Sentences with phrase «like environmental monitoring»

Cube satellites such as this one will enable things like environmental monitoring, weather forecasting, crop monitoring, forest management, and wildlife tracking.

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That's not to say that fracking shouldn't be highly regulated and monitored for environmental concerns like water contamination and methane leaking.
Other organizations like Global Organic Textile Standard, Global Organic Latex Standard, and GreenGuard monitor environmental and social impact of the manufacturing process.
Because the Jump Glider uses the sun's rays to recharge, he envisages that the robots could be deployed in a swarm, communicating wirelessly, to carry out coordinated environmental monitoring or mapping missions across vast areas like the Australian outback.
Large fish like tuna have been tracked before, but only with tags that communicate with Argos environmental monitoring satellites, which are accurate to a couple of hundred metres at best.
Located in the ocean off Canada's Nunavut province, the new observatory will monitor in real - time environmental factors like temperature, salinity and ice thickness.
That obligation, combined with the education and training he received by participating in the Health Board's environmental health program, convinced Carlisle that Church Rock Chapter needed to conduct its own environmental monitoring to generate new data that would be used to estimate population exposures, plan future health studies, and most important, determine if lands currently occupied and those slated for residential development - like Springstead - are safe for human habitation.
Much like the Internet itself, The Web acts as both a sentient organism and an environmental space: it facilitates the internal circuit between viewer, camera, and monitor, while simultaneously doubling as a sprawling architectural structure.
First there were there was a round of high fives and thumbs up exchanged among delegates from small island states as the chairman of the conference announced that the money in the long planned adaptation fund would be controlled by the states themselves, rather than doled out via some international organization that could monitor the money, like the older Global Environmental Facility.
Like me, he sees substantial potential benefits, and potential income, in public monitoring for natural gas leaks, which is particularly easy to do with infrared cameras, through which such emissions are as visible as smoke (as seen in the video below, which was shot for the Environmental Protection Agency).
She says they can use a plant - inspired robot for environmental monitoring, space applications or rescue under debris, «because it can adapt to the environment like a natural system.
One day these swarms could perform environmental monitoring in situations where it would be dangerous for people to go, like diving to survey oil spills, checking for nuclear pollution or just exploring great depths.
In addition to the acoustic monitoring equipment, the gliders are also outfitted with environmental sensors that collect data about things like temperature and salinity, and the estimated algae population levels, which are at the base of the marine food chain.
To attain FSC certification, 10 criteria must be met, including elements like environmental impact, indigenous people's rights, community relations, monitoring, and independent third - party verification.
The solar cells could be used in wearable electronics, smart glasses, fabric or integrated into any lower power device that needs to be self - powered like environmental sensors placed in remote areas where it would be difficult to replace batteries or sensors that monitor the health of bridges or buildings.
Steve Andrews, an environmental consultant who left Beijing last year for fear of reprisal, demonstrated in the Wall Street Journal earlier this year that the government had moved its monitoring stations to low traffic areas to make it look like pollution was decreasing.
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