Sentences with phrase «of radar stations»

A 55,000 - tube monster coordinated the nation's missile defense in the 1960s, linking hundreds of radar stations into the first large - scale computer network.

Not exact matches

As an essential member of the Army's weapons maintenance team, the PATRIOT system repairer is primarily responsible for performing field level maintenance on the PATRIOT system, a combat missile system that features a phased array radar set and control station.

The 14E is responsible for operating and maintaining the five major parts of the Patriot Fire Control system: Radar Set, Engagement Control Station, Electronic Power Plant, Antenna Mast Group, and Battle Command Post.

A spokesperson for Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the chair of the site selection committee, (and also, incidentally, Cuomo's hand - picked head of the state Democratic Party and a longtime ally of the governor), said potentially closing the Amtrak station in Depew is something that's on the radar but it's not within the scope of the current study.

O'Keefe said the flood in the village shows the limits of flash flood forecasting, which relies on Doppler radar; rainfall measurements from ground stations, like the New York State Mesonet, a network of more than 120 weather stations across the state; and reports from ground observers.

IT»S A BIRD... This radar image of the Chinese Tiangong - 1 space station was recently captured by scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer FHR research institute.

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.

So instead of bouncing radar signals off aircraft, ADS - B uses GPS signals to continuously broadcast a plane's identity, ground position, altitude and velocity to networks of ground stations and other nearby aircraft.

«But above all, the method is of high potential for countries, where there are a few or no weather stations or rain radars, but a dense mobile radio network,» Harald Kunstmann says.

John Westbrook, a research meteorologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in College Station, Texas, has been using weather radar to follow insect flyways in the south - central United States.

The stations were located on the 45 - story Uni-Center in Cologne and the site of the Space Observation Radar TIRA at the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR in Wachtberg.

Given HAARP's main goal of studying how signals are reflected, in the hopes of improving long - range communications, the station fires a radar beam to excite a localized patch of the ionosphere and uses passive devices in Gakona and elsewhere to examine the effects.

But Avouac, Ampuero, and their colleagues used satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar data and a technique called back projection that takes advantage of the dense arrays of seismic stations in the United States, Europe, and Australia to track the progression of the earthquake, and found that it was quite contained at depth.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

Similar devices are found in mobile phone base - stations and radar systems, and will be required in large quantities in the construction of quantum computers.

On Antarctica's Ross Island, a short drive from the US McMurdo research station, high - tech radar antennas and other atmospheric instruments gaze skyward, gathering detailed measurements of West Antarctic clouds.

«Experts do not dismiss the possibility that the probe could have accidentally come under the impact of emissions [from a U.S. radar stationed on the Marshall Islands], whose megawatt impulse triggered the malfunctioning of on - board electronics,» the source said.

Finnish Meteorological Institute makes observations of the atmosphere, sea and space at over 400 stations around Finland, and using remote sensing instruments such as radars and satellites.

Management and directing work of the radar field station in southern Spain.

Its mission was to aid in the radar calibration process of U.S. Air Force radar stations by providing a calibration source in orbit.

Radar's adopted sister, SOKY, has taken over some of his station duties.

During No. 13 Radar Station's four years of operation there were up to 50 RAAF personnel stationed at Cape Otway.

To further expand your control you have to fly out to a new, unclaimed sector and plant either the cheap radar station which will naturally pick up any ships travelling through the sector, construct a mining platform above a planet that will grant you extra resources, or go all out with a military outpost, which costs a small fortune but will also grant control of all adjacent sectors as well.

While playing Far Cry 5 at a preview event in Livermore, California, the Ubisoft team stormed an enemy - held radar station at the crest of a hill.

The white radar domes, which distinguish Menwith Hill, are the focus of new photographic work by US artist Trevor Paglen (who we previously covered in a documentary), known for exploring the physical structures that house US intelligence operations: the black sites, drone bases, surveillance stations — the secretive places kept hidden from the public.

These remote radar stations are of little value, unless we fear Viking raiders or Chinese trying to escape to Alaska to escape the massive air and water pollution in China.

pinning the deterioration of the soil the radar station is built upon is a complete falsehood.

Like canaries in a coal mine, these early - warning radar stations are in fact giving us another kind of early warning.

Australian soldier Maurie Isenberg was stationed on one of the islands to man a radar station and spent his spare time fishing on the idyllic beaches.

Finnish Meteorological Institute makes observations of the atmosphere, sea and space at over 400 stations around Finland, and using remote sensing instruments such as radars and satellites.

Mr. Bussey has been featured on several news stations including KWGN News 2 to discuss breaking news on the Denver DUI testing scandal, KRDO News 13 to discuss possible DUI lab test tampering, and KOAA News 5 to discuss the use of laser gun technology for radar ticketing.

Operational Specialist (2007 to 2009) Global Command and Control Technical Expert assigned to the USS Curtis Wilber stationed in Yokosuka, Japan with oversight for the Naval Ships GCCS picture while out to sea monitoring air and surface radars in development of accurate surface picture.