Sentences with phrase «used satellite»

Speaking of which, since «An Inconvenient Truth» used the satellite image of hurricane Katrina as the single most scary image in that scare story of a wannabe documentary, will the sequel (there always has to be a sequel) contain a satellite image of the cloud free open ocean we've seen for most of the last two years?

[blockquote] The water vapour positive feedback theory has already been comprehensively disproven by independent investigations by Douglass, Lindzen, Paltridge and Spencer, inter alia (who used satellite data and radiosondes to reach their conclusions and showed that the posited feedbacks are either missing or negative).

The artist used satellite images from Google Earth to recreate old cityscapes that evoke urbanisation in his home country.

The expedition used satellite and microwave technology to deliver educational programs from Anacapa Island to over 1.6 million students and over 35,000 teachers in the United States and internationally.

Researchers from the Pacific Shorebird Migration Project, a joint initiative between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and PRBO Conservation Science, used satellite telemetry to follow the birds» migration.

Researchers recently used satellite data to track when, where and how often we turn on lights.

The scientists used satellite data that tracks minute changes in ice elevation from 2011 - 2016 to spot grounding line changes.

A 2014 study used satellite - linked tags to follow the dives of eight beaked whales off the southern California coast.

The researchers also used satellite data to record the total amount of CO2 released as a result of deforestation and wildfires over the study period.

The researchers used satellite data to record the number and regional spread wildfires in the Amazon from 2003 - 15.

In the project course «Computing for Good,» several dozen students, including Information Systems sophomore Xinwen Liu, used satellite imagery to detect illegal mines in the Congo, created apps to coordinate timely pickup of harvested crops in Colombia and designed an augmented reality system for farmers in Rwanda.

Previous research used satellite - based measurements of vegetation greenness to investigate changes in the Amazon rainforest, notably the effects of severe short - term droughts in 2005 and 2010.

Higgins and her colleagues used satellite - radar images to measure subsidence near the Yellow River delta.

When Ichoku used satellite data to match fire activity to hydrological indicators, a pattern emerged.

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.

They used satellite data from 2007 to 2010 to work out how land heights changed around the bay.

The team used satellite data to measure the speed of the glacier as part of US National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA studies.

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.

For example, in a paper published in Royal Society Open Science in November 2014, scientists led by anthropologist Robert Walker of the University of Missouri, Columbia, used satellite images to survey isolated groups in Brazil.

Scientists have used satellite pictures since 1979 to map the extent of such ice at its minimum, and the picture this year isn't pretty.

The team, led by Zhuyan Ouyang and Weihua Xu of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, used satellite imagery to examine changes across the panda's entire geographic range from 1976 to 2013.

They used a satellite instrument — the European Space Agency's SCIAMACHY — to get regional methane measurements over the entire United States.

This study used satellite data from 2003 to 2009.

[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 researchers used satellite observations including determinations of net primary production (NPP)-- the net production of organic matter from aqueous carbon dioxide (CO2) by phytoplankton — to drive their food - web - based model.

Scientists have used satellite - mounted sensors to indirectly measure vegetative growth around the globe for decades.

They used satellite data from 2007 to 2010 to work out how land heights changed in the Bay area at this time.

Scripps graduate student Kristina Pistone and climate scientists Ian Eisenman and Veerabhadran Ramanathan used satellite measurements to calculate Arctic albedo changes associated with the changing sea ice cover.

«In our study we used satellite data for sea ice and sea surface temperatures to run some coordinated hindcast experiments with five different atmospheric models,» Ogawa says.

Using these new parameters to time their observations, the scientists also used a satellite - based telescope to collect light data from the planet as it orbited closest to its star.

Co-author Fielding used satellite radar imagery to create a map of the terrain that dropped during the earthquake and where land surface had risen.

Local citizens can also help interpret data — as the Inuit did during an International Polar Year project that used satellite pictures of sea ice.

To study the Gorkha quake landslides, the scientists used their satellite - based findings plus media reports, eyewitness photography and field assessments from helicopters.

They then used the satellite record of Arctic sea ice extent to calculate the rates of sea ice loss and then projected those rates into the future, to estimate how much more the sea ice cover may shrink in approximately three polar bear generations, or 35 years.

The researchers used satellite data to determine particle levels and temperatures in every zip code in New England.

They also used satellite precipitation data to «backsolve» the brine's origins using sodium concentrations, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes, as the isotopic composition of water reflects the condensation temperature and precipitation rate over time.

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.

The researchers, including scientists from the University of Leeds and University College London, used satellite data to analyze changes in the surface elevation of glaciers all around the Antarctic coastline, from 2010 to 2016.

NOAA, in cooperation with NASA, used satellite data from April 2012 to April 2013 to generate a stunning series of animations and images depicting the annual cycle of green vegetation on Earth.

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.

Stressed trees no longer store as much CO2 The U.K. - Brazil research team that produced the new study used satellite measurements of dry season rainfall to estimate the magnitude of the two droughts over a study area of 5.3 million square kilometers in the southwest Amazon.

The study used satellite data to compare summertime changes in Greenland's albedo from 1981 to 2012.

Last month, the QUESS team reported that it had used the satellite to beam a pair of entangled photons to two ground stations spaced 1,200 kilometers apart2 — far exceeding an earlier record of 144 kilometers (ref.

To model how much of that pollution is coming from the fires, the researchers used satellite data from NASA to identify hotspots corresponding to active fires.

Researchers from Brown University have used satellite data to detect deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars.

These observational improvements also extend into space, all the way to the sun, where scientists have used satellite data to better understand the amount of solar energy — and its impact here on Earth.

In the United Kingdom, Seymour Laxon of University College London used satellite radar to study roughly half the permanent ice cover in the Arctic and found that it has thinned by 12 inches over the last eight years.

Then the team used satellite data to measure the boundaries of the peat.

The research team used satellite data to analyse changes in global vegetation cover from 2000 to 2015 and link these to changes in the surface energy balance.

He also said that Facebook used satellite imagery to create so - called «population maps» that the Red Cross can use to see heavily populated areas and more quickly determine who needs help.