Sentences with phrase «satellite analysis of»

According to a recent WCS satellite analysis of the region, in 1984 there were an estimated 141 miles (228 km) of roads in Terney County (home of Sikhote - Alin Reserve), and in 2014 this had ballooned to an estimated 3,900 miles (6,278 km) of roads, nearly all of them built to facilitate logging.

The thick durable sea ice that routinely cloaked much of the Arctic Ocean in colder decades in the 20th century is increasingly relegated to a few clotted places along northern Canada and Greenland, according to the latest satellite analysis of the warming region.

Not exact matches

That turns out to be a generally useful capability, and a different part of the Map team is able to reuse that for a satellite - imagery analysis task where they wanted to find roof tops in the U.S. or around the world to estimate the location of solar panel installations on rooftops.

China still has a startling number of vacant real - estate developments, judging from new satellite analysis by DigitalGlobe and Business Insider.

The agency's trove of satellite data and analysis is the largest in the world and, critically, available freely on the internet for any scientist or interested person to access.

They know about ratings and «audience analysis»; they bounce their shows off satellites, and they are building CBN (Christian Broadcast Network) University, where believers will be taught the fundamentals of electronic journalism as well as a little theology.

Evidence collected also includes satellite images, communications from fighters, photos and videos including some images of bombs remnants, and analysis of samples.

The launch of the satellite Kwangmyongsong - 4 last February seems to back up Gortney's analysis.

«For the minister to achieve his vision of the UK as a «world leader» in satellites and the analysis of satellite data, we need to see such excitement extend across government,» MPs urged, «reflecting the range of uses of satellite applications, rather than simply being confined to the work of a single sector or agency.»

Amnesty International went on to issue a report that incorporated Simmons» data and analysis, along with eye witness reports and satellite imagery of possible mass graves.

Additionally, under the auspices of this project, the Program is continuing its work in the area of promoting the use of satellite imagery analysis as evidence in international litigation.

Recent regional scale analyses using satellite - based vegetation indices such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index have found extensive areas of dryland greening in areas of the Mediterranean, the Sahel, the Middle East and northern China, as well as greening trends in Mongolia and South America, according to the paper.

An analysis of high - resolution satellite imagery reveals that drylands globally have 40 to 47 percent more tree cover (an extra 467 million hectares) than reported in earlier estimates.

An analysis of records from NASA's Aqua satellite between 2003 and 2014 shows that spikes in maximum surface temperatures occurred in the tropical forests of Africa and South America and across much of Europe and Asia in 2010 and in Greenland in 2012.

According to analysis by Scott Tremaine at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the pull of the bulge shifts satellites» orbits over time.

A separate analysis of Israel was not possible since the Kyl - Bingaman Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 prohibits private companies from selling high - resolution satellite imagery of locations in Israel at better than 2.5 meter resolution.

«This paper is the perfect demonstration of how new and improved satellite datasets, coupled with new and improved data analysis techniques, allow us to identify even smaller pollutant sources and to quantify these emissions over the globe.»

«Just this year, more than 20 of these dwarf satellite galaxy candidates have been spotted, with 17 of those found in Dark Energy Survey data,» said Alex Drlica - Wagner of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, one of the leaders of the DES analysis.

The five - satellite THEMIS mission launched in 2007 and has provided a unique, long - term dataset that allowed Kavosi and Raeder to do robust statistical analysis of the occurrence of Kelvin - Helmholtz waves.

This type of analysis may be useful for future applications of using seismic records to track the strength of sea ice over large regions, which has been difficult to determine from satellite observations.»

An analysis of GPS satellite orbits hints that Earth is heavier than thought, perhaps due to a halo of dark matter.

«The Dark Energy Camera is a perfect instrument for discovering small satellite galaxies,» said Keith Bechtol of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, who helped lead the Dark Energy Survey analysis.

«You're firing an interceptor that costs tens of millions of dollars against a billion - dollar satellite,» says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense, space, and intelligence analysis firm.

«The large dark matter content of Milky Way satellite galaxies makes this a significant result for both astronomy and physics,» said Alex Drlica - Wagner of Fermilab, one of the leaders of the Dark Energy Survey analysis.

New analysis of satellite data, reported today in Science, shows that deforestation on the island is hurtling on faster even than a pessimistic projection made by the World Bank 2 years ago.

That's the conclusion of an analysis of satellite observations of more than 10,000 lakes in Siberia.

«Software can come in many different forms; it can simulate data, it can incorporate your algorithms, or it can be used for statistical analysis of your results — it's really a geomatics tool that can be used from end to end,» says Cannon, a professor of geomatics engineering at Calgary and an expert in the research and development of satellite navigation tools used by land, marine, and airborne vehicles.

One of the analysis results concerning the internal structure of the Moon based upon the seismic data indicates that the satellite is considered to consist mainly of two parts: the «core,» the inner portion made up of metal, and the «mantle,» the outer portion made up of rock.

New Scientist magazine reports that Jet Propulsion Lab researcher Adrian Stoica told a meeting in England last month that gait analysis from satellites should make it possible to identify people by their walk and because of the angle of the satellite you have a better chance of getting the image of the shadow than of the actual walk.

So in 2007 he started Forensic Weather Consultants, which offers meteorological snooping to local lawyers, providing expert analysis of weather data and satellite imagery.

The qualitative and quantitative analysis of satellite and aerial imagery is also included, as is data management and manipulation with GIS and cartography.

The campaign is supported by ground - based measurements at various stations, analysis of satellite data, and model calculations.

Comprehensive analysis of satellite weather data shows that these are indeed regions where significant reductions in storm activity are detected during the rainy season.

SpaceX, whose Falcon 9 rocket is set to carry TESS into space, had scrubbed the satellite's planned April 16 just hours before liftoff, saying it needed to do more analysis of the rocket's guidance, navigation and control systems.

Planetary scientists hope that analysis of Phobos's regolith will shed light on the nature of the satellite's deep interior because of the turnover between the surface and the interior over the eons.

A tweet from SpaceX, which operates the Falcon 9 rocket set to take the satellite to space, indicated that delays were required to conduct analysis of the rocket's guidance, navigation and control system.

For example, a monthly analysis of satellite images by the Brazilian nonprofit Imazon shows that in April 2015, more than twice as much forest had been cleared compared with the same month the previous year.

That is out of the range of the current search, which was determined by analysis of the satellite communication data and is being led by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB).

The Yale University - led analysis, which combined on - the - ground surveys with satellite data, shows «the overwhelming effect of humans across most of the world,» the authors wrote.

According to a NASA analysis of satellite data, the 2015 Arctic sea ice minimum extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space began.

Now, analyses of data gathered in 2006 by two satellites — one carrying a down - gazing camera and the other a gamma ray detector — as well as a ground - based lightning detector in North Carolina, reveal that these flashes start out, as does most lightning, as a small channel of charged particles within the storm cloud (golden zigzag line, left; lightning - generated radio waves are depicted as concentric rings).

With the help of satellite data, the new analysis looked at reefs on a much finer scale than did the effort in 1998, with a 64 times greater resolution.

Intriguingly, the results of their analysis appear to be inconsistent with deductions from the results of the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, the leading space mission probing the fundamental properties of the Universe.

Conventional analysis of satellite data can only detect clear - cut and burned areas, and has been unable to distinguish selective logging hidden by the rainforest's dense canopy.

After years of inferring the existence of ancient water from chemical analyses and satellite photos, this is by far the most direct proof that water once flowed on Mars.

Using many different types of analysis, they found that their model closely matched the satellite observations.

After NATO released satellite images that seemed to reveal a buildup of Russian forces along Ukrainian border towns, for example, a senior Russian military official disputed the allegation, but NATO's assessment was corroborated by the AAAS analysis.

Houghton says analysis of satellite data benefits from a close relationship with instrument development, and vice versa.

The study authors based their analysis on a combination of satellite observations of rainfall and vegetation and an atmospheric circulation model to track the movement of air masses.

The study is a «painstaking analysis» of the fragmented satellite record and shows some consistency between models and observations of clouds, says meteorologist Bjorn Stevens of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany.