Sentences with phrase «radar data mapping»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For six weeks the researchers collected radar data to map changes in ice shelf thickness to understand the processes that contribute to melting at its base.

Radar satellites supply the data used to map sea level and ocean currents.

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.

«It's sobering to think we have just a little bit more than half of Titan mapped now with Cassini radar, which is the highest resolution data,» he says.

When Anderson and Waters combined those readings with the radar data, they could chart maps of the electrical power flowing into and out of the ionosphere.

The UC Berkeley team used 19 years of satellite data to map ground deformation using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and measure creep along the southern end of the Hayward Fault, and found, surprisingly, that the creep didn't stop south of Fremont, the presumed southern end of the fault, but continued as far as the Calaveras Fault.

Published in their final form last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the maps draw on a variety of data sources, including satellite radar and aerial imagery, as well as special sonar data collected on ship expeditions to the front of the ice sheet.

Buler's lab group is processing the radar data for the project and mapping where the waterfowl are on the ground in relation to poultry farms.

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

Using information gathered by its newly engineered stereo camera, long - distance radar and digital mapping data from the navigation system, we spend almost an hour heading along a section of a six - lane autobahn, winding country roads and urban streets.

3D maps with terrain and building data are very cool features when you're on the showroom floor, and the weather forecasts with radar maps are also great eye candy.

The system has a full VGA high - resolution 8 - inch color display, uses navigation data stored on a built - in 60 GB hard disk drive (HDD) for impressively quick operation and includes AcuraLink Real - Time Traffic with Traffic Rerouting ™ along with the AcuraLink Real - Time Weather ™ with weather radar image maps.

The folks at Mercedes - Benz say that the upgraded radar and camera systems mean the new CLS has a better «view» of surrounding traffic, while using map and navigation data to calculate driving behaviour.

In total, there are numerous technologies on board that assist the Ioniq's self - driving process: three advanced radars, three forward - facing cameras, blind spot sensors, adaptive cruise control, HD mapping data, a GPS antenna, and a «smart cruise» radar that offers a 360 - degree vehicle monitoring service.

There's also the MyCadillac App that lets you remote start you CT6 from virtually anywhere (where there's cell phone service) as well as the unique Cadillac Super Cruise hands - free driving system that uses precision LiDAR mapping data, a state - of - the - art driver attention system, and a network of cameras and radar sensors.

The next year, Rignot and Mouginot published another comprehensive, high - resolution map of Greenland based in radar interferometry data from 2008 and 2009 showing that Greenland's 100 fastest glaciers drain 66 percent of the ice sheet area, and marine - terminating glaciers drain 88 percent of the ice sheet area (Rignot and Mouginot 2012).

The team then extrapolated these data over the varying landscape to produce a seamless map, using NASA imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, the QuikScat scatterometer satellite and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

The aquifer was discovered by analyzing data from a layering satellite, radar, and geological maps in partnership with Unesco.

In addition to polar research, he also contributed to the development of algorithms that were used to mosaic data for the near - global map of topography from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).

Aided by lidar, an aerial laser radar technology, cartographer Daniel Coe produced this ghostly blue map of data showing the historical paths of the Willamette River in Oregon, spanning 15,000 years.

Graphs, animated radar maps, extended forecasts, and even almanac data are all available here, so it's gorgeous and powerful at the same time.