Sentences with phrase «satellite radar mission»
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To get the biggest picture now available, Paolo and his colleagues stitched together satellite radar altimetry data from three consecutive and overlapping missions: the European Space Agency's (ESA's) ERS - 1 and ERS - 2 (which flew from 1991 to 2000 and 1995 to 2011, respectively), and ESA's ENVISAT mission, which collected data from 2002 to 2012.
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In the early 1990s the TOPEX (Topography Experiment for Ocean Circulation) / Poseidon satellite, a joint American - French mission, shot into orbit armed with radar altimeters to measure the height of the sea surface.
Other research measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research Initiative.
Says Mr. Partain: «One hour and forty - five minutes after the flight's last automated message, CloudSat, a NASA satellite mission that carries a nadir - looking 94 GHz cloud radar passed over the same MCS just to the west of your estimated flight track.
The tracked systems are matched to overpasses of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, and a composite picture of the evolution of various radar and lightning characteristics is built up.
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.
These missions - satellite radar altimetry projects overseen by the European Space Agency (ESA)- lasted from 1994 to 2012, providing the researchers plenty of data that could even be overlapped and compared to ensure an accurate assessment of ice shelf thickness for more than a decade.