Sentences with phrase «moderate resolution»

Mapping daily snow / ice shortwave broadband albedo from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): The improved direct retrieval algorithm and validation with Greenland in situ measurement.

We present a method to measure the metallicity of mid - to late - M dwarfs from moderate resolution (R ~ 2000) K - band (2.2 microns) spectra.

Try this one: «Development of methods for mapping global snow cover using moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer data».

Sea ice remained more prevalent in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, though by mid-August, substantial break - up in the Beaufort was apparent in Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) imagery (Figure 8).

Coincident cloud and surface flux retrievals from the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, respectively, as well as ground - based observations at 11 stations across the plateau are used to examine the spatial and seasonal variability of this sensitivity over the entire plateau.

On January 10, the Aqua satellite, outfitted with NASA's climate - monitoring Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), turned to the North China Plain; what it found was darn right ghastly, says NASA:

As I remember, even moderate resolution band models are too computationally intensive for a GCM.

An efficient low resolution and moderate resolution spectrograph for the Hale telescope.

They also employed Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectoradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites to map the carbon densities.

We extend the previous GACP dataset by four years through the end of 2009 using NOAA - 17 and -18 AVHRR radiances recalibrated against MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) radiance data, thereby making the GACP record almost three decades long.

Characters in non-rendered cutscenes still move rather robotically, and textures remain at moderate resolutions.

Individual dust plumes from this source are clearly evident in MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) true color imagery (28), occur ≈ 100 times per year, average 370 km × 700 km in area, carry 700,000 tons of sediment, and are responsible for up to 40 % of the Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) over the equatorial Atlantic and Amazon basin (12).

Or, scientists could use the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, which does collect data over the North Pole and thus has no pole hole.

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.

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

The third Wide Angle Camera captures moderate resolution images using filters to provide information about the properties and color of the lunar surface.

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.

NASA collects surface temperature measurements with an instrument known as MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on two satellites (Aqua and Terra), which orbit the Earth from north to south every day.

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.

Bloom of calcifying algae at the Barents Sea, documented by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA satellite AQUA.

The calving of the massive new iceberg was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite, and confirmed by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument on the joint NASA / NOAA Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership (Suomi - NPP) satellite.

A series of seven sharp images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite instrument, taken over 35 days, showed Larsen B splintering into hundreds of bergs on the order of 130 meters wide, 160 meters deep and a kilometer or more long.

The images were all taken with an instrument called the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS, one of six aboard Aqua.

NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural - color image with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, instrument on Dec. 5.

To track the greening of leaves, the researchers relied on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.

NASA's Aqua satellite collected this natural - color image with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, instrument on June 05, 2013.

To estimate the numbers and distribution of mule deer and mountain lions in Utah, Nevada and Arizona, David Stoner, a wildlife ecologist at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, used imagery of plant productivity from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, flown on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, plus radio - telemetry measurements of animal density and movements.

Orbiting instruments like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on the Aqua satellite, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite collect data on the color of the ocean.

MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is the key instrument aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, which provide images of the Earth's surface and cloud cover every two days.

But the sensor, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA's Aqua satellite, is several years beyond its design life.

The NASA dataset used in this study consists of a merging of CERES data and measurements from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, which flies on two of the same satellites as CERES — namely the Terra and Aqua satellites.

The eBird team will start by combining the bird sightings with remote sensing information from sources such as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS) on board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.

«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.

Alerted to the volcanic eruption by NASA's Rapid Response program for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments, Garvin and his colleagues directed satellites to observe the island as soon as the eruption ended.

The image is from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite.

The bottom picture shows the burned areas by enhancing near - infrared light seen by Terra's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).

To do so, Ichoku and his colleagues used satellite records from 2001 to 2014 — including data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission — to analyze the impact of fires on various water cycle indicators, namely soil moisture, precipitation, evapotranspiration and vegetation greenness.

Just hours after landfall, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite acquired a natural - color image that showed the western extent over the eastern tip of Cuba and the eastern-most extent over Puerto Rico.

Just hours after landfall, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite acquired this natural - color image.

This measure is developed from data produced by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a large dust storm sweeping across eastern China on March 12, 2010.

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.

[1][2](click for more detail) * green: black and organic carbon * red / orange: dust * white: sulfates * blue: sea salt Movie map of distribution of aerosol particles, based on data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer is the instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Dumazile on March 7 and showed a well - defined low - level center of circulation, and most of the clouds were pushed south of the center.

This image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Terra satellite owned by NASA.

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).

This instrument, a combination of a fixed - delay interferometer with a moderate resolution spectrometer, is completely different from current echelle spectrometers.