Sentences with phrase «uses radar data»

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

The team used radar data from satellites, such as the European Space Agency's now - defunct Envisat, to study ground motions in the Taupo Volcanic Zone.

At the meeting, Frick and her colleagues described a new Web portal, called Surveillance Of Aeroecology using weather Radar, that makes using radar data much easier for biologists.

In their letter, they appear to advocate upgrading the recent El Reno tornado (and presumably others) using radar data.

Scientists from the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg Institute of Geography and from the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Gophysique de l'Environnement in Grenoble, France, used radar data from satellites such as ESA's Envisat and observations of ice thickness from airborne surveys in a complex model to demonstrate, for the first time, how the buttressing role of the ice shelves is being compromised as the shelves decline.

Not exact matches

The software itself uses a combination of cameras, ultrasonic sensors, radar, and mapping data, which all feed into how the car handles itself and where it drives.

Tesla was able to develop these improvements all in - house in the absence of MobileEye using improved «smart radar» technology and data collected through its fleet learning program.

Through the use of advanced radar technology combined with data collected from Tesla's Fleet Learning program, the vehicle is able to capture a continuous picture of the world and provide significant enhancements to emergency braking capabilities.

AIM Photonics aims «to reduce energy consumption in data centers by supporting the replacement of copper wires with optical fiber; providing technology for optics in next generation (5G) wireless networks; helping develop the optical equivalent of radar which will facilitate the use of self - driving vehicles; and in partnership with the University of Rochester, the initiative is developing emerging optical sensors for medical and environmental applications,» the release explained.

The radar team also plans to use the new data to probe the depths and compositions of some of Titan's small lakes for the first (and last) time, and look for further evidence of the evolving feature researchers have dubbed the «magic island.»

Ossmann found that using the radio to emit a high - power radar signal causes a reflector to wirelessly transmit the data from keystrokes, say, to an attacker.

The cars use a suite of cameras, radar, and laser range finders to collect data on the surrounding environment and then feed the info to computers that have been able to make driving decisions just as well as humans.

Iain Coleman works for the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, where he uses data from spacecraft and radar networks to find out more about the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere.

At the upper end of the radio spectrum come microwaves, used for data transmission, radar, and of course, cooking.

Scientists using ice - penetrating radar data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Greenland Ice Sheet, opening a window on past climate conditions and the ice sheet's potentially perilous future.

New techniques used in this study allowed scientists to efficiently pick out these layers in radar data.

«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.

«Novel data sources from the weather surveillance radar network and the eBird citizen science database enable development of a migration phenology index that can be used to answer this question in future studies.»

The OU study conducted in the eastern United States uses two novel data sources, weather surveillance radar and eBird citizen science data, to build indices of bird migration timing.

It uses actual rainfall data, assembled within seconds of the rain falling, backed up by information from local radar on where the rain is moving, to provide flood forecasts within five minutes.

The relative thinness of the ice shell at the south pole could also allow a future space exploration mission to gather data, in particular using radar, which would be far more reliable and easy to obtain than with the 40 km thick ice shell initially calculated.

Using satellite radar data, Tim Wright, a geophysicist at the University of Leeds in England, has pieced together exactly how the gap got started.

Modern weather radar contains even more information than 1995 systems did, he notes — and farmers can use that data to their advantage.

Farmers could use similar radar data to track pests approaching fields.

Weather radar — Doppler data that meteorologists use to follow rain, hail and snow in near real time — is beginning to help.

Using data from Global Positioning System (GPS) stations and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images collected during successive satellite fly - overs, ASU researchers were able to measure changes in surface elevation during a time period spanning the main Gorkha event, and several major aftershocks, with centimeter accuracy.

The data used in the study came from radar stations in Cleveland, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Green Bay, Wisconsin, collected in spring 2010 - 2013.

Radar satellites supply the data used to map sea level and ocean currents.

Now researchers have built simulations of currents in the large seas in the moon's northern hemisphere, using maps created from radar data collected by the Cassini probe.

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

The study used images and other data from Cassini's radar instrument, which can peer through the obscuring smog of Titan's atmosphere to reveal the surface in detail.

In the second report, researchers led by Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used remote sensing and radar data to calculate the glaciers» movement.

These data were from an ice - penetrating radar instrument known as the Multichannel Coherent Depth Sounder / Imager, or MCoRDS / I, which is similar to the instrument IceBridge has used since 2009.

The UC Berkeley team used 19 years of satellite data to map ground deformation using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and measure creep along the southern end of the Hayward Fault, and found, surprisingly, that the creep didn't stop south of Fremont, the presumed southern end of the fault, but continued as far as the Calaveras Fault.

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.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

«We're the first to have developed a strategy using data assimilation to successfully forecast the evolution of magma overpressures beneath a volcano using combined ground deformation datasets measured by Global Navigation Satellite System (more commonly known as GPS) and satellite radar data,» explains Mary Grace Bato, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre) in France.

Scientists using the data measured the density of the ionosphere from the change in the radar signal.

Finnish Meteorological Institute has been doing estimates of two essential sea ice parameters — namely, sea ice concentration (SIC) and sea ice thickness (SIT)-- for the Bohai Sea using a combination of a thermodynamic sea ice model and Earth observation (EO) data from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and microwave radiometer.

Horinouchi, T., 2002: Mesoscale variability of tropical precipitation: Validation of satellite estimates of wave forcing using TOGA COARE radar data.

This 3 - D simulated Flyby was created using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Precipitation Radar data from 1:25 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.

This data is used in conjunction with ultrasonic sensors, a forward - facing camera and forward radar to build up a clear picture of the road ahead, traffic conditions, surfaces and movement in all weathers and all levels of visibility.

The technology continuously monitors the object — and a central control unit uses the camera and radar data to evaluate the risk of a collision and to initiate the most efficient counteraction.

Rather than just tracking traffic in front of you, Porsche's system predictively optimizes the car's speed using high - resolution navigation data paired with various sensors including cameras and radar.

Using information gathered by its newly engineered stereo camera, long - distance radar and digital mapping data from the navigation system, we spend almost an hour heading along a section of a six - lane autobahn, winding country roads and urban streets.

The system has a full VGA high - resolution 8 - inch color display, uses navigation data stored on a built - in 60 GB hard disk drive (HDD) for impressively quick operation and includes AcuraLink Real - Time Traffic with Traffic Rerouting ™ along with the AcuraLink Real - Time Weather ™ with weather radar image maps.

Through the extended use of data from the navigation system and information from the camera and the radar sensor, third - generation hybrid vehicles can look ahead, well beyond the driver's field of vision, and adjust to the specific speed / route profile.

The folks at Mercedes - Benz say that the upgraded radar and camera systems mean the new CLS has a better «view» of surrounding traffic, while using map and navigation data to calculate driving behaviour.

It uses the data provided by the full - range radar sensors, continuously measures the proximity of the vehicle ahead and warns the BMW driver if necessary.

It uses four lasers, five radars, an eight - way camera system and sonar to gather data.