News articles tagged with 'radar'
NASA shows topography of tsunami-damaged Japan city
— 12 Mar 2011 15:05 | Geology and palaeontologyThe topography surrounding Sendai, Japan is clearly visible in this combined radar image and topographic view generated with data from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)…
Improved method developed to locate ships in storms
— 1 Mar 2011 18:57 | TechnologyThere are already systems that detect ships at sea, but a group of engineers from the UAH, led by the researcher Raul Vicen, has introduced a new development, involving 'the use of…
GPS not working? A shoe radar may help you find your way
— 1 Dec 2010 18:31 | TechnologyThe prevalence of global positioning system (GPS) devices in everything from cars to cell phones has almost made getting lost a thing of the past. But what do you do when your GPS isn't…
Doppler radars help increase monsoon rainfall prediction accuracy
— 6 Oct 2010 06:23 | EnvironmentDoppler weather radar will significantly improve forecasting models used to track monsoon systems influencing the monsoon in and around India, according to a research collaboration…
NASA's CloudSat satellite sees a powerful heat engine in Typhoon Malakas
— 25 Sep 2010 12:32 | EnvironmentTowering thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are two things that NASA's CloudSat satellite saw as it passed over Typhoon Malakas, and those two factors confirm a strong storm. NASA's CloudSat…
Caltech scientists measure changing lake depths on Titan
— 15 Jul 2010 15:09 | AstronomyOn Earth, lake levels rise and fall with the seasons and with longer-term climate changes, as precipitation, evaporation, and runoff add and remove liquid. Now, for the first time,…
CryoSat-2 exceeding expectations
— 2 Jul 2010 10:20 | EnvironmentToday, participants at the Living Planet Symposium have been hearing about ESA's most recently launched mission, CryoSat-2. In orbit for almost three months, the satellite is in excellent…
OU researchers capture impressive tornadic data and images
— 22 May 2010 09:11 | EnvironmentAt the University of Oklahoma, researchers captured unprecedented high-resolution radar data during the May 10, 2010, tornadoes using one of the most advanced weather radars in the…
ESA investigates new methods of mapping tropical forest from space
— 22 Aug 2009 15:17 | EnvironmentTropical rainforests play a crucial role in Earth's carbon cycle by absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in biomass. However, mapping these carbon stocks from space poses…
China environmental phenomena monitored from space
— 4 Jul 2009 12:15 | Geology and palaeontologyChina is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground…