Sentences with phrase «measuring elevation»

Because it can be hard to measure the impact of taking 10 flights of stairs per day, fitness tracking apps provide some perspective when measuring elevation gain.

Our top pick for most users is the non-cellular version of the Apple Watch Series 3 (starting at $ 329), which has a faster processor, barometric altimeter for measuring elevation, built - in GPS, water - resistance for swim - tracking, Siri and a suite of health and fitness features, thanks to watchOS 4.

«We're measuring the elevation of a liquid surface on another body 10 astronomical units away from the sun to an accuracy of roughly 40 centimeters.

There's the new M8 co-processor, which tracks your activity using the phone's myriad sensors, including a barometer to measure elevation changes.

They tested high - performance computational models against known geological and geophysical observations of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and demonstrated that a drip of lithospheric material below the surface can account for the measured elevation changes across the region.

Instead, radar has been used by spacecraft to penetrate the clouds and map out the surface — both by reflecting radar off the surface to measure elevation and by looking at the radio emissions of the hot surface.

Hayes and his team measured the elevation of lakes filled with liquid as well as those that are now dry, and found that lakes exist hundreds of meters above sea level, and that within a watershed, the floors of the empty lakes are all at higher elevations than the filled lakes in their vicinity.

Previous studies have generally used satellites to measure elevation or... Read more

Other specs include 1 GB RAM, 16/64/128 GB internal storage, Wi - Fi, NFC, A-GPS, lightning port, barometer (to measure elevation), 1.2 megapixel front - facing snapper, and 1810 mAh battery.

It can now measure elevation in addition to steps taken.

It also doesn't measure elevation when you're recording an outdoor workout.

There is no altimeter so it won't measure elevation but it does deliver call and text alerts in the form of colour - coded LED lights.

The rarer features of the Ox are a simple run analyser, heart rate monitor and blood oxygen level monitor and an altimeter to measure elevation.

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Having previously served in churches where the presence of the Spirit of the Lord can be measured by how awed and humbled everyone is, it was all the more terrible when I ended up more recently in churches where the gross inflation and elevation of everyone's ego is mistaken for the Spirit of the Lord....

Measures pressure (elevation of the water) in the tank and the piping and displays on the oven controller.

Where a low - tide elevation is situated wholly or partly at a distance not exceeding the breadth of the territorial sea from the mainland or an island, the low - water line on that elevation may be used as the baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea.

The report suggests that FEMA, or towns, could determine the elevations of many homes at once using truck - mounted LIDAR, a technology that measures distance by analyzing the reflected light of a laser.

Any research that relies on measuring changes in Earth's surface, including studies of volcanoes and coastal erosion, would benefit from elevation data produced by the SETSM software, Howat said.

Using different instruments, satellites can measure atmospheric aerosol levels, ground elevations, and more.

«Does it make sense to measure the quality of air we breathe via many tiny, distant satellite sensors at the elevation of a skyscraper, or by using one or several sensors in close proximity to the nose?

It The plane carries a laser instrument that measures changes in the ice elevation, a high - resolution camera system to image the surface, and an instrument to infer the surface temperature.

Concussions that lead to lasting brain dysfunction cause SNTF to accumulate in vulnerable long axon tracts of the brain, and its blood elevation is a measure of this diffuse axonal injury.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

A 2009 map, made by using lasers to measure subtle differences in elevation, reveals the circular shape of the fort (circled in red).

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.

By comparing the changes in elevation of the entire surfaces of these volcanoes, they were able to measure how they rose and fell over that time.

The claim of a 270 - meter run up, which is a measure of the elevation above sea level a wave reaches on shore, is «certainly possible,» says James Goff, a paleotsunami expert at University of New South Wales, Sydney, in Australia.

Scambos and his colleagues analyzed five images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite before and after the Larsen B breakup as well as data from ICESat, which measures changes in elevation.

In a new study, published in Global Change Biology, scientists from the Universities of Bristol, James Cook University, and Melbourne University in Australia tested the response of the tropical rainforest fly Drosophila birchii to a changing climate by transplanting flies in hundreds of cages along mountain gradients in north - eastern Australia, and measuring their reproductive success at different elevations.

«We'll be able to triple our data collection rate and see finer detail within steep structures, like crevasses or sea ice leads, in addition to measuring ice elevation more accurately.»

The P - 3 Orion, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will carry IceBridge's most comprehensive instrument suite: a scanning laser altimeter that measures surface elevation, three types of radar systems to study ice layers and the bedrock underneath the ice sheet, a high - resolution camera to create color maps of polar ice, and infrared cameras to measure surface temperatures of sea and land ice.

Two missions will use space - borne lasers to measure tree height: an instrument mounted on the International Space Station, called the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI); and a satellite called the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2), that will focus on measuring snow and ice, but will also measure the planet's forests.

This fall, NASA will launch the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2), which will use a highly advanced laser instrument to measure the changing elevation of ice around the world, providing a view of the height of Earth's ice with greater detail than previously Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2), which will use a highly advanced laser instrument to measure the changing elevation of ice around the world, providing a view of the height of Earth's ice with greater detail than previously elevation of ice around the world, providing a view of the height of Earth's ice with greater detail than previously possible.

No, The Twilight Samurai seems an apologia for the romanticization of violence and, moreover, for the elevation of the cult of masculinity out of the mud of bestial muck — where it at least in some measure belongs — and into realms of ritualistic divinity.

Students learn how to construct and use scale drawings to measure angles of elevation and depression and unknown...

So taking your car and measuring HP on a dynojet at sea level will produce different horsepower than a calibrated dynojet at 10k feet elevation (the dyno can adjust for the altitude, but what if the car's boost controller works with absolute pressure and not relative?

Is it possible to measure progress as the process of development, elevation, and freeing of a man?

The kidney damage is assessed by measuring the kidney blood enzymes (BUN - blood urea nitrogen, and the CR - creatinine) abnormal elevations, without an ability to concentrate the urine (which is a measure of kidney function).

This high elevation building lot measures 20x72 meters with 20 meters of beachfront, is zoned residential, and read... See full listing

The city earned its nickname, The Mile High City, because its elevation (measured at the gold step on the state Capitol building) is one mile above sea level (5,280 ft / 1, 609 m).

This high elevation building lot measures 20x72 meters with 20 meters of beachfront, is zoned residential, and ready for you to build your dream home.

The action proved lots of fun thanks to the interesting route which included a tight chicane in the middle of a small town, some tricky S bends complete with elevation changes and even a bridge crossing or two for good measure.

The dimensions of such a museum, in a state of permanent reconfiguration and hybridization, are impossible to measure, far greater than its actual floor plan or elevation, being at any one time a gallery, a laboratory, a studio, a workshop, an academy, a theater, a fiction.

[Response: They measure something different (MSU - TLT is a weighted average of temperatures reaching from the surface to 10 km, peaking at around ~ 4 km and with significant influence from surface type depending on elevation and polar latitude).

Across south - eastern Australia, an elevation in the severity of weather conditions conducive to fire has been measured in recent decades.

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Aircraft use laser altimetry to measure changes in surface elevation.

Satellite radar altimetry, in which timing of a radar or laser beam return back to a satellite is used as a measure of surface elevation, enabled researchers to assess ice mass by examining elevation change over time.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

USDA's Snotel sites provide a good measure of low elevation snowfall and consequent snowmelt in May and June, but they have no sites in the area that retain snow into July.