Using data from several research satellites, scientists will spend the next three years trying to understand the climate impacts of about 770 million tons of dust carried into the atmosphere every year from the Sahara Desert.
Earth Sciences
Oct 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The air we breathe doesn't always come from our own backyard. In fact, sometimes it doesn't even come from our neighbors.
Earth Sciences
May 19, 2010
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NASA engineers will test a suite of new laser technologies from an aircraft this summer for Earth science remote sensing. Called "lidar," the instruments could also be used to improve models of the moon's shape and aid the ...
Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2024
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What might look like a dangling hamster ball is actually a robotic sphere to explore the depths of lunar caves.
Planetary Sciences
Mar 24, 2021
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In a peninsula far, far away, a laser shoots into the sky to study the Antarctic atmosphere at Concordia research station.
Space Exploration
Aug 4, 2020
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A PNNL research team has upgraded the instrumentation on two lidar buoys used to capture data that help advance the scientific understanding of offshore wind and its energy-producing potential. The buoys were equipped with ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 10, 2020
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The Institution of Civil Engineers will honor the research of a New York University professor who employed terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) to examine Ireland's historic Guinness Bridge.
Engineering
Jul 11, 2019
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Panasonic Corporation announced today that it has developed a 3-D LiDAR sensor that accurately measure the direction of and distance to objects with a wide angle of view, which is critical for autonomous operation of mobile ...
Engineering
Sep 11, 2017
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It's a warm summer afternoon in the Tanzanian village of Lupiro, and Mikkel Brydegaard is crouching in a brick hut, trying to fix a broken laser. Next to him, on a tall tripod, three telescopes point through a window at a ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2017
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The Indiana Geological Survey has published a new state map that features the latest digital technology using high-resolution elevation data. The map was prepared using lidar data—light detection and ranging—collected ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 1, 2015
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