Sentences with phrase «radar imaging»

The reflected signal was then received by the 100 - meter diameter dish of the GBT in a process known as bistatic radar imaging.

A billion kilometers away radar imaging by NASA's Cassini orbiter has uncovered wind - sculpted dunes of similar size and shape.

The Finnish Meteorological Institute has developed a method, based on coastal radar imaging, that makes it possible to track ice movement accurately.

Less than two weeks after the successful first launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket, SpaceX looks to continue its string of successful flights with the delivery of Spain's PAZ radar imaging satellite to a Sun - synchronous orbit.

LACROSSE / ONYX II Passing Through Draco (Radar Imaging Reconnaissance Satellite; USA 69), 2007.

Study: Radar imaging shows how the mountain collapsed after North Korea's most recent nuclear test As North Korea's president pledges to «denuclearize» the Korean peninsula, an international team of scientists is publishing the most detailed view yet of the site of the country's latest and largest underground nuclear test on Sept. 3, 2017.

A recent study validated the previous ban on flights; stating that volcanic ash particles can be harmful to aircraft engines and thus put the crew and passengers in danger; however, better radar imaging, better preparation, and more knowledge should mean far less disruption than last year.

The launch was primarily designed to bring the PAZ satellite to orbit (which was deployed as planned into a low Earth, sun - synchronous polar orbit), a satellite for a Spanish customer that's designed to provide geocommunications and radar imaging for both government and private commercial customers.

Radar imaging can overcome this barrier because it beams a radio signal toward Earth's surface and receives a return signal, rather than relying on optical light reflected from the terrestrial surface.

Sentinel - 1 is a radar imaging system capable of acquiring images regardless of cloud cover, and throughout the current winter period of polar darkness.

Concurrently with the radar imaging, the scientists also used the radar transmitter at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and a portion of the antennas that are part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to perform an observation known as radar speckle tracking.

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The radar imaging system used by Envisat and other satellites is particularly suited to observe polar areas, as it can acquire images through cloud or fog, and night and day.