Sentences with phrase «in satellite imaging»

Using the latest in satellite imaging technology, a international team of scientists scoured Antarctica's frozen landscape for signs of Emperor penguin colonies.

«The mosquito and the parasite develop resistance to the interventions... an additional # 700m through to 2023 — said advances in satellite imaging would help track the patches and spikes in malaria.

Not exact matches

Skybox Imaging, based in Mountain View, Calif., makes satellites similar to those of Planet Labs, though they are significantly larger.

In comparison, a single Landsat, a popular Earth - imaging satellite, weighs 4,566 pounds and flies twice as high.

«Space - based applications, like imaging satellites, can help people more easily access important information, so we're excited to support SpaceX's growth as it develops new launch technologies,» Google said in a statement.

ScanEagle can stay aloft for a full 24 hours relatively inexpensively, providing the kind of real - time imaging and mapping data coveted by climatologists, marine biologists, petroleum engineers and ship navigators that in the past have been largely left in the dark by a dearth of satellite coverage in the Arctic.

That's what Planet Labs, an earth - imaging company that lost 26 satellites in the Antares rocket explosion Tuesday, said about the launch failure.

Commercial imaging satellites tend to be big, expensive, and seriously high - tech, which is why there are fewer than a dozen in orbit today.

In 2009, she co-founded Skybox Imaging, a data and aerospace startup that designed, built, and launched the world's largest constellation of high resolution imaging sateImaging, a data and aerospace startup that designed, built, and launched the world's largest constellation of high resolution imaging sateimaging satellites.

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.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image in 2008 over the Pacific Ocean.

But it could later switch to satellites like the 28 imaging cubesats that the firm Planet Labs of San Francisco already has in orbit.

The company already has a 1 - metre cube satellite called SkySat - 1 in orbit and has plans for 23 more, each with high - resolution imaging and video capability.

«So a large group of people who would have been in robot vision work or remote sensors, like satellites, are finding a very happy home in neuroscience imaging.»

Using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instruments aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, Hilker, Lyapustin and their colleagues developed a new method to detect and remove clouds and other sources of error in the data.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Hurricane Alex on Jan. 14 at 15:30 UTC (10:30 a.m. EST) in the central Atlantic Ocean.

Here today at the annual meeting of the AAAS (which publishes Science), two researchers explained how remote sensing technology, including satellite imaging and drone flights, is revealing the traces of past civilizations that have been hiding in plain sight.

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.

In early February, it made two major announcements: It had folded Landsat 8 and Sentinel - 2 data into its archive and it had initiated a deal to acquire Google's Terra Bella satellite imaging division and its seven SkySats, which have the capability to image at 0.7 meters.

«GeoEye - 1 will have the best accuracy and resolution of any commercial imaging satellite in the world when it goes up,» says Bill Schuster, GeoEye's CEO.

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.

Many parts of the world completely inaccessible to the mainland due to lack of or destruction of communication and transport links can be monitored in near real time through satellite imaging.

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.

Similar measurements are currently provided by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS); however, this instrument is on a satellite that is in low - earth orbit, which means it is unable to track changes in lightning activity over the lifetime of a storm.

The satellite — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), a new ultraviolet space telescope — will examine the chromosphere, a long - ignored layer of plasma beneath the corona, in unprecedented detail.

In announcing the award, Australian science minister Peter Cook noted that the work on mineral exploration had laid the foundation for use of satellite imaging techniques in a range of areaIn announcing the award, Australian science minister Peter Cook noted that the work on mineral exploration had laid the foundation for use of satellite imaging techniques in a range of areain a range of areas.

The constellation of Earth - imaging satellites launched yesterday — 28 individual sputniks, called «Doves,» each about the size of its namesake and weighing in at a svelte five kilograms — is on its way to the International Space Station.

Unlike traditional Earth - imaging satellites, which cost millions to build and launch, each of Planet Labs» diminutive sky cameras, which in its predeployed state resembles a child's kaleidoscope, comes in at a fraction of that cost.

Some satellites, including National Reconnaissance Office imaging satellites, already have warning systems, while air force radar can track boosters or other objects in space.

«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.

A space scientist at the University of Leicester, in collaboration with the New Zealand Defence Technology Agency and DMC International Imaging, has been trialling a concept for using satellite imagery to significantly improve the chances of locating ships and planes, such as the missing Malaysian flight MH370, lost at sea.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

He led the Galileo imaging investigations of Ida (resulting in the discovery of Dactyl, the first known satellite of an asteroid) and of the impact of Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 into Jupiter.

On March 12 at 10:50 a.m. EDT (1450 UTC) the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Storm 13P's cloud top temperatures in infrared light.

Asner's flying laboratory, the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, was able to map carbon stocks that — together with satellite imaging and other geospatial data — will guide conservation efforts undertaken by the Sabah Forestry Department in Malaysian Borneo, the Southeast Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP), the PACOS Trust, BC Initiative and other organizations.

Land surface temperatures (LSTs) in January 2014 over Australia monitored by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

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 instruments also have the capability for imaging and spectroscopy in the wavelength... ▽ More AKARI, the first Japanese satellite dedicated to infrared astronomy, was launched on 2006 February 21, and started observations in May of the same year.

A pioneer of space archaeology, she has earned acclaim for being among the first to apply satellite imaging to locate archaeological sites in Egypt.

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.

Prior to joining Education Northwest in 2007, Joy was the controller for Space Imaging, the nation's first commercial satellite provider of one - meter resolution imagery and worked closely on contracts for the Department of Defense.

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.

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

On September 11, 2012, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of fires burning in Tomsk, a region of south central Siberia where severe wildfires have burned throughout the summer.