News tagged with portable radar
Can radar be used to deter bats from approaching wind turbines?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Large numbers of bats are killed by colliding with turbine blades or by experiencing sudden depressurisation immediately adjacent to the blade.
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Data support theory on location of lost Leonardo da Vinci painting
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence uncovered during research conducted in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio late last year appears to support the theory that a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting existed on the east wall of the ...
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR
For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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The world's biggest radar laboratory
In the past year, the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility deployed 18 new scanning radars at its research sites in Oklahoma, Alaska, and the tropical western Pacific. These ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Via research aircraft instead of dog sled
With dog food and a pack of huskies Dr. Veit Helm would not get far on his Antarctic expeditions. Instead, the geophysicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association conducts ...
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Dec 08, 2011 |
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Dashing through the snow, in a one-truck radar dish
SCHUSS. The term for a straight, downhill ski run. In the land of the Greatest Snow on Earth--Utah--SCHUSS is also the moniker for storm-chasing, Old Man Winter-style.
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Dec 07, 2011 |
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Monitoring food with millimeter waves
Has the packet been properly filled? Are there impurities in the chocolate? Have the plastic seams been welded correctly? Is there a knife hidden in the parcel? Answers to all these questions are provided ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
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Storm chasers of Utah: Tornado-hunting radar truck seeks Wasatch snow and rain
A truck-mounted radar dish often used to chase Midwest tornadoes is getting a workout in Utah this month as University of Utah meteorologists use it to get an unprecedented look inside snow and rain storms ...
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Nov 10, 2011 |
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GM: Self-driving vehicles could be ready by end of decade
Vehicles that partially drive themselves will be available by the middle of the decade with more sophisticated self-driving systems by the end of the decade, General Motors Vice President of Global Research ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 17, 2011 |
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'Radar for the human eye': Inexpensive hand-held device detects cataracts at the earliest stages
Cataracts are the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. But the standard test to detect the cloudy patches in the eye’s lens requires a $5,000 piece of equipment called a slit lamp, and a ...
Jul 01, 2011 |
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GPS not working? A shoe radar may help you find your way
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 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 working? Researchers ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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