Sentences with phrase «of radar data»

Rignot's team based their findings on a detailed analysis of radar data from two European Earth Remote Sensing satelllites, ERS - 1 and ERS - 2.

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While funds with small positions can fly under the radar, data from Britain's Financial Conduct Authority showed 10 investment managers had a position of more than 0.5 percent of Sainsbury's stock, the level at which it demands disclosure.

Like its predecessors, Pegasus ingests all of the data that self - driving cars generate from their camera, radar, and LiDAR sensors and quickly processes that data to create a map of the vehicle's surroundings.

In March 2014, the same month the plane disappeared during its flight, Reuters reported that military radar data suggested the plane was purposely flown hundreds of miles off the planned flight path.

As part of a larger CES launch, it's unveiling a Varia Vision headset that not only gives you vital cycling data (directions, notifications and performance), but teams up with the Varia rearview radar to warn about traffic behind you.

The software itself uses a combination of cameras, ultrasonic sensors, radar, and mapping data, which all feed into how the car handles itself and where it drives.

Prime Minister Najib Razak acknowledged Saturday that military radar and satellite data raised the possibility that the plane could have ended up somewhere in Indonesia, the southern Indian Ocean or along a vast arc of territory from northern Laos across western China to Central Asia.

Economic data has also come back on the radar of investors who are contending with the potential for inflation to hit the Fed's 2 % target range, raising the risk of the central bank leaning toward a more aggressive hiking trajectory.

To make sense of all of this data, a new onboard computer with over 40 times the computing power of the previous generation runs the new Tesla - developed neural net for vision, sonar and radar processing software.

Tesla was able to develop these improvements all in - house in the absence of MobileEye using improved «smart radar» technology and data collected through its fleet learning program.

Through the use of advanced radar technology combined with data collected from Tesla's Fleet Learning program, the vehicle is able to capture a continuous picture of the world and provide significant enhancements to emergency braking capabilities.

The extent and exact timeline of the Trump campaign's association with under - fire British data firm Cambridge Analytica remains hazy, but Trump's data operation has been on the radar of special counsel Robert Mueller.

AIM Photonics aims «to reduce energy consumption in data centers by supporting the replacement of copper wires with optical fiber; providing technology for optics in next generation (5G) wireless networks; helping develop the optical equivalent of radar which will facilitate the use of self - driving vehicles; and in partnership with the University of Rochester, the initiative is developing emerging optical sensors for medical and environmental applications,» the release explained.

«NWS research efforts are focused on doing a better job of assimilating our radar data with our observational data to improve our flash flood warning service.»

But Hayes presented newly analyzed data from August 2014, when Cassini looked at Kraken Mare, the moon's largest northern sea, in radar and infrared wavelengths within two hours of each other.

The radar team also plans to use the new data to probe the depths and compositions of some of Titan's small lakes for the first (and last) time, and look for further evidence of the evolving feature researchers have dubbed the «magic island.»

Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, principal investigator for radar instruments on both spacecraft, says «we will soon have an abundance of data.»

The cars use a suite of cameras, radar, and laser range finders to collect data on the surrounding environment and then feed the info to computers that have been able to make driving decisions just as well as humans.

Iain Coleman works for the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, where he uses data from spacecraft and radar networks to find out more about the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere.

The researchers combined the altimetry data with previous radar images of the region to make their discovery.

«So we were making these measurements while people were on the ground collecting the precipitation and getting radar data,» and together, they were able to paint a better picture of how what happened in the cloud influenced the rain or snow falling on the ground.

At the upper end of the radio spectrum come microwaves, used for data transmission, radar, and of course, cooking.

«The laser scanning data collected from selected points does give significantly more precise results than the satellite radar,» notes Christian Berger, co-author of the study and head of the research project on which Victor Odipo's doctoral thesis is based.

In an area of some nine square kilometres for which radar satellite data is available, they collected laser scanning data from more than 40 plots, and integrated this data into a model for calculating the biomass.

Modern radar mapping of Antarctica didn't begin in earnest until the 1990s, so pushing the data set back another two decades is a significant improvement, he says.

If visual data from satellites is combined with information from radar and LiDAR, (light detecting and ranging, which provides laser - measured data about 3 - D contours), Xiao explains, researchers can really hone prediction of some diseases down to a tree line.

These mobile, radar - equipped weather stations — along with weighted probes bearing anemometers, thermometers, and cameras that can be placed in a tornado's path — allow scientist chasers to gather valuable data on the formation and internal structure of twisters.

Instruments are now so precise that radar observations can spot a single bee at about 30 miles away, and scientists can combine thermal imaging cameras, acoustic monitoring devices and small portable radars with weather radar data to get a complete picture of a region's ecology.

Scientists using ice - penetrating radar data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Greenland Ice Sheet, opening a window on past climate conditions and the ice sheet's potentially perilous future.

«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.

«Novel data sources from the weather surveillance radar network and the eBird citizen science database enable development of a migration phenology index that can be used to answer this question in future studies.»

To gather other kinds of data, meanwhile, some technologies focus on alternate regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, for instance, radar.

The OU study conducted in the eastern United States uses two novel data sources, weather surveillance radar and eBird citizen science data, to build indices of bird migration timing.

It uses actual rainfall data, assembled within seconds of the rain falling, backed up by information from local radar on where the rain is moving, to provide flood forecasts within five minutes.

In the past, radar images of the majority of the world's volcanoes were only acquired a few times a year, but seismological data indicate that the duration of unrest before an eruption might be as short as only a few days.

While satellites have provided consistently good data for years, the next frontier in sea level rise measurement is a new type of radar that can capture a more crisp, higher - resolution picture of sea surface heights.

The relative thinness of the ice shell at the south pole could also allow a future space exploration mission to gather data, in particular using radar, which would be far more reliable and easy to obtain than with the 40 km thick ice shell initially calculated.

Radar satellites can detect the surface ripples produced by internal waves and the data collected allow researchers to calculate the speed of internal waves traveling below the surface.

Using satellite radar data, Tim Wright, a geophysicist at the University of Leeds in England, has pieced together exactly how the gap got started.

The team mapped rainfall between June and September 2011 and found that readings derived from cellular data tended to agree with those from the traditional combination of rain gauges and radar.

Weather radar data from southern Texas reveal the higher reflectivity of flying crop - eating moths (red).

And although many insect species are too small to be detected in Doppler radar data, researchers are finding new ways to extract the signals of insects and track their migrations as they happen.

Radar data helped locate an approximate position for its final resting spot — somewhere just within the rim of the large crater on the head of the duck - shaped comet, what was once known as landing site «B.» Holger Sierks, principal investigator for the orbiter's camera, was waiting for images to be downloaded to Earth tonight that he thought would contain the lander.

«If you take the DOW radars and airborne radar, boy, a lot of what we know about tornadoes today is pretty much from the data they collected.»

Coastal altimetry, which provides detailed wave and sea level data in the coastal zone captured by specialist instruments called radar altimeters on board satellites, is at the heart of the project and scientists from NOC have been at the cutting - edge of this technique.

Now researchers have built simulations of currents in the large seas in the moon's northern hemisphere, using maps created from radar data collected by the Cassini probe.

New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near Bayou Corne, La., that year.

Wurman's mobile - radar trucks have been the single largest source of data over the past decade, including the remarkable capture in 1999 of images of the most powerful wind ever logged: 301 miles per hour.

Based on radar data, it is likely that bits of the meteor reached the ground (these are called meteorites), Hankey said.

Together with an international team he has now developed a data analysis method which sharpens the focus of the radar's eyes.