Sentences with phrase «satellite imaging on»

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

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Stanford grads weren't far behind, with 32 startups on the list — including video streaming company Viki, satellite imaging company Skybox, mobile startup Karma Science, student loan refinancing company SoFi, and genetic testing startup Counsyl.

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.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image in 2008 over the Pacific Ocean.

NASA collects surface temperature measurements with an instrument known as MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on two satellites (Aqua and Terra), which orbit the Earth from north to south every day.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Hurricane Alex on Jan. 14 at 15:30 UTC (10:30 a.m. EST) in the central Atlantic Ocean.

Bloom of calcifying algae at the Barents Sea, documented by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA satellite AQUA.

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.»

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.

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.

The images were captured by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth.

Working with the Canadian Space Agency, GHGSat spent three years designing a satellite whose lightweight imaging spectrometer can focus on an area as small as 164 square feet.

NASA's Aqua satellite collected this natural - color image with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, instrument on June 05, 2013.

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.

Similar measurements are currently provided by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS); however, this instrument is on a satellite that is in low - earth orbit, which means it is unable to track changes in lightning activity over the lifetime of a storm.

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.

The constellation of Earth - imaging satellites launched yesterday — 28 individual sputniks, called «Doves,» each about the size of its namesake and weighing in at a svelte five kilograms — is on its way to the International Space Station.

MBRSC operates two DubaiSat Earth - imaging satellites, built with South Korea; an MBRSC team is going solo on a third imaging satellite called KhalifaSat, which is slated for a late 2017 launch from Japan aboard a Mitsubishi rocket.

«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.

Over the past two decades my company has used imaging radar satellites to map oil on the sea surface for 70 million square kilometres of ocean.

«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.

The team is now testing the concept, working on the automated detection of vessels within imagery provided from the NigeriaSat 2 and UK - DMC2 satellites by DMC International Imaging, and in cooperation with the New Zealand Defence Technology Agency, with the ultimate goal to develop a practical system based on the concept.

The image is from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite.

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 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a large dust storm sweeping across eastern China on March 12, 2010.

On March 12 at 10:50 a.m. EDT (1450 UTC) the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Storm 13P's cloud top temperatures in infrared light.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer is the instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Dumazile on March 7 and showed a well - defined low - level center of circulation, and most of the clouds were pushed south of the center.

Land surface temperatures (LSTs) in January 2014 over Australia monitored by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

HALCA, launched on Feb. 11 by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), is the first satellite designed for radio astronomy imaging.

The instruments also have the capability for imaging and spectroscopy in the wavelength... ▽ More AKARI, the first Japanese satellite dedicated to infrared astronomy, was launched on 2006 February 21, and started observations in May of the same year.

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.

This image is a composite made from pictures snapped by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

Prior to joining Education Northwest in 2007, Joy was the controller for Space Imaging, the nation's first commercial satellite provider of one - meter resolution imagery and worked closely on contracts for the Department of Defense.

Whether photographing secret military bases from fifty miles away, or imaging spy satellites in the heavens from earth, Paglen's photographs embody the limits of visibility, imposed both by the realities of physical distance and by informational obfuscation, that keep us as citizens from seeing and knowing these subjects on our own.

On January 10, the Aqua satellite, outfitted with NASA's climate - monitoring Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), turned to the North China Plain; what it found was darn right ghastly, says NASA:

The fire maps show the locations of actively burning fires around the world on a monthly basis, based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

This pair of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite use a combination of visible and infrared light to make floodwaters obvious.

acquired January 19, 2014 download large image (5 MB, JPEG, 4000 × 4000) acquired January 19, 2014 download GeoTIFF file (29 MB, TIFF) On January 19, 2014, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a bloom of microscopic organisms off the southeastern coast of BraziOn January 19, 2014, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a bloom of microscopic organisms off the southeastern coast of Brazion NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a bloom of microscopic organisms off the southeastern coast of Brazil.

This photo was taken on May 4, 2013 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite.

(Image Caption: The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this composite image of Antarctica's ice - covered landscape on January 27, 2009.

They also employed Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectoradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites to map the carbon densities.

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

The science team behind the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) on NASA's Terra satellite frequently publishes special images called stereo anaglyphs.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of the fires on June 29, 2012.

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.

On September 11, 2012, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of fires burning in Tomsk, a region of south central Siberia where severe wildfires have burned throughout the summeOn September 11, 2012, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of fires burning in Tomsk, a region of south central Siberia where severe wildfires have burned throughout the summeon NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of fires burning in Tomsk, a region of south central Siberia where severe wildfires have burned throughout the summer.

Sources such as the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on the Aura satellite, the Cloud - Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO), and the ground - based Aerosol Robotic Network (Aeronet) will be used, requiring the input of both the modeling and observational communities.

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).

It's not so difficult, only needs several satellites on high orbit, wideband imaging facilities installed with good temporal resolution and lots of surface based transmitters, operating in many narrow frequency bands, emitting a unique long period pseudorandom sequence in each band and at each transmitter.