Sentences with phrase «satellite imaging»

The new satellite imaging services are not there yet but that could change.

Of course, viewing a building via high - resolution satellite imaging is one thing.

The years 2007 — 2012 saw the six lowest levels since satellite imaging began in 1979.

Just two days after its announcement that Google plans to acquire satellite imaging company Skybox, Google is at it again.

Using advanced three - dimensional forest mapping data provided by the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO), integrated with satellite imaging data, the team was able to create a map of carbon density throughout the 128 million hectare (320 million acre) country of Peru, at a resolution of one hectare (2.5 acres).

With the advent of satellite imaging technology, such as that used by Google Maps, you may consider skipping this step, especially for remote land or foreign investments.

WWF tracked the illegal coffee from the park through export routes to multinational coffee companies using satellite imaging, interviews with coffee farmers and traders, and trade route monitoring.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) manages the images produced by NASA - built satellites in the Landsat program which has been imaging the Earth since 1972, much longer than any other civilian satellite imaging program.

Judging the severity of avian flu's spread from satellite imaging, for instance, requires knowing how likely certain areas are to keep domestic chickens and ducks — a practice more common in countries that consume more poultry, Xiao explains.

In humans, the most dramatic evidence comes from a September 2014 study in the journal Epidemiology, in which researchers examining data from the California Teachers Study found that women living in areas of California with the highest quintile of outdoor lighting, as measured by satellite imaging, have a significantly increased risk of developing breast cancer.

, a piece written by some Intel engineers about making games using Google's 3D satellite imaging app.

And earlier this year, Google shed its Terra Bella satellite imaging business.

Others are pursuing highly ambitious ideas across a variety of sectors, including satellite imaging, natural gas, semiconductors, and student loans.

Pioneering exploration of the wine producing potential of regions based on new technologies such as satellite imaging, soil mapping, and a better understanding of the role of «dirt and rocks» on expressive wines.

«We were able to document the leak from the Taylor platform because, during the BP spill, multiple satellite imaging systems were trained on that part of the Gulf on a daily basis,» he says.

Smartphones, cheap satellite imaging and crowdfunded enterprises have made citizen oversight possible that was undreamed of by past transparency advocates and environmentalists.

Using the latest in satellite imaging technology, a international team of scientists scoured Antarctica's frozen landscape for signs of Emperor penguin colonies.

Over the last decade Lay and his colleagues have been able to gather fine details about these giant earthquakes using data from an expanded global networks of seismometers, GPS stations, tsunami gauges, and new satellite imaging capabilities such as GRACE, InSAR, and LandSAT interferometry.

As modern civilization has become more dependent on continent - sized electric power distribution grids, global satellite communication and navigation systems, and military and civilian satellite imaging, it has become more susceptible to the effects of space weather.

Beginning in the late 1980's, INPE has sought to monitor Amazon forest cover via satellite imaging on a monthly basis.

World View also announced former satellite imaging executive Tom Ingersoll was appointed as executive chairman.

Purdy says that for maximum value, new satellite imaging services will have to, as he puts it, «switch on the record button and then archive the data.»

In early February, it made two major announcements: It had folded Landsat 8 and Sentinel - 2 data into its archive and it had initiated a deal to acquire Google's Terra Bella satellite imaging division and its seven SkySats, which have the capability to image at 0.7 meters.

You can put sensors into the soil, or you can do satellite imaging and mapping, but you never really know what a particular plant is detecting as the water potential.»

In announcing the award, Australian science minister Peter Cook noted that the work on mineral exploration had laid the foundation for use of satellite imaging techniques in a range of areas.

«These new underwater drones will greatly extend our reach to study remote areas, and also will allow us to sample and study oceanographic events and features we can see by remote satellite imaging, even when ships are not available.»

A new satellite imaging concept proposed by University of Leicester - led team could significantly reduce search areas for missing boats and planes.

A pioneer of space archaeology, she has earned acclaim for being among the first to apply satellite imaging to locate archaeological sites in Egypt.

Collaborating with Dr Anna Hogg from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at the University of Leeds, students will be analysing satellite imaging and sharing findings with other scientists.

A surveillance drone has detected on Thursday that the fracture in the crater of Bali's Mount Agung had widened since the last satellite imaging taken on Wednesday.

If you are not in the San Francisco area, then you can just pretend or follow along on your favorite satellite imaging website.

In this issue, learn about how NASA began watching Earth's weather and how satellite imaging of hurricanes has evolved over 60 - years.

The seafood industry is dark and dirty, fraught with corruption that is only just beginning to be revealed by persistent groups like Greenpeace, Global Fishing Watch, Oceana, and satellite imaging non-profit group called SkyTruth.

A new approach combined ground - based surveys with satellite imaging and yielded a higher density than anticipated

Clearly, high - resolution satellite imaging and a probe that circles Jupiter in a low polar orbit are needed.

Hyperspectral imaging is used today in everything from satellite imaging and energy monitoring to infrastructure and food safety inspections, but the technology's high cost has historically limited its use to industrial or commercial purposes.

Last year's third place finisher, satellite imaging company Skybox Imaging, reached an agreement with the search giant last August to be acquired for a whopping $ 500 million.

Hanke had been at Google (goog) since 2004, when the tech giant bought his digital mapping startup Keyhole and used its 3D satellite imaging to create Google Earth.

Here today at the annual meeting of the AAAS (which publishes Science), two researchers explained how remote sensing technology, including satellite imaging and drone flights, is revealing the traces of past civilizations that have been hiding in plain sight.

Technology such as satellite imaging has paved the way for sustainable forestry management, and has even allowed us to accurately count the trees covering our earth.

To perform this trick, you don't have to hack into the CIA's spy - satellite imaging system.

Smartphones, cheap satellite imaging and crowdfunded enterprises have made oversight possible that was undreamt of by past transparency advocates, environmentalists and other interested parties.

Using satellite imaging and drone reconnaissance, archaeologists from Washington University in St. Louis have discovered an ancient irrigation system that allowed a farming community in arid northwestern China to raise livestock and cultivate crops in one of the world's driest desert climates.

The new inventory of nearly 1,700 lakes in the two countries, done mostly by satellite imaging, will be tabled in Durban during 17th conference of the parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban.

He realized his expertise in satellite imaging could help find out where landslides had happened, especially in remote mountain villages far from population centers.

That precision is unlike any other option on the market for leak detection, such as aerial surveys, human patrols or satellite imaging, which are unreliable at catching small leaks.