Sentences with phrase «satellite images taken»

Insurance investigators uncovered fraud by a New Orleans couple after satellite images taken the day after Hurricane Katrina revealed that the damage to their house actually occurred after the hurricane.

But satellite images taken in late August show that up to 10 percent of the perennial sea ice has been fractured by summer storms.

Ikonos satellite images taken last month for the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation show that incursions by loggers are eating into some of the core butterfly roosting regions that Mexico pledged particularly to protect, according to a research team that posted images on NASA's Earth Observatory Web page tonight.

While at Arizona, Phillips developed image processing techniques that allowed her to compare satellite images taken at different times of the same geologic locations of two Jovian moons, Europa and Io.

The appearance and disappearance of circles was confirmed from satellite images taken 4 years apart (2004, 2008).

This week Time has an amazing feature showing time lapse satellite images taken from space document land - use changes over 30 or 40 years at significant locations around the world.

An international team of researchers analyzed the available data taken from all previous studies of the Southern Ocean, together with satellite images taken of the area, to quantify the amount of iron supplied to the surface waters of the Southern Ocean.

More than 2,800 Arctic tundra ponds in the northern region of Alaska's Barrow Peninsula were analyzed using historical photos and satellite images taken between 1948 and 2010.

The publicly available report also divides the Arctic Ocean into 12 regions, and calculates the changes in the dates of spring sea ice retreat and fall freeze - up from NASA satellite images taken between 1979 and 2013.

, the fourth storm of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, churns offshore in this satellite image taken on August 26.

Smoke spreads over the Pacific Ocean from wildfires raging in Southern California in this satellite image taken Sunday, Nov..

SCINTILLATING SWIRLS In a satellite image taken February 3, plankton blooms appear as green whorls in the Arabian Sea.

After providing some basic instructions, Tomnod serves up a satellite image taken between 2010 and 2011.

A satellite image taken on Aug. 9 and published by NASA Earth Observatory shows a nearly ice - free path from the North Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

If they succeed in building the span, and the 400 - plus kilometers of road that would go along with the project, it's not hard to imagine what a satellite image taken in 2047 would show.

Not exact matches

Satellite images, taken by the US Geological Survey and NASA Landsat 7 and 8 satellites and collected by the online lake reference site Lakepedia, show the drought's devastating impact on major lakes in California.

This Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, GOES East satellite image provided by NASA taken at 23:15 UTC, shows the eye of Hurricane Maria as it nears Dominica.

Horodyskyj brings together images and measurements from NASA's Landsat satellites with observations taken on long hikes around the edges of glacial lakes to advise the Nepalese government on how to address the threat.

The image was taken in 2002 by the Landsat 7 satellite.

«You can't just take a satellite image and just shove it into the model.»

MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, took a black - and - white image from a distance of 61 million miles (98 million kilometers) as part of a campaign to search for natural satellites of the planet.

And then I would hand off the rest of the money to NASA, which would need about one - thousandth of that to build satellites that could go out and take images of the planets to see if they really are habitable.

A series of seven sharp images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite instrument, taken over 35 days, showed Larsen B splintering into hundreds of bergs on the order of 130 meters wide, 160 meters deep and a kilometer or more long.

The Larsen Inlet ice shelf, a 350 - square - kilometer slab north of Larsen A, was present in a satellite photograph taken in 1986, but by the time another image was made in 1988, most of it was missing.

The highest - resolution satellite images ever taken of that region are making their debut.

To the left, taken Dec. 5, the Multi Spectral Imager on the European Space Agency's Sentinel - 2 satellite collected data to build a false - color image of the burn scar in Ventura County.

Some existing satellite technology can provide images with such resolution, but they take longer to obtain (Landsat provides images every 16 days) and are too expensive, because they are commercial ventures.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

Scientific American reconstructed this rotation of Earth from images taken by the high - resolution EPIC camera onboard the satellite DISCOVR.

This open - access technology combines satellite images with even better pictures taken from planes and on the ground.

The streamlined geometry of conventional maps still comes in handy for straightforward navigation; you don't necessarily need a satellite image when you're just trying to figure out which exit to take off the turnpike.

In November 2014, Jansen assembled images of Larsen C taken by NASA's Landsat satellites and noticed something unusual: One of the cracks had spread past the suture zone and was more than halfway toward breaking off a large section of the ice shelf.

These two images, taken in 2006 [left] and 2009 by the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite, show the rapid loss of water in central Asia's Aral Sea, which is shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

This gallery features beautiful and fascinating images of volcanoes and eruptions taken from satellites orbiting our planet.

The images at right of Earth's aurora borealis — the shimmering lights created by particles of solar wind crashing into the polar atmosphere — were taken on April 9 by the UltraViolet Imager, an instrument on board nasa's polar satellite.

Although these first images are smudgy, the technique could provide advance warning that solar flares and storms will take aim at Earth — warnings that could help electrical utilities or satellite operators plan for possible disruptions and put key instruments into a safe mode, says Ernest Hildner, director of the Space Environment Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

Next summer Jessup plans to analyze infrared images of the ocean taken from a NASA satellite.

It takes the picture from a fuzzy, impressionist painting to perhaps a Polaroid — not as clearly resolved as today's satellite images, but a definite improvement.

Prior to the development of this new technology, researchers would have to compare several images taken during multiple satellite overpasses to estimate internal wave velocities.

The images, taken by NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite, offer a peek at a vast region of...

The Pentagon is developing these «automatic target recognition systems» to pinpoint tanks and other military targets automatically from images taken by spy satellites or aircraft.

Daytime satellite images, like this one of the border between rich and poor neighborhoods in Nairobi, do a better job of predicting poverty than images taken at night.

To solve these problem scientists are using satellite images that can take a picture of a large area at one moment in time.

Scientists were counting the tracks on images taken by a satellite orbiting Mars; but now, images from a rover have shown those counts to be wrong.

The international group of scientists requested that several satellites take images of the region to enable the systematic mapping of landslides.

Among them he found two images taken by one of the CIA's Corona satellites on October 29 and October 31, 1963.

Described in a research paper published in the journal «Geophysical Research Letters», the «smoke rings» were discovered by analysing sea level measurements taken from satellites together with sea surface temperature images from the same time and place.

Scambos and his colleagues analyzed five images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite before and after the Larsen B breakup as well as data from ICESat, which measures changes in elevation.

A preliminary study published this month in the International Journal of Remote Sensing, identified 54 satellites with 85 sensors, currently only taking images of land, which could be used to take images of Earth's oceans and inland waters.

Unlike today's spy satellites, which radio their images to Earth, the Corona satellites took pictures and sent the film home in small re-entry capsules.