Later in 1971, Goldstein refined the rotation period to be 58.65 + - 0.25 days
using radar observations.
The team
used radar observations captured by the European Earth Remote Sensing (ERS - 1 and -2) satellites to measure just how far the grounding line - the point where the glacier meets the land - had retreated.
Not exact matches
Using satellite
radar and helicopter
observations, scientists at Laval University in Quebec and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks discovered that the more - than -150-square-mile Ward Hunt Ice Shelf on the north coast of Canada's Nunavut territory has split in half.
The team is already
using a preliminary shape model, produced from
radar observations of the asteroid.
Moreover, the partnership with China will likely continue, and the two nations are considering the development of a new family of satellites
using radar instead of optical instruments, enabling the
observation of forests even through clouds.
«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.
French credited modern technology with making the detailed cloud - seeding
observations possible, citing the
use of ground - based
radar as well as
radar on UW's King Air research aircraft and multiple flights over the mountains near Boise.
Concurrently with the
radar imaging, the scientists also
used the
radar transmitter at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and a portion of the antennas that are part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to perform an
observation known as
radar speckle tracking.
Radar is also widely
used for meteor detection and
observation.
Finnish Meteorological Institute makes
observations of the atmosphere, sea and space at over 400 stations around Finland, and
using remote sensing instruments such as
radars and satellites.
That maneuver, NASA told USA Today will be the probe's «final opportunity for up - close
observations of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons that spread across the moon's northern polar region, and the last chance to
use its powerful
radar to pierce the haze and make detailed images of the surface.»
Astronomers studied Toutatis, Geographos and Castalia
using Earth - based
radar observations during close approaches to the Earth.
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.
On May 3, 2007, team of astronomers (including Jean - Luc Margot; Stan Peale; Igor V. Holin; Raymond F. Jurgens; and Martin A. Slade) announced new evidence that Mercury has a partially molten core
using new
observations of fluctuations in Mercury's spin obtained with
radar signals bounced off the planet from Earth (with the 305 - meter Arecibo, the 34 - meter Goldstone, and the 100 - meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescopes).
The effort
uses innovative ARM
radar observations from the MC3E field campaign to evaluate a series of high - resolution simulations, which results in an improved understanding of cloud transitions and how to diagnose these transitions in models.
«Validation of GMI Snowfall
Observations by
Using a Combination of Weather
Radar and Surface Measurements.»
Using satellite
radar interferometry
observations of Greenland, we detected widespread glacier acceleration below 66 - north between 1996 and 2000, which rapidly expanded to 70 - north in 2005.
Here, satellite
radar observations are
used to produce a composite picture of the life cycle of convection in these two regions.
A study
using Earth Remote Sensing satellite
radar interferometry (EERS - 1 and -2)
observations from 1992 through 2011 finds «a continuous and rapid retreat of the grounding lines of Pine Island, Thwaites, Haynes, Smith, and Kohler» Glaciers, and the authors conclude that «this sector of West Antarctica is undergoing a marine ice sheet instability that will significantly contribute to sea level rise in decades to centuries to come» (Rignot et al. 2014).
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.
Now, with 10 years of
observations using its Advanced Synthetic Aperture
Radar, ASAR, Envisat has mapped an additional loss in Larsen B's area of 1,790 sq km (690 square miles) over the past decade.»
«Shallow Precipitation Detection and Classification
Using Multifrequency
Radar Observations and Model Simulations.»
Finnish Meteorological Institute makes
observations of the atmosphere, sea and space at over 400 stations around Finland, and
using remote sensing instruments such as
radars and satellites.
His research focuses on understanding the interactions of ice, ocean and climate, in particular
using imaging
radar observations from satellites and airplanes to determine how the ice sheets in Antarctica, Greenland and Patagonia will respond to climate change and affect global sea level.
«Over the last couple of years, there have been new
observation techniques
using RADAR and LIDAR,» Bennartz said.