News tagged with remote cameras

Tracking tigers in 3-D

Mar 12, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

New software developed with help from the Wildlife Conservation Society will allow tiger researchers to rapidly identify individual animals by creating a three-dimensional model using photos taken by remote ...

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iPoint 3D - Using fingers as a remote control

Technology / Engineering

Feb 19, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 'iPoint 3D' allows people to communicate with a 3-D display through simple gestures - without touching it and without 3-D glasses or a data glove. What until now has only been seen in ...

Robot teaches world's first remote surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

Oct 03, 2007 | 3.7 / 5 (6) | 0

Argentine surgeons have conducted the world's first remote surgical procedure taught by a U.S. surgeon more than 5,400 miles away using a robot.

Keeping an eye on the Inauguration

Technology / Engineering

Feb 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

One of the toughest technological challenges for law enforcement is to simultaneously monitor live feeds from the wireless cameras scattered across their jurisdictions. A nearly impossible task under any circumstances, ...

Digital Eyes in the Sky Play Key Role in Battling Flames in Southern California

Technology / Other

Oct 30, 2007 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Video and still images captured in real time have informed fire crews and local residents in the San Diego area about the location and severity of threats to life and property since fires broke out earlier ...

Talking up a new role for cell phones in telemedicine

Chemistry /

May 05, 2008 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

After launching a communications revolution, cell phones are talking up a potentially life-saving new role in telemedicine — the use of telecommunications technology to provide medical diagnosis and patient ...

New 3-D sensors coming soon to computers, cameras, other gadgets

Technology / Hi Tech

Jul 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (6) | 1

In the science fiction movie "Minority Report," set 50 years in the future, Tom Cruise's character interacts with a computer display by moving his hands in front of it.

Perfect sight: Rosetta cameras track asteroid target

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 18, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- On 14 August, Rosetta conducted a successful trajectory correction manoeuvre using data obtained from the Agency's first-ever optical tracking of an asteroid target, (2867) Steins. Images ...

Scientists Believe Photograph Depicts Wolverine in California

Camera Spots Wolverine in Sierra Nevada

Biology /

Mar 06, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (21) | 1

U.S. Forest Service scientists believe an Oregon State University graduate student working on a cooperative project with the agency’s Pacific Southwest Research station on the Tahoe National Forest has photographed ...

Research project tests remote sensing to measure Earth's water cycle

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 26, 2006 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

This summer's dry Iowa weather has helped drive home the importance of soil moisture not just to farmers, but also to gardeners, homeowners and consumers looking for fresh produce.