Sentences with phrase «using other satellite data»

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

The information gathered from satellites and other sources is processed using big data technology and analytic forecasting.

Using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instruments aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, Hilker, Lyapustin and their colleagues developed a new method to detect and remove clouds and other sources of error in the data.

Experts looking to avert the looming gap will gather to debate other options, including the potential use of data from a Chinese satellite, in December, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Using statistically modeled maps drawn from satellite data and other sources, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have projected that the near - surface permafrost that presently underlies 38 percent of boreal and arctic Alaska would be reduced by 16 to 24 percent by the end of the 21st century under widely accepted climate scenarios.

Previous work by Hook using satellite data indicated that many lake temperatures were warming faster than air temperature and that the greatest warming was observed at high latitudes, as seen in other climate warming studies.

The researchers used six theoretical models of how the dust affects polarization, mostly drawn from older data from other satellites.

Using a combination of satellite and ground data, the team can map multiple indicators of monkey distribution, including human activity zones as inferred from roads and settlements, direct detections from mosquito - derived iDNA, animal sound recordings, plus detections of other species that are usually found when monkeys are present, such as other large vertebrates.

Olson says Gray himself had worked on methods to calculate wind and drift direction from buoys and other sensor data: «He collaborated with people on satellite image data capture and analysis and sea surface data capture and analysis, and these people now are using their professional skills in the search.»

While other studies have looked at wildfire records over longer time periods, this is the first study to use high - resolution satellite data to examine wildfire trends over a broad range of landscapes, explained Littell.

Using the Carnegie Airborne Observatory's signature technique, called airborne laser - guided imaging spectroscopy, integrated with satellite imaging, and other geospatial data, Asner and his team were able to provide high - resolution maps of Sabah's forests.

This involves a combination of satellite observations (when different satellites captured temperatures in both morning and evening), the use of climate models to estimate how temperatures change in the atmosphere over the course of the day, and using reanalysis data that incorporates readings from surface observations, weather balloons and other instruments.

Using satellite images and other data, the team studied the edge of the former Laurentide Ice Sheet, a vast expanse of ice that covered two - thirds of North America during the last ice age.

It also appears dramatically in data being collected by NASA satellites and other weather - monitoring instruments used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The navigation system maintains a set of locally stored maps, with all the topographic detail and 3D rendered buildings of other Audi models» navigation, useful for people who don't care for the satellite look or who don't want to use a phone's data plan.

The group, whose funders include the European Research Council, combs through data such as smartphone footage, satellite imagery, maps, and phone logs to create three - dimensional spatial maps of conflict sites, using architectural rendering software and other analytic tools.

In a new study using 16 years of satellite data, NASA reveals that the number one spot gets almost 300 thunderstorms per year; these other hotspots are wild as well.

«As a member of the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team, Allen Blackman has developed a tool that uses Landsat and other satellite data to make those decisions easier.»

Further, NCEI's ocean surface temperature analysis disagrees substantially with NOAA's other SST data set (OISST), using satellite data and the buoys.

Several other satellite altimeters have also been launched, and the data from these have been used to estimate global mean sea level trends since 1993.

Your notion of «model» for satellites is what other people call simple data postprocessing using a validated formula.

That data, scientists said at the Nov. 10 briefing, can be used to improve hurricane forecasting by providing more data and in a more timely manner than possible with other satellites or hurricane - tracking aircraft.

Alternatives might include using proxy measures, or non-GHCN data (e.g. satellites, other weather stations).

This is different than claiming that this particular method (whereby satellite data and ground station data are used together in RegEM) provides a more accurate representation of the [unknown] truth than other methods.

The researchers compared the GNSS - R satellite measurements with data from other sources, including tropical cyclone best track data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information; two climate reanalysis products; and a spaceborne scatterometer, a tool that uses microwave radar to measure winds near the surface of the ocean.

Without the raw data, I would assume that climate scientists would be much inclined to use one of the other available data sets and perhaps start using the satellite based sets more.

Ice - ocean model simulations, on the other hand, have requirements with respect to data density and quality, e.g., for observed ice thickness fields used in initialization of model runs, that are currently not being met by existing data sources (with the exception of, e.g., satellite - observed ice concentration fields).

Some would choose 1997, others would more conservatively use 2002 as the proper starting date, based on satellite data.

Since the late 1970s, other data from Earth - observation satellites have been used to provide a wide range of global observations of various components of the climate system.

20 months ago (Feb 19, 2010), at http://tinyurl.com/RobbieSays15Years (a tiny url for this Amazon post), I examined all 3,120 windows of width a multiple of 12 months, from 5 years wide to 17 years wide, starting January 1979 or later and ending December 2009 or earlier, from the then - current RSS MSU dataset (satellite temperature data for the lower troposphere, which is what others had been using — note that the URL in the Amazon is no longer current, use the just - cited one instead).

The consistency of this work in itself (beautifully), with ocean data, satellite data and prior UHI and land use change work from Pielke, McKitrick and others may actually warrant to use these results for improvment of the amplification factor estimation

PS, you'd better have some suspicion over satellite data...... the neither of them agree with the other, Especially since both use mostly the same raw data.

And, there is plenty of empirical data at every level: There is empirical data on the basic absorption lines of the various atmospheric constituents, there is a wealth of empirical data backing up the basic equations of radiative transfer that are applied in calculating the greenhouse effect in just the same way that engineers and scientists use these equations everyday in other calculations, there is empirical spectra looking both up from the surface of the earth and down from satellites.

MODIS NPP data are modelled using remotely sensed satellite data and have been cross-validated by other studies [45].

Fortunately, some satellite sensors are able to obtain data directly over the North Pole; Data from these satellites could be used to fill in data that are missing from other satellite recodata directly over the North Pole; Data from these satellites could be used to fill in data that are missing from other satellite recoData from these satellites could be used to fill in data that are missing from other satellite recodata that are missing from other satellite records.

The CLIVAR newsletter has a number of other interesting articles, on CFMIP (p20), the scenarios begin used (RCPs)(p12), the ESG data delivery system (p40), satellite comparisons (p46, and p47) and the carbon - cycle simulations (p27).

Are there situations where lawyers might use crowdsourcing to help find evidence within satellite imagery or other large volumes of public data?