Sentences with word «radiometry»

It is the work of commercial enterprises specializing in scientific instrumentation — Googling «ir radiometry company» returned nearly a million hits as of writing.

The Physikalisch - Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has now developed a mathematical procedure which yields clearly improved results and can be applied in numerous fields of radiometry and photometry.

One was from the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) instrument riding on NASA's TIMED satellite.

There remains an unresolved 4.5 W / m ^ 2 difference between the TIM and other space - borne radiometers, and this difference is being studied by the TSI and radiometry communities.»

ZSD can also be estimated from airborne or satellite radiometry, thus greatly increasing the geographic and temporal availability of water clarity observations.

Microwave radiometry data are used to construct brightness temperatures: an indication of the intensity of electromagnetic energy at a particular wavelength that filters up through the atmosphere and reaches the satellite's sensor.

In 11th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, pp. 171 - 176.

Xing, X., A. Morel, H. Claustre, D. Antoine, F. D'Ortenzio, A. Poteau, and A. Mignot (2011), Combined processing and mutual interpretation of radiometry and fluorimetry from autonomous profiling Bio-Argo floats: Chlorophyll a retrieval, J. Geophys.

Mallama et al cloud detector, using IR radiometry to monitor and document cloud cover automatically.

Endless forays must be made on all scientific fronts — geology, biology, paleontology, astronomy, chemistry, physics, meteorology, genetics, sedimentology, radiometry and the like — either to try to discredit evolution or to defend creation.

Another type of device, the maser (acronym for «microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation») has proved useful in such areas as radio astronomy, microwave radiometry, and long - distance communications.

Radiometry is a technique complementary to radar in which the instrument emits a signal and then detects that signal after it bounces off a surface.

Czekala, H., S. Crewell, C. Simmer, and A. Thiele, 2001: Discrimination of cloud and rain liquid water path by groundbased polarized microwave radiometry.