News tagged with laser mapping
NASA map sees Earth's trees in a new light
A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how their heights ...
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Super high-resolution carbon estimates for endangered Madagascar
By combining airborne laser technology, satellite mapping, and ground-based plot surveys, a team of researchers has produced the first large-scale, high-resolution estimates of carbon stocks in remote and fragile Madagascar. ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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NASA details achievements of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA has declared full mission success for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). As a result of the mission, LRO has changed our view of the entire moon and brought it into sharper focus with unprecedented ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 21, 2011 |
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New NASA map reveals patterns of tropical forest carbon storage
A NASA-led research team has used a variety of NASA satellite data to create the most precise map ever produced depicting the amount and location of carbon stored in Earth's tropical forests. The data are ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Scientists to make detailed map of Calif. coast
(AP) -- Scientists will be using laser beams, computer software and airplanes to piece together what they say will be the most detailed map ever assembled of the California coastline.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 19, 2010 |
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ARS Study Helps Farmers Make Best Use of Fertilizers
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way to make topographic maps with radar can help farmers divert more of their resources to the highest-yielding parts of their fields, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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RIT captures Haiti disaster with high-tech imaging system
In the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that struck Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology are sweeping the leveled city with high-tech imaging integrated into ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2010 |
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NASA flies to Antarctica for largest airborne polar ice survey
NASA begins a series of flights Oct. 15 to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The flights are part of Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year campaign that is the largest airborne survey ever made of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Using Lasers to Map Bird Habitat
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lasers are providing scientists with new tools for mapping, protecting, and restoring bird habitat along rivers. In a paper published in the October issue of Ecological Applications, scientists from PRBO C ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Golden Nanotubes Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Nodes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 24, 2009 |
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NASA shoots the moon to track lunar spacecraft
28 times per second, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center fire a laser that travels about 250,000 miles to hit the minivan-sized Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft moving at nearly 3,600 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Next generation digital maps are laser sharp
Restoring habitat for spawning species of fish, such as Atlantic salmon, starts with a geological inventory of suitable rivers and streams, and the watershed systems that support them. But the high-tech mapping ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2009 |
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