Sentences with phrase «radiation sensors»

Some dogs are also outfitted with radiation sensors to map radiation levels in the exclusion zone.

«We have flown radiation sensors onboard 264 research flights at altitudes as high as 17.3 km (56,700 ft) from 2013 to 2017,» says Kent Tobiska, lead author of the paper and PI of the NASA - supported program Automated Radiation Measurements for Aerospace Safety (ARMAS).

Equinox Instruments Limited specialises in providing class leading instruments to its customers with a product portfolio that includes solar radiation sensors, compact weather stations, ultrasonic wind sensors, anemometers, wind vanes, sun tracking systems, scintillometers, sky radiometers, data loggers, temperature profilers, chart recorders, and data acquisition recorders.

In February astronomers released observations showing how intense those disturbances can be: A magnetar explosion in the constellation Sagittarius briefly outshone all the stars in our galaxy in gamma rays, overloading radiation sensors on more than a dozen spacecraft.

RadPiper employs a new «disc - collimated» radiation sensor invented at CMU.

Australian researchers at the University of Adelaide have developed a method for embedding light - emitting nanoparticles into glass without losing any of their unique properties — a major step towards «smart glass» applications such as 3D display screens or remote radiation sensors.

For sensors, you've got an optical heart rate sensor, 3 - axis accelerometer, gyrometer, GPS, ambient light sensor, skin temperature sensor, ultraviolet radiation sensor, capacitive sensor, galvanic skin response sensor, a microphone and a new addition of a barometer (for tracking flights of stairs climbed).

As winter digs in, the ice will become strong enough to support an automated meteorological station equipped with radiation sensors.

The output from these temperature sensors, and the solar radiation sensor, were recorded by a datalogger with one microvolt resolution.

To ensure that her measurements are accurate, Stautzebach must do daily rounds, dusting snow and breaking off ice crystals from 10 radiation sensors, two ventilated temperature sensors, two wind anemometers (one of them 10 meters above the ground), three humidity sensors, and snow depth and air pressure sensors — all located 200 meters from the station to avoid wind and shadow influences.

But as Resnikoff pointed out, many of the radiation sensors are located on the nuclear plant's site and may well have been damaged during or since the March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake.

A few other everyday applications using single crystals are semi-conductors, detectors, such as infrared or radiation sensors, and lasers.

When passing through the belt, the radiation sensors in the dummies will be on and will record readings during the passage.

Radiation experts will also be conducting checks on them to study their radiation levels, while some have special collars that are equipped with radiation sensors and GPS receivers to track down the radiation levels across the area.