Sentences with phrase «number of satellites used»

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Especially if you have a day job, it's probably unrealistic to find the time to pour over financial statements and speculate on earnings reports in hopes of competing with Wall Street analysts who use satellite images to count the number of cars in the parking lots of major retailers.

On the satellite trail, an inordinate number of players use oversized Prince rackets because, as with vitamins and religion, there is no evidence that they hurt you, and there remains the possibility they will help.

To secure the communication, a Chinese satellite distributed a quantum key, a secret string of numbers used to encrypt the video...

Exact numbers are a work in progress The scientists used a combination of surface elevation data from satellites and planes between 1978 and 2012 and a GPS network that weighs the ice sheet like a scale, according to Ohio State.

It also uses random number generator equations for timing signals, trigonometric equations to compute location, and special and general relativity for precise tracking of the satellites» motion under the Earth's gravity.

The study culminates many years of effort by an international team of scientists who have discovered a large number of the satellite galaxies, developed new techniques to measure their distances, and have used the Keck Observatory with colleagues to measure their radial velocities, or Doppler shifts (the speed of the galaxy relative to the Sun).

A number of existing satellites can be used for the task; these include the European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) sensor that was launched in 2009 and NASA's Aquarius satellite that was launched in 2011.

It was trialed on a number of vessels to get feedback on how it could be integrated, using existing systems and the limitations of satellite internet.

The number of in situ and satellite observations of cryospheric parameters has increased considerably since AR4 and the use of the new data in trend analyses, and also in process studies, has enabled increased confidence in the quantification of most of the changes... They reveal a general decline in all components of the cryosphere...

In a new study using 16 years of satellite data, NASA reveals that the number one spot gets almost 300 thunderstorms per year; these other hotspots are wild as well.

Any claim that a particular year had the largest number of named hurricanes is bogus, because we don't know how many hurricanes were undetected before the use of satellites.

Instead of the no feedback 1.2 number, Hansen / GISS use 5.35 and IPCC ~ 4.7, even though the satellite data indicates the number should be 1.2 or less due to negative feedbacks.

Say, for argument's sake, that I am giving a presentation about satellites, and I want to talk about the rocket launchers used to get satellites into Earth orbit and the amount of fuel they consume, and I want to talk about why this is a big number.

When one understands the huge number of cell towers, NEXRAD, and such devices as SBX1 and the use of microwave energy to manipulate entire weather systems, satellites, and others nations doing same, it stands to reason the atmosphere and all life on earth is run through and through with a technology that is slowly killing life.

One of the specificity of the C3S sea level products is the use of a steady number of altimeters (two) in the satellite constellation.

These are used to construct a number of candidate climate data records using measurements from 15 MSU and AMSU satellites.

The CLIVAR newsletter has a number of other interesting articles, on CFMIP (p20), the scenarios begin used (RCPs)(p12), the ESG data delivery system (p40), satellite comparisons (p46, and p47) and the carbon - cycle simulations (p27).

They are using the highest - resolution satellite images available to gauge the numbers of Northern Royal albatrosses.

I used 360 points on the X axis because this broadly corresponds to the number of months of satellite global mean temp data available (around 30 yrs times 12 mths), but this can be changed also.