News tagged with aerial
JPL Airborne Radar Captures Its First Image of Post-Quake Haiti
(PhysOrg.com) -- JPL's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) captured this false-color composite image of the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the surrounding region on Jan. 27, 2010. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 02, 2010 |
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Search for frozen camera may reveal who climbed Everest first
(PhysOrg.com) -- An Everest historian believes he may have pinpointed the last resting place of mountaineer Andrew Irvine, who died on a mission to climb Mount Everest in 1924, almost 30 years before the successful ...
Jan 29, 2010 |
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NASA Airborne Radar Studies Haiti Earthquake Faults
In response to the disaster in Haiti on Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola to a previously scheduled ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Novel zoom objective with deformable mirrors
Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs deployed on landscape analysis missions carry optical measuring equipment that is required to operate free of chromatic aberration. Researchers have now designed an all-reflective ...
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Flight of fancy: MIT autonomous mini-helicopter solves one tough challenge
In its first 18 years, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s annual aerial-robotics competition posed four successive challenges, which robotics researchers had to meet using entirely ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Spiraling Flight of Maple Tree Seeds Inspires New Surveillance Technology (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. Now aerospace engineering ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Edge detection crucial to eyesight
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a major advance in understanding how our eyesight works, Australian scientists have shown that birds' amazing flight and landing precision relies on their ability to detect edges.
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Aerial Imagery System Helps Save Water
(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are developing a system that saves water by using aerial imagery and ground-based sensors to determine the irrigation needs of small sections ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Homebuyers gain an edge with Internet searches
In the colorful, centuries-long history of house hunting, when have so many buyers come to the table knowing so much about prices, neighborhoods and school test scores?
Aug 08, 2009 |
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NRL's XFC UAS achieves flight endurance milestone
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has completed a successful flight test of the fuel cell powered XFC (eXperimental Fuel Cell) unmanned aerial system (UAS). During the June 2 flight test, ...
Aug 06, 2009 |
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How rolling terrain rolls: New study could help identify signs of life on other planets (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has flown over the western United States knows the patterns well: Seemingly endless repetitions of similar landforms, ridges and valleys and ridges and valleys arranged with nearly ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2009 |
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A drone for security and safety (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a small robotic drone capable of helping save lives in emergency situations or preventing terrorist attacks in urban areas.
May 29, 2009 |
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Bird songs change with environment
Just as a changing radio landscape has made it tough for Foghat to get much airplay these days, so it is for birdsongs according to new research published in The American Naturalist.
May 20, 2009 |
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Surveillance vehicles take flight using alternative energy
Nearly undetectable from the ground, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used by the military to scan terrain for possible threats and intelligence. Now, fuel cell powered UAVs are taking flight as ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Australia's most endangered snake might need burning
Conserving Australia's most endangered snake might mean lighting more bush fires, ecologists have proposed.
Mar 24, 2009 |
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