Sentences with phrase «monitoring from space»

That workshop is expected to result in recommendations for both weather and climate monitoring from space being forwarded to the appropriate levels of WMO, the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS), and CEOS.

In the future, it is through effective international cooperation and global partnerships that useful climate monitoring from space will be realized.

In what amounted to a full endorsement of EDF's project, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Thursday, «To address the problem of finding leaks around the world, a recent report from the National Academy of Sciences called for methane monitoring from space, where international access is not a problem.»

Launched in 1978, the Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS - N) yielded the first monitoring from space of snow on land surfaces (Dozier et al., 1981).

Satellites can help deliver such information, and in 10 years» time, global biodiversity monitoring from space could be a reality, but only if ecologists and space agencies agree on a priority list of satellite - based data that is essential for tracking changes in biodiversity.

«New calculations to improve carbon dioxide monitoring from space.»

The develpment and health of crops is monitored from space, as is damage to rangelands from erosion, over-grazing or fires.

... and there is a second impossibility compounding the first one: during the last few decades of accelerating global warming, the Sun has been very precisely monitored from space, and its brightness hasn't shown any discernable trend.

The number of cryospheric elements now routinely monitored from space is growing, and current satellites are now addressing one of the more challenging elements, variability of ice volume.

The total solar irradiance, monitored from space for the last three decades, reveals a well - established cycle of 0.08 % (cycle minimum to maximum) with no significant trend at cycle minima.

Not exact matches

So, we've have to have two spaces very separate from each other, two very separate clocks, clocking their time so that you are not the monitor of that.

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.

TESS will mostly search for planets elsewhere in the sky away from Proxima Centauri, near the ecliptic poles, regions directly above and below our solar system that are easy to continuously monitor with most space telescopes.

«Polar bears from space: Satellite imagery a promising tool to monitor arctic polar bears.»

The game controller - style joysticks and buttons allow the camera operator to change perspective within the virtual 3 - D space; move the camera down and tilt it up and the monitor displays a CGI character from below, just as if you were pointing a real camera at a real actor.

Scientists have monitored the progression of the rift throughout the last year was using data from the European Space Agency Sentinel - 1 satellites and thermal imagery from NASA's Landsat 8 spacecraft.

To monitor many stars and maximize its chances of finding Earths, Kepler is forced to monitor distant ones; any Earths it finds will most likely be about 300 light - years away, too far for any currently imaginable space telescopes to take a spectrum from.

The facility monitors signals being beamed from the space program's star performers, including the Mars rover Curiosity, the Cassini orbiter exploring Saturn and its neighborhood, and the Spitzer Space Telescope, which follows Earth around the sun, collecting information on stars and galaspace program's star performers, including the Mars rover Curiosity, the Cassini orbiter exploring Saturn and its neighborhood, and the Spitzer Space Telescope, which follows Earth around the sun, collecting information on stars and galaSpace Telescope, which follows Earth around the sun, collecting information on stars and galaxies.

Finally, they monitored weather conditions at the site, including the intensity of sunlight, the humidity and temperature of the air in the gap behind the slab (a space as much as 12 centimeters wide), and the humidity and air temperature 2 centimeters from the outer surface of the slab.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will monitor the landing of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko from their Year in Space Mission.

Even down on the Red Planet's surface, the Curiosity rover might be able to get in on the act: Because Mars's atmosphere has no ozone to block ultraviolet light, sensors on the rover will be able to detect those wavelengths and thereby monitor certain trace gases spewing from the comet — unless a dust storm blocks the view to space, Lemmon says.

However, officials with the Air Force's Joint Functional Component Command (JFCC) at the Joint Space Operations Center, which is monitoring the spacecraft, were unsure if the debris was from Progress 59 itself or the craft's upper - stage rocket body.

The European Space Agency is planning on launching the Atmospheric Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) within the next three years, which will be able to better detect both dark and visible lightning from space, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray deteSpace Agency is planning on launching the Atmospheric Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) within the next three years, which will be able to better detect both dark and visible lightning from space, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray deteSpace Interactions Monitor (ASIM) within the next three years, which will be able to better detect both dark and visible lightning from space, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray detespace, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray detector.

Space agencies continue to monitor the debris as new objects are added every few days (from launches, collisions, and explosions) and old junk falls back through the atmosphere, which happens about once a day.

The United States is on the verge of losing its ability to monitor phytoplankton activity in the world's oceans from space, the National Academy of Sciences said yesterday.

The flicker of X-rays from the odd binary system was monitored by a detector aboard the International Space Station.

That size cutoff is standard practice,» says Bruce Raup of the University of Colorado in Boulder, who is also director of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space project, an international glacier monitoring project.

NASA and its partners monitor Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground - based observation campaigns.

The annual data released Wednesday, which comes from Prodes, a monitoring system run by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, has far higher resolution, capturing cuts larger than about 12 to 15 acres in size.

A CubeSat's utility in space seems limited only by its size and the imagination of its designers and users — governments, universities and private companies increasingly rely on them for everything from broadband remote monitoring of Earth to performing on - orbit science experiments as well as test - flying novel propulsion and communications technologies.

NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground - based observation campaigns.

Then a postdoctoral scholar at Yale University, Boyajian had flagged inexplicable fluctuations of light from a star monitored by NASA's planet - hunting Kepler space telescope.

A wide range of smartphone apps could allow citizens to do everything from monitoring air and water quality to tracking ocean plankton populations from space.

Several ribbons in full - scale operation will open the heavens for solar satellites that can beam power back to Earth, large - scale zero - gravity manufacturing, space tourism, better global environmental monitoring, orbiting observatories, removal of man - made debris from Earth orbit, asteroid mining, and Mars - colonizing ships filled with hundreds of people.

The rest of the monitored space debris ranges in size from the size of a softball, to massive rocket bodies, all orbiting uncontrolled at relative speeds averaging about 22,300 mph in low - Earth orbit, where the majority of the objects reside.

NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites, as well as airborne and ground - based observation campaigns.

Joiner, who helped to develop the space - based method for monitoring plant fluorescence, is eager to take measurements using OCO - 2, the small footprint of which should allow researchers to detect fluorescence signals from plants in more fragmented landscapes such as Europe's.

Those missions include the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite to monitor Earth's ocean health and atmosphere in 2022; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 3 experiment that would track carbon - dioxide levels from the International Space Station; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) pathfinder Earth climate instrument for the ISS in 2020 time frame; and, finally, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a joint NASA - NOAA mission that is in orbit today and monitoring Earth from sSpace Station; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) pathfinder Earth climate instrument for the ISS in 2020 time frame; and, finally, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a joint NASA - NOAA mission that is in orbit today and monitoring Earth from sSpace Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a joint NASA - NOAA mission that is in orbit today and monitoring Earth from spacespace.

Air - monitoring devices were placed both in the center of the fourth - floor, open - plan office space, at least four meters away from any printers as well as outside the space on the same floor.

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working on FireSat, a thermal infrared sensor that could be attached to satellites around the globe, creating a constellation of coverage to monitor wildfire ignition from space.

«Satellites don't see mosquitoes per se,» says Assaf Anyamba of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, «However they provide us observation platforms from which to monitor the environmental variables that indicate where mosquito populations can flourish.

The data come from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York (GISS), which monitors global surface temperatures.

Researchers at the University of Exeter, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (Ifremer), the European Space Agency and a team of international collaborators are developing new methods that allow them to monitor the acidity of the oceans from sSpace Agency and a team of international collaborators are developing new methods that allow them to monitor the acidity of the oceans from spacespace.

His approach quantitatively images structures from the negative space excluded in the thermal random walk of a particle in an optical trap, monitored with laser light.

A warp in the fabric of space - time has caused a pulsar in a binary star system about 25,000 light - years from Earth to vanish, at least for now, according to a team of scientists who had been monitoring the star system for over five years.

Using funding from the European Space Agency, the researchers, from Europe, the U.S. and India, concluded that using satellite data in this way may be «the most efficient way to monitor the ocean surface» — yet the «potential capabilities of space - based measurements» in ocean acidification research «remain largely untapped.&rSpace Agency, the researchers, from Europe, the U.S. and India, concluded that using satellite data in this way may be «the most efficient way to monitor the ocean surface» — yet the «potential capabilities of space - based measurements» in ocean acidification research «remain largely untapped.&rspace - based measurements» in ocean acidification research «remain largely untapped.»

It also is the only satellite that can monitor the explosions in space across a broad range of wavelengths using multiple instruments before these powerful bursts fade from view.

Criminal groups make initial contact with potential victims through online dating sites and social networking sites, and will try to move the «relationship» away from monitored online space before defrauding people of what can amount to large sums of money.

Scientists monitor El Nino from land, sea and space, but still can not predict its disastrous winds.

This parking system incorporates a wide - view front and side monitor that draws from cameras in the front grille and under the passenger - side mirror to help the driver see unseen objects or obstacles, a benefit when parking or maneuvering in tight spaces.