Sentences with phrase «track using satellite»

The black - footed albatross is among the many marine species researchers have been able to track using satellite tags.

Not exact matches

He told them that the Mercedes could be tracked using a Mercedes satellite system.

Other companies combining satellites and data analytics include Digital Globe and Orbital Insight, but they use satellite imagery more than tracking data.

Tracking a pre-planned route from launch to target using Global Positioning Satellites and an internal navigation system, the missile is designed to strike with a 1,000 - pound penetrating warhead.

Your tracking device uses these satellites to triangulate its position.

Instead, active tracking systems make use of cellular networks or satellite systems to send the data to your computer.

The tracking technology is normally associated with criminals, but Mr Wicks attempted to draw comparisons with satellites used to monitor climate and traffic flow.

NOAA would receive an additional $ 50 million for research weather supercomputing infrastructure and for improvement of satellite ground services used in hurricane intensity and track prediction.

Morris uses the information she gathers on these trips to check the accuracy of data collected by a European satellite, Cryosat - 2, that tracks changes in the thickness of polar ice — information that tells scientists how quickly that ice is thawing.

NRL research staff members developed the concept of nuclear - powered submarines, the world's first satellite - tracking system, and the Deep Ocean Search System used to uncover the wreck of the Titanic, among other innovations.

They also need to learn how best to track desertification using satellite data.

Using satellite tracking technologies, they found that both individual paths and general routes of travel were often consistent across years, suggesting consistent cues or memories.

They used images from NOAA's Cloud - Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite to track the dust, and confirmed it was traveling all the way to California.

The researchers used remote - sensing data from satellites to track fires, which burn throughout the six - month harvesting season.

Since the 12 July 2017 breakaway Dr Anna Hogg, from the University of Leeds and Dr Hilmar Gudmundsson, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), have continued to track the iceberg — known as A68 — using the European Space Agency (ESA) and European Commission's Copernicus Sentinel - 1 satellite.

(The U.S. Air Force uses powerful radars to catalog and track most space debris to provide early warnings for astronauts and satellites, but Sprites are so small that they can slip through that surveillance unseen.)

The Ohio State University has partnered with the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota to turn images captured by DigitalGlobe's Worldview - 1 and 2 satellites into publicly available elevation maps that researchers can use to track the ice.

So using both land - use and temperature information from satellites, Xiao and his team could track the spread of the flu by estimating where the birds would be.

This type of analysis may be useful for future applications of using seismic records to track the strength of sea ice over large regions, which has been difficult to determine from satellite observations.»

To measure polar bears» energy expenditure during the summer months, Whiteman and his colleagues used satellite collars to track the movement of individual bears, both on shore and on ice.

To track the aerosols and conduct other related experiments, the researchers are using two research vessels, four research planes and ground - based instruments, as well as half a dozen satellites (see map below).

Using satellites and transmitters attached to the sea mammals, the scientists have been tracking Northern fur seals and endangered Steller sea lions (see image) in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea for almost a decade.

Gauthier Hulot of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and his colleagues used satellite data recorded 20 years apart to track changes in this field.

Many haulage companies track their lorries using satellites, and similar technology could eventually be applied to individual drivers.

To track ocean storms and dangerous waves, the Navy uses radar data from satellites that estimate wind speed and wave height.

Kohut is part of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System, which has been using satellite imagery to track the aftereffects of Hurricane Sandy.

Researchers used two methods to track groundwater levels, traditional water balance estimates — which take into account surface water inflow like rainfall and snow melt, soil moisture capacity and evapotranspiration — and data from NASA's twin satellite system called GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment).

He and co-author Shelley Kenner base much of their concern on a new model, and doubts about the earlier study, which tracked ground movement in the New Madrid area using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.

It also uses random number generator equations for timing signals, trigonometric equations to compute location, and special and general relativity for precise tracking of the satellites» motion under the Earth's gravity.

The bin Laden tracking idea began as a project in an undergraduate class on remote sensing that Gillespie, whose expertise is using remote sensing data from satellites to study ecosystems, taught in 2009.

To get a broader perspective, Scarla Weeks of the University of Cape Town, South Africa and colleagues tracked the gas from afar using satellite imagery.

But a new study, which uses satellite tracking data from more than 70,000 ships to create one of the most detailed global pictures to date, has come up with a much smaller range: between half and three - quarters of the world's seas.

Dubbed the first planetary meteorological satellite by mission scientists, Akatsuki was supposed to orbit Venus for 2 years, using its five cameras operating at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths to track clouds at different altitudes and watch for venusian lightning.

In 2004, Cifuolini and Erricos Pavlis of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, measured frame dragging by tracking the orbits of the LAGEOS and LAGEOS II satellites, simple reflectors launched in 1976 and 1992 and used primarily to monitor the motion of Earth's surface.

The Biomass radar will still have to be turned off when it is over North America and Europe because it will interfere with systems used by the military to track objects in space, but forests there are relatively well studied; it's the swathes of forest in the tropics, Siberia, and China that will be the new satellite's main concern.

Kelso notes that the creators of the CubeSat standard chose the 10 - centimeter unit size based largely on what the community understood the Pentagon's Space Surveillance Network could track — because knowing a satellite's location is key to using it.

«Time - reversed» light waves can be used to improve laser - beam quality, compensate for atmospheric turbulence, track a moving satellite, encode and decode messages and compare image patterns

Last week, Saudi authorities examined a Griffon vulture caught by an amateur, which local media had surmised was sent by the Israeli Mossad by virtue of its satellite tracking device, commonly used in research.

[Angel Hsu et al, Development: Mobilize citizens to track sustainability] It's the same team who previously used satellite derived estimates to point out that New Delhi has smog as bad or worse than Beijing.

The study, published in a recent issue of the journal Ecography, was accomplished using satellite - linked telemetry - tracked populations of polar bears in the Beaufort Sea and Hudson Bay.

Using computer programs, the scientists first tracked the «orbits» of the tiny satellites in the coils of the enzyme.

But Avouac, Ampuero, and their colleagues used satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar data and a technique called back projection that takes advantage of the dense arrays of seismic stations in the United States, Europe, and Australia to track the progression of the earthquake, and found that it was quite contained at depth.

In doing so, Walsh is reinventing the pioneering spirit, for she is one of hundreds of people using cheap, off - the - shelf satellite tracking equipment to make their own maps.

But to calculate that path it needed a methodology not used in aircraft tracking before, one that had to be peer reviewed for accuracy by a so - far unnamed rival satellite company, as well as by Boeing.

The researchers are now using satellites to track how pollution moves from one region to another.

Weisberg, along with study co-authors John Walsh, Distinguished University Professor of Biological Oceanography, and their research associates and colleagues at USF and at neighboring Florida Water Research Institute, have developed tools for observing, tracking and forecasting red tides using a combination of moored instrumentation, robotic gliders, satellite imagery and computer models.

The company's CEO, Bill Vass, says his submarines provide more precise data than satellites, which are used to track wind speeds, wave heights and algal blooms.

Using satellite imagery collected at UM's Center for Southeastern Tropical Remote Sensing (CSTARS), scientists were able to detect and track them from above.

Initially, we had the intention of using also a telescope in Chile (Cerro Tololo Observatory), but eventually it was used by LCO to track satellites and could not participate in the Red Dots campaign.

That extreme regularity makes them perfect navigation tools, on the same level as the atomic clocks used to keep GPS satellites on track.