News tagged with radar images

NASA Images Show Continuing Mexico Quake Deformation

(PhysOrg.com) -- New NASA airborne radar images of Southern California near the U.S.-Mexico border show Earth's surface is continuing to deform following the April 4 magnitude, 7.2 temblor and its many aftershocks ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA Radar Images Show How Mexico Quake Deformed Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has released the first-ever airborne radar images of the deformation in Earth's surface caused by a major earthquake -- the magnitude 7.2 temblor that rocked Mexico's state of Baja California ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Radar reveals extent of buried ancient Egypt city

An Austrian archaeological team has used radar imaging to determine the extent of the ruins of the one time 3,500-year-old capital of Egypt's foreign occupiers, said the antiquities department Sunday.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 21, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Topography Reflects Baja Quake Site's Complex Geology

(PhysOrg.com) -- The topography surrounding the Laguna Salada fault in the Mexican state of Baja, California, is clearly shown in this combined radar image and topographic view (above) generated with data ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA Radar Studies Continue in Central America, Hispaniola

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA radar imaging flights over Central America, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are in the second week of a three-week campaign.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

2 NASA satellites see Edzani power up in clouds and rainfall

The latest satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellites have provided forecasters with signs in clouds and rainfall that Edzani is strengthening in the Southern Indian ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance

A recent AFOSR-funded technology should enable the Air Force to achieve advances in object and target detection technology by using sophisticated algebraic theories called groups, rings and fields.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA's TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Choi-Wan

NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over the center of Super Typhoon Choi-Wan at 2:34 EDT on September 17, 2009 and captured heavy rainfall around ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Triple Asteroid System Triples Observers' Interest

(PhysOrg.com) -- Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and 14, 2009, revealed that near-Earth asteroid 1994 CC is a triple system. Asteroid 1994 CC encountered Earth within 2.52 million ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Space radar techniques for land mapping

Entrepreneurs at ESA’s Business Incubation centre in the Netherlands have used radar technology from the agency’s Envisat remote-sensing satellite to develop a compact, high-resolution radar that can monitor ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New map hints at Venus's wet, volcanic past (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been more Earth-like, with both, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 0

China environmental phenomena monitored from space

China 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 deformation across major continental faults ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ESA map reveals European shipping routes like never before

A synoptic view of European shipping routes can be seen for the first time thanks to a new map created using seven years of radar data from ESA's Envisat satellite.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

A glimpse of future GMES Sentinel-1 radar images

A newly initiated campaign marks an important step in preparing for how data from the Sentinel-1 European Radar Observatory will be used for applications such as land-cover mapping and crop management. Sentinel-1 ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Satellites show how Earth moved during Italy quake

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying satellite radar data from ESA's Envisat and the Italian Space Agency's COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analysing the movement of Earth during and after the 6.3 earthquake that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0