Sentences with phrase «resolution radar map»
A high - resolution radar map shows Thwaites Glacier's thinning ice shelf.
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«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.
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.
Although radar systems have been used in the past to provide high - resolution maps of Venus» surface, Venus Express is the first orbiting spacecraft to produce a map that hints at the chemical composition of the rocks.
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.
When the information is combined with information from the radar system and the high - resolution maps, the on - board computer knows the car's precise location.
See, instead of relying on cameras to detect the car's position, Ford's Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicles use the combination of high - resolution 3D maps, LiDAR, and radar to determine exactly where it is at.
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.