News tagged with lidar system
Carbon mapping breakthrough
By integrating satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the World Wildlife ...
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Sep 06, 2010 |
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LIDAR system offers peerless precision in remote measurements
By combining the best of two different distance measurement approaches with a super-accurate technology called an optical frequency comb, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a laser ...
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Researchers create 3-D laser maps that show how earthquake changes landscape
Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR
For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Remote sensing places nature at our fingertips
When the crew of Apollo 17 snapped the famous Blue Marble photo of Earth in 1972, they gave humanity its first truly global perspective on the planet we all call home. The image helped spark recognition of ...
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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Clever math could enable a high-quality 3-D camera for cellphones
When Microsoft’s Kinect -- a device that lets Xbox users control games with physical gestures -- hit the market, computer scientists immediately began hacking it. A black plastic bar about 11 inches wide ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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A quantum leap in computing
When American physicist Richard Feynman in 1982 proposed creating a quantum computer that could solve complex problems, the idea was merely a theory scientists believed was far off in the future.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 04, 2012 |
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NASA gears up for airborne study of earth's radiation balance
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists have successfully completed flight tests in preparation for deployment of a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tropical ...
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Dec 06, 2011 |
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Image: Astronaut tests SAFER backpack
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronaut Mark Lee tests the new backpack called Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER), a system designed for use in the event a crew member becomes untethered while conducting an EVA.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Taking the pulse of an iceberg -- scientists simulate laser imaging for NASA missions
Monitoring glaciers and ice sheets is complicated work. They move and change shape. They melt.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Scientists prepare for coming ATTREX climate study
A consortium of scientists are in the early stages of preparation for a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tropical tropopause layer of ...
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Nov 14, 2011 |
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Evidence of ancient lake in California's Eel River emerges
A catastrophic landslide 22,500 years ago dammed the upper reaches of northern California's Eel River, forming a 30-mile-long lake, which has since disappeared, and leaving a living legacy found today in the ...
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Nov 14, 2011 |
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