Sentences with phrase «new satellite imagery»

While a team of Russian scientists were drilling ice core samples from their Vostok base in Antarctica, new satellite imagery revealed the outline of a lake the size of New Jersey buried two miles underneath the ice.

Documenting past attacks has thus far relied on information from Amnesty International and media sources to acquire archived and new satellite imagery of attack areas.

The U.S. State Department made a «high - priority request for new satellite imagery,» according to a source there.

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Allen's move coincides with a surge of new businesses planning to sell internet access, Earth imagery, climate data and other services from networks of hundreds of satellites in low - altitude orbits ar...

As for Google Maps, it already gets high - quality satellite imagery from a company called DigitalGlobe, and as the Atlantic's Robinson Meyer points out, the two firms just signed a new multi-year agreement.

Cabinet reports reveal increased spending on sports every year while satellite imagery and state media show construction of new facilities as well as renovation of old gymnasiums and skate parks, according to Curtis Melvin, researcher at Johns Hopkins University's U.S. - Korea Institute.

Vandersat: The Dutch satellite imagery startup for agriculture partnered with Swiss Re in March 2018 to help create new parametric crop insurance products and work on Swiss Re's farm management software platform, opti - crop.

The organization's new Eyes on Darfur site collects recent satellite imagery of at - risk villages with detailed reports of the threats each faces.

Other new social media platforms, such as programs that allow volunteers to produce more detailed maps of disaster zones using donated satellite imagery or to match photos of lost pets to older images provided by their owners, also provide opportunities for people to help without putting themselves in harm's way, she says.

Researchers were astounded when, in the fall of 2007, they discovered that the year - round ice pack in the Arctic Ocean had lost some 20 percent of its mass in just two years, setting a new record low since satellite imagery began documenting the terrain in 1978.

Researchers picked apart satellite imagery from two New England forest ecosystems to get a better handle on exactly what factors influence the timing of the color changes of the autumn leaves

Its new Picture Navigation service enhances driving directions in partnership with Google Earth 3 - D satellite imagery.

In 2003 the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (now known as the National Geospatial - Intelligence Agency) began investing in a new company called Keyhole, which melded satellite imagery and photographs taken from aircraft into a three - dimensional tool for nuanced mapping of all kinds of terrain, including military areas and city sImagery and Mapping Agency (now known as the National Geospatial - Intelligence Agency) began investing in a new company called Keyhole, which melded satellite imagery and photographs taken from aircraft into a three - dimensional tool for nuanced mapping of all kinds of terrain, including military areas and city simagery and photographs taken from aircraft into a three - dimensional tool for nuanced mapping of all kinds of terrain, including military areas and city streets.

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

A space scientist at the University of Leicester, in collaboration with the New Zealand Defence Technology Agency and DMC International Imaging, has been trialling a concept for using satellite imagery to significantly improve the chances of locating ships and planes, such as the missing Malaysian flight MH370, lost at sea.

The team is now testing the concept, working on the automated detection of vessels within imagery provided from the NigeriaSat 2 and UK - DMC2 satellites by DMC International Imaging, and in cooperation with the New Zealand Defence Technology Agency, with the ultimate goal to develop a practical system based on the concept.

Combining a new database of Indonesian oil palm plantations with satellite imagery of deforestation, the investigators measured the amount of natural forest that was cleared in each of those plantations between 2000 and 2015.

By poring over NASA's satellite imagery, quantum processors could take a machine learning approach to uncover new patterns in how weather moves across the world over the course of weeks, months, or even years, he says.

Based on field observations, seismic shaking data, GPS measurements, and radar imagery from satellites, Hamling and his colleagues found that surface ruptures in the New Zealand quake were widely separated — in one case by more than 15 kilometers.

We can help you acquire new, high - resolution satellite imagery of any location on Earth by «tasking» the worlds most advanced commercial satellites specifically for your assignment.

The researchers produced the new estimate by comparing the earlier map to detailed Google Earth satellite imagery.

Eisen also noted a new effort underway using satellite imagery to help detect areas that might be at risk of dengue outbreaks.

Leveraging the popularity of Google Earth, a free software application run through Earth.Google.com that combines satellite imagery, maps and a powerful search engine, users will be able to use video clues to search all over the globe for a chance to win a brand new Mazda CX - 7.

As a citizen scientist, you explore the planet using satellite imagery to direct your rover to new locations, searching for new life - forms and anomalies.

Stearns became the first artist in residence at the company, which is working to create a constellation of Earth - observing satellites that the company hopes will generate imagery that will enable innovative new approaches to agriculture and environmental monitoring.

It is a dense and rich issue featuring among its many highlights exclusive photographic work by Dan Holdsworth, a visit to the workshop of sculptor and large scale levitation master Ron van der Ende, the eyebrow - raising imagery of Hong Kong illustrator Tore Cheung, a study of art inspired by maps, satellite pictures and geography, as well as a guide to one of the world's most vibrant art capitals: New York — which includes intense, intimate and candid interviews with the likes of Marina Abramovic, Grisha Bruskin, Gregory Crewdson and Robert Longo.

This time around, the scientists tapped the vastly improved satellite imagery from Google Earth, which covered more than 210,000 dryland sites, and ground data gathered by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network to carry out a new global analysis of dryland forest cover.

«State - of - the - art satellite imagery from the new Sentinel satellites from ESA confirmed the presence of melt lakes in winter.»

However as Mongabay points out, new satellite data shows that deforestation is again increasing and may be even higher than current imagery indicates.Brazil's deforestation - tracking satellite system shows that in March and April 2010 nearly double the amount of forest was cleared (103.5 square miles) over the same period last year.

Whether it comes from satellites, drones, a new construction blueprint overlaid on a map, or a low - flying plane, Aurora's solar design and sales process starts with imagery.