard science instruments such as Alice, a sensitive ultraviolet imaging spectrometer, will reveal even more about the composition and structure of the dwarf planet's dynamic atmosphere.