Sentences with phrase «radar data»

Scientists use satellite radar data to analyse changes and movements of sea ice.

New techniques used in this study allowed scientists to efficiently pick out these layers in radar data.

The next thing to do, he says, is get more radar data.

The F - 35, meanwhile, has unparalleled network and software capabilities that allow it to communicate with other aircraft and facilities on the ground and share radar data.

In the real world, volcanoes are much more messy and complicated, and the method would need to employ genuine GPS and satellite radar data.

The best map of Venus» surface, based on radar data from Magellan, is too low - resolution to show rocks or slopes that could topple a lander, says James Garvin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

Other researchers have fingered the giant volcano Maat Mons, shown here in an image made from radar data collected by the Magellan probe.

To track ocean storms and dangerous waves, the Navy uses radar data from satellites that estimate wind speed and wave height.

The best map of the planet's surface is based on radar data from Magellan a quarter century ago.

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.

An analysis of radar data led scientists to an unexpected discovery of two lakes located beneath 550 to 750 metres of ice underneath the Devon Ice Cap, one of the largest ice caps in the Canadian Arctic.

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.

According to the same article the Russians disputed the findings and offered alternate evidence using radar data which the JIT didn't consider in their findings.

The earlier radar data also revealed that Mercury spins on an axis almost perpendicular to the plane of its orbit, so that the planet does not have true seasons.

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.

Analysis of publicly available radar data led scientists to the unexpected discovery of the two lakes, located beneath 550 to 750 metres of ice in the Devon Ice Cap, one of the largest ice caps in the Canadian Arctic.

«Our study suggests that the microwave radar data at the Ku - band contains uniquely useful information on crop growth,» Guan says.

Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was analyzing radar data from the ISRO Oceansat - 2 satellite last week when he noticed that most of Greenland appeared to have undergone surface melting on July 12.

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

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.

A computer model and radar data show that one melting glacier the size of Uruguay could wreak havoc at the bottom of the world — and far beyond

The ice is frozen to the ground at the Devon Ice Cap, so there shouldn't be liquid water there,» said Anja Rutishauser, PhD student at the University of Alberta, who made the discovery while studying radar data from NASA to describe the geology surrounding the ice cap.

«I spent the next two weeks on my laptop trying to figure out how to pull in National Weather Service radar data to see if there was a way to solve this problem.

The raw radar data is from the National Weather Service.

The ice is frozen to the ground underneath that part of the Devon Ice Cap, so we didn't expect to find liquid water,» said Anja Rutishauser, PhD student at the University of Alberta, who made the discovery while studying airborne radar data acquired by NASA and The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) to describe the bedrock conditions underneath the Devon Ice Cap.

The Frontiers system, as well as being less accurate, typically takes 30 minutes to process the national radar data.

The improved radar data means we are unlikely to find any more such surprises lurking under Greenland's ice.

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.

Farmers could use similar radar data to track pests approaching fields.

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.

The findings suggest such radar data, if collected routinely from airborne systems or satellites, could at least in some cases foresee sinkholes before they happen, decreasing danger to people and property.

At the meeting, Frick and her colleagues described a new Web portal, called Surveillance Of Aeroecology using weather Radar, that makes using radar data much easier for biologists.

With a few strikes on her keyboard, Frick was able to call up daily radar data that covered a bat cave in Texas.

«Satellite radar data have given us a detailed picture of where natural seeps are concentrated across deep seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico,» said co-author Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer and professor at Florida State University.

But understanding more about how tornadoes form and how radar data can be better interpreted requires careful forensic detective work after the storms wreak their havoc.

Six days after its initial discovery, AWI scientists conducted a more detailed aerial survey of the circular feature in the ice shelf, taking photos and videos, and collecting laser altimeter and radar data mapping the feature's contours in detail.

Magellan spacecraft radar data enabled scientists to penetrate Venus» thick clouds and create simulated views of the surface.

This 3 - D simulated Flyby was created using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Precipitation Radar data from 1:25 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.

Using radar data received from National Air Traffic Services and noise data collected at noise monitoring terminals stationed around the airport, WebTrak displays a map of the region with flight details and the levels of noise generated by aircraft taking off and landing at the airport.

The precipitation over the same period from Seattle RainWatch (based on calibrated radar data) shows a profound rainshadow NE of the Olympics, but 1.5 - 2 inches along the western Cascade slopes.

Based in InSAR measurements acquired between 2007 and 2009 the mosaic was compiled from 900 satellite tracks and more than 3,000 radar data orbits.

Figure 3: Ice distribution along the Northern Sea Route based on QuikScat radar data provided by Son Nghiem (JPL) for September 29, 2009.

MacFarlane, S.F., K.F. Evans, and A.S. Ackerman, 2002: A Bayesian algorithm for the retrieval of liquid water cloud properties from microwave radiometer and millimeter radar data.

One tactic they will pursue this season, Franklin said, will be to feed live radar data from NOAA's «hurricane hunter» research aircraft into computer models to see how that improves the intensity forecasts.

Here is DP radar data over 22» of rain massive flooding.

Using a blend of rain gauges and nearby radar data, they estimate that 15.55 inches of rain fell during the 24 - hour period.

The physicists took data from their own Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX), a collaboration that measured radar data from Hurricanes Rita, Katrina and Ophelia, which caused massive devastation to the Gulf Coast of the US in 2005.