Sentences with phrase «satellite data research»

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Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate — on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.

These questions barely scratch the surface, because the complex interplay between general advancements of computational social science and hovering satellite topics like political bots will have an enormous impact on research and using data for policy.

RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

The research team used satellite data to analyse changes in global vegetation cover from 2000 to 2015 and link these to changes in the surface energy balance.

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

Atmospheric researcher Rolf Müller of the Jülich Research Centre in Germany points out that the correlation in the satellite data might be spurious, though he concedes that cosmic rays might play a small role.

Virendra Tiwari from the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad, India, and colleagues used gravity data from the GRACE satellite to monitor the loss of continental mass around the world since 2002.

«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.

But Jennifer Francis, a Rutgers University researcher who uses satellite data to study Arctic climate change, said she had questions about the research.

Nils Weidmann and Sebastian Schutte used two publicly available data collections for their research: The «Demographic and Health Survey» (DHS), as well as satellite data collected by the «Defense Meteorological Satellite Program» (DMSP).

«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.

Daily images from the company Planet enable research impossible to do with sparser or courser satellite data

The research team used long - term satellite tagging data from large tiger sharks and adult female loggerhead sea turtles, common prey of tiger sharks, to examine their movement patterns and evaluate if turtles modify their behaviors to reduce their chances of a shark attack when turtle and shark home ranges overlapped.

«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.

It operates a satellite ground station to acquire data from remote sensing satellites and processes the archived data to standard or value - added products for distribution and research.

Then the larger research team used data from the sensor onboard the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) to examine how the color of the lake water changed during those years — an indication of the concentration of the toxic blue - green algae present in HABs.

The study, published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, combines mental - health data from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) and Landsat 5 satellite data from July 2009 that analyzed how much vegetation was present in each of the SHOW census blocks.

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

The results now published in Environmental Research Letters seem to contradict the data from a satellite mission based on other measuring methods, which indicates a slight increase in mass in the glacier ice for an almost identical period of time.

To demonstrate MENNDL's versatility, the team applied the algorithm to several datasets, training networks to identify sub-cellular structures for medical research, classify satellite images with clouds, and categorize high - energy physics data.

Earth and environmental scientists have often had to rely on piloted aircraft and satellites to collect remote sensing data, platforms that have traditionally been controlled by large research organizations or regulatory agencies.

NASA last week abruptly decided to shut down a venerable research satellite that has been gathering critical global climate change data for a decade.

NOAA, NASA, EPA, and the U.S. Geological Survey announced, in April, a $ 3.6 million multi-agency research effort designed to be an early warning system for freshwater nuisance and toxic algal blooms by using satellites that can gather color data from freshwater bodies during scans of the Earth.

The data for this research was acquired from the TechDemoSat - 1 satellite, launched in 2014 by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd..

«But we do encourage space agencies and satellite groups to make sure that all data sets come as research - friendly, and with as much information on uncertainty, as possible.»

Published in their final form last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the maps draw on a variety of data sources, including satellite radar and aerial imagery, as well as special sonar data collected on ship expeditions to the front of the ice sheet.

Matei Georgescu, associate director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, explains that even though satellite - measured land surface temperatures may not be an ideal indicator, this limited data can still help answer research questions.

In October Steven Miller, a researcher in the marine meteorology division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, announced that he and his team had matched 1995 satellite data to a firsthand account from a British merchant ship, the SS Lima, and found a section of the Indian Ocean that glowed for three nights in a row.

The group is a part of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Atmospheric Research; the group works closely with the meteorological research and climate system research units, as well as the FMI satellite data centre in SoResearch; the group works closely with the meteorological research and climate system research units, as well as the FMI satellite data centre in Soresearch and climate system research units, as well as the FMI satellite data centre in Soresearch units, as well as the FMI satellite data centre in Sodankylä.

NOAA also operates the network of data buoys and satellites that provide vital information about the ocean waters, and initiates research projects to improve future climate forecasts.

Asner's flying laboratory, the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, was able to map carbon stocks that — together with satellite imaging and other geospatial data — will guide conservation efforts undertaken by the Sabah Forestry Department in Malaysian Borneo, the Southeast Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP), the PACOS Trust, BC Initiative and other organizations.

At UW — Madison, Holloway leads a research program in the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy and climate.

The Space Plasma Physics Research Programme carries out experimental research in space plasma physics using data from instruments on satellites, and in the future also on spaceResearch Programme carries out experimental research in space plasma physics using data from instruments on satellites, and in the future also on spaceresearch in space plasma physics using data from instruments on satellites, and in the future also on space probes.

The programme also carries out experimental research in space physics, utilising data from ground - based instruments at high latitudes, in co-ordination with measurements on national and international satellites.

He has now updated his research using data from previous studies that relied on satellite and aircraft measurements of emissions above oil and gas fields.

The research team that published last week's paper is now working to assess which of the potential methods of using satellite data would be most effective in assessing pH. «What we're currently working on is drilling down and seeing which methods perform well,» Jamie Shutler, a University of Exeter oceanographer who was involved with the research, said.

Using funding from the European Space Agency, the researchers, from Europe, the U.S. and India, concluded that using satellite data in this way may be «the most efficient way to monitor the ocean surface» — yet the «potential capabilities of space - based measurements» in ocean acidification research «remain largely untapped.»

A research team recently used NASA satellite data to determine how sunlight corresponded with stroke risk, and found that people who got less than the midpoint level of sun exposure were at a 60 percent increased risk for stroke.v

With each game an alternate history begins to be shaped and guided by the player's actions, building iconic rockets, probes, and satellites that transmit crucial scientific data back to your customisable Earth HQ, all the while researching, investing in, and bolstering your space flight capabilities.

The group, whose funders include the European Research Council, combs through data such as smartphone footage, satellite imagery, maps, and phone logs to create three - dimensional spatial maps of conflict sites, using architectural rendering software and other analytic tools.

http://humbabe.arc.nasa.gov/~fenton/ Note that this global warming as been studied by only one research team and presented in one article (to be compared to the thousands of articles studying climate trends on earth), based on partial satellite data, and there is a serious debate now amongst the planetologists community to determine if this is a persistent trend or if it will stop in a few years.

The models in the case of AGW, are a little more scientific than either approach /;, the variables can not all be counted for, but they do provide insights to the totality of the research, and the models, (and data fed into the models) satellite data and observations from researchers in the geographical areas affected by GW, agree more than do not, as long as the averages are taken into account.

Data flow in from satellite surveys and research projects on dozens of glaciers in 30 countries.

Just in case you needed more reasons to be concerned about the stability of the Middle East, new research using data from NASA's gravity - sensing Grace satellites shows a substantial decline in the volume of groundwater reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins.

Some programs were huge, mobilizing cooperation among a dozen or more nations to provide data from weather stations, research ships, and (by far the most expensive) satellites to monitor temperatures, clouds, ocean currents, ice sheets and more.

The research, published by University of Maryland scientists in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment, is based on 30 - meter resolution NASA satellite data, providing the highest - resolution map of 1990 forest cover ever developed.

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Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in the United Kingdom report in the journal Nature Plants that a match of satellite data, computer simulations and research on the ground shows that — even under severe climate change — coffee growers could relocate to higher ground, while those who could not do that could diversify to take advantage of the changing conditions.

New research shows the extent and development of «the Blob» using satellite surface temperature data to reveal warm temperature anomalies appearing as early as March 2014 in the central and southern California coast, and eventually extending to the entire West Coast and dissipating in August 2016.