Sentences with phrase «satellite imaging data»

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).

Not exact matches

ScanEagle can stay aloft for a full 24 hours relatively inexpensively, providing the kind of real - time imaging and mapping data coveted by climatologists, marine biologists, petroleum engineers and ship navigators that in the past have been largely left in the dark by a dearth of satellite coverage in the Arctic.

In 2009, she co-founded Skybox Imaging, a data and aerospace startup that designed, built, and launched the world's largest constellation of high resolution imaging sateImaging, a data and aerospace startup that designed, built, and launched the world's largest constellation of high resolution imaging sateimaging satellites.

Using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instruments aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, Hilker, Lyapustin and their colleagues developed a new method to detect and remove clouds and other sources of error in the data.

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.»

Using daily imagery obtained via the MODIS (Moderate - Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instruments on both NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, and combining that with data collected by the WFI (Wide - Field Imager) sensor on board the China — Brazil Earth Resources, or CBERS, satellite, INPE manages to issue every fortnight an assessment of areas at risk for deforestation.

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

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.

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.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

Orbiting instruments like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on the Aqua satellite, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite collect data on the color of the ocean.

For instance, ESA has an agreement to use imaging radar from two Canadian satellites, but that will produce far less data than Envisat.

To do so, Ichoku and his colleagues used satellite records from 2001 to 2014 — including data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission — to analyze the impact of fires on various water cycle indicators, namely soil moisture, precipitation, evapotranspiration and vegetation greenness.

The organization relies upon old maps drawn by experts for its habitat data, and it has not incorporated satellite and aerial imaging to better detect deforestation and encroaching human settlement.

Using the Carnegie Airborne Observatory's signature technique, called airborne laser - guided imaging spectroscopy, integrated with satellite imaging, and other geospatial data, Asner and his team were able to provide high - resolution maps of Sabah's forests.

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.

Ulvestad was involved in an experiment more than a decade ago in which a NASA communications satellite, TDRSS, was used to test the idea of doing radio astronomical imaging by combining data from space and ground radio telescopes.

The Canadian Ice Service detected the remote event within hours in near - real - time data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite.

Using monthly - averaged global satellite records from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP [5]-RRB- and the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in conjunction with Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) extended and reconstructed SST (ERSST) dataset [7] we have examined the reliability of long - term cloud measurements.

AER researches, develops and implements algorithms for analysis of imaging sensor data from environmental satellites in operational and semi-operational processing environments.

Both the vegetation index and chlorophyll concentration were calculated using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

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.

Alaska got California weather at the end of January, as displayed by a new map based on data by NASA's Terra satellite's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).

The map is based on data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

Scientists first noticed the data years ago amid satellite measurements collected by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument.

Pierre Potin, ESA's Manager of the Copernicus Sentinel - 1 Mission which was used in the study, said: «We will continue to use Sentinel - 1's all weather, day - night imaging capability to extend the long term climate data record from European satellites.»

This data set uses freely available satellite imagery, collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), which operates on NASA's Terra and Aqua (EOS PM) satellite platforms and views the entire Earth's surface every 1 to 2 days.

How the image was made: The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite collected the data.

The news of the browning of the Amazon basin was released yesterday, as a snapshot from a study of a decade's worth of data from 2 of NASA's orbiting satellites - known as MODIS (the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) and TRMM (the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission.

Palle and Laken 2013 combined two different sources of satellite — the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS ¬)-- ¬ data to provide a record of cloud cover.

NASA map shows temperature anomalies from March 13 - 19, 2012 as compared to the same eight day period during the past 12 years based on data captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite.

The Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) instrument on the Terra satellite has been in continuous operation for 13 years and thus provides an independent (and previously unutilized) cloud data set to investigate purported solar - cloud links.

The researchers combined these observations with data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the NASA Terra satellite.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.