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Other companies are taking advantage of lower - cost launch services offered by companies like Virgin Galactic and SpaceX to send up constellations of imaging satellites.

Not exact matches

Skybox Imaging, based in Mountain View, Calif., makes satellites similar to those of Planet Labs, though they are significantly larger.

ScanEagle can stay aloft for a full 24 hours relatively inexpensively, providing the kind of real - time imaging and mapping data coveted by climatologists, marine biologists, petroleum engineers and ship navigators that in the past have been largely left in the dark by a dearth of satellite coverage in the Arctic.

In 2009, she co-founded Skybox Imaging, a data and aerospace startup that designed, built, and launched the world's largest constellation of high resolution imaging sateImaging, a data and aerospace startup that designed, built, and launched the world's largest constellation of high resolution imaging sateimaging satellites.

Others are pursuing highly ambitious ideas across a variety of sectors, including satellite imaging, natural gas, semiconductors, and student loans.

However, despite a lack of confirmation, it is known that riding along with the imaging satellite are two highly significant prototype satellites, built by SpaceX itself.

Pioneering exploration of the wine producing potential of regions based on new technologies such as satellite imaging, soil mapping, and a better understanding of the role of «dirt and rocks» on expressive wines.

The candidates learn about products such as Google Earth, a satellite imaging program; get an introduction to what's referred to as the company's Googley culture; and discuss a wide range of topics (atheism, Russian relations, Internet access in Africa) in hour - long sessions that can seem a long way from Iowa and New Hampshire.

Since then, many far more sophisticated imaging satellites have gone up, providing scientists with a wealth of information.

But it could later switch to satellites like the 28 imaging cubesats that the firm Planet Labs of San Francisco already has in orbit.

Planet Labs ultimately wants a fleet of 100 of the tiny satellites — enough to refresh its imagery of the entire planet once a day, says Arin Jumpasut, a Planet Labs imaging engineer.

«So a large group of people who would have been in robot vision work or remote sensors, like satellites, are finding a very happy home in neuroscience imaging.»

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.

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.

Even as UrtheCast released its videos of major world cities, BlackSky Global announced its plan for a constellation of 60 low - flying imaging satellites, with the first to be launched next year.

The craft is outfitted with a 65 - pound solid - state imaging system for the first multispectrum views of the satellite and clearer views of the poles and the far side.

Here today at the annual meeting of the AAAS (which publishes Science), two researchers explained how remote sensing technology, including satellite imaging and drone flights, is revealing the traces of past civilizations that have been hiding in plain sight.

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.

Using daily imagery obtained via the MODIS (Moderate - Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instruments on both NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, and combining that with data collected by the WFI (Wide - Field Imager) sensor on board the China — Brazil Earth Resources, or CBERS, satellite, INPE manages to issue every fortnight an assessment of areas at risk for deforestation.

Using advanced three - dimensional forest mapping data provided by the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO), integrated with satellite imaging data, the team was able to create a map of carbon density throughout the 128 million hectare (320 million acre) country of Peru, at a resolution of one hectare (2.5 acres).

«GeoEye - 1 will have the best accuracy and resolution of any commercial imaging satellite in the world when it goes up,» says Bill Schuster, GeoEye's CEO.

Then the larger research team used data from the sensor onboard the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) to examine how the color of the lake water changed during those years — an indication of the concentration of the toxic blue - green algae present in HABs.

IRAN Last year Iran reported the successful launch of its first imaging satellite, Rasad - 1, and the country does not want for motivation.

Meanwhile, Skybox Imaging, a satellite company created by former students of Twiggs, was recently bought by Google for $ 500 million.

Many parts of the world completely inaccessible to the mainland due to lack of or destruction of communication and transport links can be monitored in near real time through satellite imaging.

The omnipresence of satellite imaging can not be ignored.

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.

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.

Similar measurements are currently provided by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS); however, this instrument is on a satellite that is in low - earth orbit, which means it is unable to track changes in lightning activity over the lifetime of a storm.

The satellite — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), a new ultraviolet space telescope — will examine the chromosphere, a long - ignored layer of plasma beneath the corona, in unprecedented detail.

Scientists have identified each crater by using several different kinds of clues, such as pieces of iron - rich meteorite or satellite imaging.

In announcing the award, Australian science minister Peter Cook noted that the work on mineral exploration had laid the foundation for use of satellite imaging techniques in a range of areas.

The constellation of Earth - imaging satellites launched yesterday — 28 individual sputniks, called «Doves,» each about the size of its namesake and weighing in at a svelte five kilograms — is on its way to the International Space Station.

Unlike traditional Earth - imaging satellites, which cost millions to build and launch, each of Planet Labs» diminutive sky cameras, which in its predeployed state resembles a child's kaleidoscope, comes in at a fraction of that cost.

«We were able to document the leak from the Taylor platform because, during the BP spill, multiple satellite imaging systems were trained on that part of the Gulf on a daily basis,» he says.

Over the past two decades my company has used imaging radar satellites to map oil on the sea surface for 70 million square kilometres of ocean.

«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.

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.

A new satellite imaging concept proposed by University of Leicester - led team could significantly reduce search areas for missing boats and planes.

Smartphones, cheap satellite imaging and crowdfunded enterprises have made oversight possible that was undreamt of by past transparency advocates, environmentalists and other interested parties.

We found that upon closer observation that several of the species being preserved are under great commercial pressure for timber putting them at greater risk of extinction — observations that might be lost in high - level imaging such as those derived from satellites.»

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.

«It's very similar to satellite imaging of Earth from space — except from ships instead,» says Hogan, who unveiled the atlas last week at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria.

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.

That's the conclusion of a new study, which finds that, by failing to incorporate new technologies like satellite and aerial imaging, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species has misclassified the threats to hundreds of animals.

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.

Using satellite imaging and drone reconnaissance, archaeologists from Washington University in St. Louis have discovered an ancient irrigation system that allowed a farming community in arid northwestern China to raise livestock and cultivate crops in one of the world's driest desert climates.

He led the Galileo imaging investigations of Ida (resulting in the discovery of Dactyl, the first known satellite of an asteroid) and of the impact of Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 into Jupiter.

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.