Posts Tagged ‘robots’
How Acoustic Waves Help Us to See the Sea Floor: An Interview with Gerardo Acosta
- Published on Wednesday, 21 October 2015 22:14
- Elise Mulder Osenga
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Using AUVs allows researchers to collect data in a minimally disruptive way and opens opportunities to observe some of the Earth’s least-studied regions.
Live From MTS/IEEE Oceans ‘15
- Published on Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:39
- Earthzine
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Earthzine is attending and providing updates from the Oceans ’15 conference in National Harbor, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., from Oct. 19-22.
Scientists to launch bio robots in Indian Ocean to study its ‘interior biology’
- Published on Thursday, 06 February 2014 16:33
- Amanda Lewan
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Originally Published by The Guardian – Floating sensors released by Australia and India to ‘revolutionise’ knowledge of climate change, food, energy and health security.
Rolling Helicopter Robot, Tornadoes and Jellyfish
- Published on Friday, 03 June 2011 00:01
- Jeff Kart
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The Earth, and its people and creatures continue to astound. This collection features videos of a robot that walks and flies, the record-breaking tornadoes of April, and a lesson on jellyfish diversity.
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GEO-VIII Plenary Sets Scene for 2012 and Beyond
By Michael Williams
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
Geneva, Switzerland
The GEO-VIII Plenary was hosted in Istanbul by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) on Nov. 16-17. The nearly 400 participants reviewed… Read More +
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Hold the Dirt: Sedimentation and Urban Growth in an Alabama Watershed
Radar Instrumentation for Operation Ice Bridge
Figure 1. A map created from ICESat data demonstrating the extent of ice sheet thinning in Greenland and Antarctica.… Read More +
Disturbing the Forest: A Look into Forest Ecosystem Dynamics in Ghana
The Trouble with Trees: Volatile Organic Compounds Exacerbate Climate Change and Air Pollution
Scientists are using sophisticated emission models and monitoring techniques to better understand the relationship between volatile organic compound production, climate change, and air pollution. As rainforests are cut down and replaced with isoprene-emitting oil palm plantations, data suggest that genetically modified trees may provide a hopeful alternative.
Read More +The Airborne Snow Observatory is Changing the Way Snow is Mapped
In the semi-arid southwest, measuring winter snowpack is critical for planning next summer’s water supplies. NASA’s ASO project helps to make projections of water availability more accurate than ever before.
The Airborne Snow Observatory poised at… Read More +
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