Sentences with phrase «radar data from»

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.

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.

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.

Scientists from the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg Institute of Geography and from the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Gophysique de l'Environnement in Grenoble, France, used radar data from satellites such as ESA's Envisat and observations of ice thickness from airborne surveys in a complex model to demonstrate, for the first time, how the buttressing role of the ice shelves is being compromised as the shelves decline.

They used 15 years of satellite radar data from the European Earth Remote Sensing - 1 and -2, Canada's Radarsat - 1 and Japan's Advanced Land Observing satellites to reveal the pattern of ice sheet motion toward the sea.

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.

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

The subglacial lakes were accidentally discovered through the radar data from NASA.

«Radar data from NASA's Operation Ice Bridge program has told us a lot about the shape of Thwaites Glacier, but it's very difficult to see how water is moving.

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

The team used radar data from satellites, such as the European Space Agency's now - defunct Envisat, to study ground motions in the Taupo Volcanic Zone.

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

Not exact matches

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.

The raw radar data is from the National Weather Service.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ossmann found that using the radio to emit a high - power radar signal causes a reflector to wirelessly transmit the data from keystrokes, say, to an attacker.

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 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.

Radar and infrared data from TRMM showed that clouds within the two regions grew to similar sizes and heights.

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.

To get the biggest picture now available, Paolo and his colleagues stitched together satellite radar altimetry data from three consecutive and overlapping missions: the European Space Agency's (ESA's) ERS - 1 and ERS - 2 (which flew from 1991 to 2000 and 1995 to 2011, respectively), and ESA's ENVISAT mission, which collected data from 2002 to 2012.

«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.

The images are created by point data from aircraft equipped with LIDAR (think RADAR, but with lasers).

«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.»

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.

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.

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

Using data from Global Positioning System (GPS) stations and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images collected during successive satellite fly - overs, ASU researchers were able to measure changes in surface elevation during a time period spanning the main Gorkha event, and several major aftershocks, with centimeter accuracy.

«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.»

The data used in the study came from radar stations in Cleveland, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Green Bay, Wisconsin, collected in spring 2010 - 2013.

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.

EWeLiNE combines these data with other atmospheric observations — from ground - based weather stations, radar and satellites — and sophisticated computer models predict power generation over the next 48 hours or so.

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.

Forecasters rely on satellites for these situations and also rely on them to provide broader data that supplement the localized information from a given radar.

For instance, ESA has an agreement to use imaging radar from two Canadian satellites, but that will produce far less data than Envisat.

It is possible that sexually transmitted Ebola may have flown under the radar because there has been a dearth of data from outbreaks in years past.

The study used images and other data from Cassini's radar instrument, which can peer through the obscuring smog of Titan's atmosphere to reveal the surface in detail.

By stitching together data gathered by ice - penetrating radar equipment suspended from aircraft, researchers have discovered a massive canyon that has likely been hidden for millions of years.

Now, Gao Hu, from Nanjing Agricultural University in China, Chapman, and colleagues have surveyed data from 2000 to 2009 collected in Harpenden and two other U.K. radar sites.

An analysis of a decade's worth of data from radars specifically designed to track airborne insects has revealed unseen hordes crossing parts of the southern United Kingdom — 2 trillion to 5 trillion insects each year, amounting to several thousand tons of biomass, that may travel up to hundreds of kilometers a day.

These data were from an ice - penetrating radar instrument known as the Multichannel Coherent Depth Sounder / Imager, or MCoRDS / I, which is similar to the instrument IceBridge has used since 2009.

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.

An analysis of tornado signatures from the past 16 years — including data from the Ontario - Quebec VHF Windprofiler Radar Network — could mean faster, more accurate tornado prediction.

Data comes from various sources, including observations, weather stations at airports, Doppler radar and satellite imagery, National Weather Service bulletins, and even tidal gages.

The Hockings collected and analyzed 16 years of tornado data, including reports to Environment Canada from citizen observers, and correlated that with real - time and archived data from these radar arrays.

Based on field observations, seismic shaking data, GPS measurements, and radar imagery from satellites, Hamling and his colleagues found that surface ruptures in the New Zealand quake were widely separated — in one case by more than 15 kilometers.