Sentences with phrase «radar studies of»

Radar systems; radar equation and applications; multiple Doppler observation and processing; radar studies of mesoscale systems
«Radar studies of ice thickness and surface features at the mouths of ice streams D and E, Antarctica,» Antarctic Journal of the United States, XXVII (5) p. 47 - 49.
Retzlaff, R., and C.R. Bentley, Timing of stagnation of ice stream C, West Antarctica from short - pulse - radar studies of buried surface crevasses, Journal of Glaciology, Vol.
The Bell et al paper in Science Express this week (final version in Science) reporting on the surprising results from airborne ground - penetrating radar studies of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a great example.
This radar study of Venus made us rethink our theories of how our Solar System formed.

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Rather than relying on high - profile examples that everyone is writing about, such as Steve Jobs, consider case studies of other successful people who may be under the radar.
Hahad: The security community has not finished studying these exploits, and I suspect that as detailed analysis emerges, so will the discovery of existing compromised systems that were previously operating under the radar.
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.
Researchers have developed the first numerical polarimetric radar simulator to study and characterize the scattering of debris particles in tornadoes.
In the United Kingdom, Seymour Laxon of University College London used satellite radar to study roughly half the permanent ice cover in the Arctic and found that it has thinned by 12 inches over the last eight years.
And yet it's remarkable that we find such similar features on both worlds,» said Alex Hayes, a Cassini radar team associate at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and a co-author of the study.
What is clear is that any description of Titan's geological evolution needs to be able to explain how the canyons got there,» said Valerio Poggiali of the University of Rome, a Cassini radar team associate and lead author of the study.
Italian scientists recently combined ground - penetrating radar and electrical studies of the soil to spot buried anomalies that may represent earth about to give way.
«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.
Although Mercury's daytime temperatures exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit, radar studies indicate that the planet has vast deposits of ice within the perpetually dark, frigid craters at its poles.
Through ongoing studies into the structure of the Dead Sea's salt deposits and ground - penetrating radar studies to track incipient sinkholes, scientists can now identify the worst spots.
«This has been able to fly under the radar,» observes Gail Javitt, a lawyer with the Washington DC firm Sidley Austin, who has studied the regulation of genetic testing.
«IceBridge surveyed previously unexplored parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet and did it using state - of - the - art CReSIS radars,» said study co-author Mark Fahnestock, an IceBridge science team member and glaciologist from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF - GI).
«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
The OU study conducted in the eastern United States uses two novel data sources, weather surveillance radar and eBird citizen science data, to build indices of bird migration timing.
Our studies would require a range of technologies, such as acoustic echo sounders, a magnetometer, subbottom acoustic profilers, a ground - penetrating radar, devices to recover sediment cores, an underwater television camera and a set of GPS receivers to enable study teams to track their position with a resolution of less than a meter.
«Verification of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment2 is the largest and most ambitious attempt to study tornadoes in history and will involve more than 50 scientists and 40 research vehicles, including 10 mobile radars,» says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a sponsor along with the National Science Foundation and some nonprofit groups.
These recently released radar images were taken by the space shuttle Endeavour in 1994 as part of a geologic study of climate change in northwest China.
The study, conducted at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) at the University of Cambridge, used airborne radar measurements to reveal the lakes underneath the ice sheet.
«Studies conducted at the Universities of Guelph, Waterloo, and Western Ontario have demonstrated that deregulation has had an impact on the demographics of their enrolment,» according to Joel Duff, the Ontario chairperson of the CFS, such that «students from lower - income backgrounds have almost dropped off the radar screen.»
Further missions studied the Earth from above, such as one that used of a type of radar to probe below the surface — discovering ancient riverbeds beneath the Sahara Desert, for example.
The Biomass radar will still have to be turned off when it is over North America and Europe because it will interfere with systems used by the military to track objects in space, but forests there are relatively well studied; it's the swathes of forest in the tropics, Siberia, and China that will be the new satellite's main concern.
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.
A University of Oklahoma research team with the Advanced Radar Research Center has developed the first numerical polarimetric radar simulator to study and characterize scattering mechanisms of debris particles in tornaRadar Research Center has developed the first numerical polarimetric radar simulator to study and characterize scattering mechanisms of debris particles in tornaradar simulator to study and characterize scattering mechanisms of debris particles in tornadoes.
The physical excavation (video) of Silbury Hill, along with studies using ground - penetrating radar and seismic sonar equipment, has shown that there is not a single human bone in the mound.
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.
Godin and Zabotin plan to use an advanced research radar to study the atmospheric waves in more detail to better understand the behavior of the Ross Ice Shelf.
Detection of the falling meteor by Doppler weather radar allowed for rapid recovery so that scientists could study for the first time a primitive meteorite with little exposure to the elements, providing the most pristine look yet at the surface of primitive asteroids.
The Cyclops system not only would have enormous power for searching for extraterrestrial intelligence but also would be In extraordinary tool for radar studies If the bodies in the solar system, for traditional radio astronomy outside the solar system and for the tracking of pace vehicles to distances beyond the each of present receivers.
Radar is a powerful technique for studying an asteroid's size, shape, rotation, surface features and surface roughness, and for improving the calculation of asteroid orbits.
John Pickrell's description of the use of interferometric synthetic aperture radar to study earthquake zones was interesting (2 September, p...
Now only visible with satellite radar (see an image), the channels flowed intermittently from present - day Libya and Chad to the Mediterranean Sea, says Anne Osborne, a geochemist at the University of Bristol, UK, who led the new study.
The P - 3 Orion, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will carry IceBridge's most comprehensive instrument suite: a scanning laser altimeter that measures surface elevation, three types of radar systems to study ice layers and the bedrock underneath the ice sheet, a high - resolution camera to create color maps of polar ice, and infrared cameras to measure surface temperatures of sea and land ice.
The study, «SimRadar: A Polarimetric Radar Time - Series Simulator for Tornadic Debris Studies,» will be published in the May issue of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
Then a professor at Columbia University and a consultant for Bell Telephone Laboratories, Townes had transitioned from working on radar during World War II to using shorter wavelengths of light to study the energy states of molecules, a field called spectroscopy.
«We're the first to have developed a strategy using data assimilation to successfully forecast the evolution of magma overpressures beneath a volcano using combined ground deformation datasets measured by Global Navigation Satellite System (more commonly known as GPS) and satellite radar data,» explains Mary Grace Bato, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre) in France.
The study, titled «Ground - penetrating radar (GPR) detects fine roots of agricultural crops in the field,» also involved additional researchers from the Uvalde center, Texas A&M AgriLife centers in Amarillo and Weslaco, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma
UVALDE — A recent study led Texas A&M AgriLife Research has shown ground - penetrating radar, or GPR, may be effectively used in detecting the fine roots of plants, helping agricultural producers identify what crop varieties are best suited to their field conditions.
After World War II, some of the physicists and engineers that had worked on developing radar for wartime uses took up the study of radio astronomy.
«Lithium, long used in mental health as a highly effective mood stabiliser, has been on the radar as a potential disease modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease with positive evidence from preclinical studies and a number of small clinical trials.
Retzlaff, R., N. Lord, and C.R. Bentley, Airborne radar studies: ice streams A, B, and C, West Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, Vol.
In July, the Office of Naval Research made a survey in the waters off Virginia Beach, Virginia using ScanEagle UAVs to study the effect of oceanic and atmospheric changes on radar and radio waves, with the aim of improving military communications and the ability of radar to detect hostile craft..
In conjunction with other instruments, the GBT will be used for radar mapping studies of planets and moons within the Solar System.
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Because of this, they're much more likely to spend time studying and doing coursework; they're more engaged, feel supported and are and less likely to slip under the radar and drop out.
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