Sentences with phrase «measured radar data»

The physicists took data from their own Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX), a collaboration that measured radar data from Hurricanes Rita, Katrina and Ophelia, which caused massive devastation to the Gulf Coast of the US in 2005.

Not exact matches

If visual data from satellites is combined with information from radar and LiDAR, (light detecting and ranging, which provides laser - measured data about 3 - D contours), Xiao explains, researchers can really hone prediction of some diseases down to a tree line.

Using data from Global Positioning System (GPS) stations and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images collected during successive satellite fly - overs, ASU researchers were able to measure changes in surface elevation during a time period spanning the main Gorkha event, and several major aftershocks, with centimeter accuracy.

The UC Berkeley team used 19 years of satellite data to map ground deformation using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and measure creep along the southern end of the Hayward Fault, and found, surprisingly, that the creep didn't stop south of Fremont, the presumed southern end of the fault, but continued as far as the Calaveras Fault.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

«We're the first to have developed a strategy using data assimilation to successfully forecast the evolution of magma overpressures beneath a volcano using combined ground deformation datasets measured by Global Navigation Satellite System (more commonly known as GPS) and satellite radar data,» explains Mary Grace Bato, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre) in France.

Scientists using the data measured the density of the ionosphere from the change in the radar signal.

This 3 - D simulated Flyby was created using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Precipitation Radar data from 1:25 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.

It uses the data provided by the full - range radar sensors, continuously measures the proximity of the vehicle ahead and warns the BMW driver if necessary.

The researchers compared the GNSS - R satellite measurements with data from other sources, including tropical cyclone best track data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information; two climate reanalysis products; and a spaceborne scatterometer, a tool that uses microwave radar to measure winds near the surface of the ocean.

Using Envisat radar altimeter data, scientists from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London (UCL) measured sea ice thickness over the Arctic from 2002 to 2008 and found that it had been fairly constant until the record loss of ice in the summer of 2007.