News tagged with mapping techniques
First-ever use of airborne resistivity system in Antarctica allows researchers to look beneath surface in untapped terri
(PhysOrg.com) -- National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers have successfully tested equipment to map the hidden distribution of groundwater and ice in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region for the first ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2012 |
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Gene controlling flowering boosts energy production from sorghum
A sorghum hybrid that does not flower and accumulates as much as three times the amount of stem and leaf matter may help the bioenergy industry, according to a study appearing today in the Proceedings of th ...
Sep 27, 2011 |
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LIDAR applications in coastal morphology and hazard assessment
Southampton scientists along with colleagues in New Zealand have used a sophisticated optical mapping technique to identify and accurately measure changes in coastal morphology following a catastrophic series ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Man in the Moon has 'Graphite Whiskers'
Up to now scientists thought that the trace amounts of carbon on the surface of the Moon came from the solar wind. Now researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory have detected and dated ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Women navigate more efficiently than men
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico suggests women navigate more efficiently than men in some circumstances, even though previous studies have shown that in general ...
May 05, 2010 |
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Computer Technique Creates Map of a Fruit Fly Brain
Researchers, led by Hanchuan Peng, at the Janelia Farm Research Campus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia are working to map the fruit fly brain in a way that highlights how neurons ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Genome mapping technique speeds process of finding specific genes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University scientist was part of a global team that has demonstrated a specialized mapping technique that could speed work in genomic fields by quickly finding genetic associations that shape an ...
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Neural networks mapped in dementia patients
Different types of dementia show dissimilar changes in brain activity. A network mapping technique described in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience has been applied to EEG data obtained from patients with Alzheimer's diseas ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 20, 2009 |
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GPS helps locate soil erosion pathways
Grassed waterways are placed in agricultural fields where runoff water tends to concentrate because they can substantially reduce soil erosion. Mapping techniques that help identify where erosion channels will likely form ...
Aug 13, 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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Tension in the nanoworld
(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...
Jan 23, 2009 |
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A better way to pinpoint underground oil reserves
(PhysOrg.com) -- Picture this: an accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide engineers’ efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells where it can be pumped out for storage or transport.
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields
(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...
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