The President's FY 2005 budget for USGS highlights
...erferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar), which uses radar from satellites to detect subtle land elevation changes. This tool will enable the USGS to monitor earthquake-prone areas and conduct monitoring of high-risk volcanoes. The budget also provides funds to continue the Advanced National Seismic System...Traditional Inuit ice treks guided from space
..." As well as detecting ice thickness and age, radar has the additional advantage of seeing through cloud and darkness, so usable imagery can be acquired whenever an overpass takes place. "If a satellite image is taken at midnight we aim to have it available by midday the same day," added Bennett....Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...dar Altimetry-2 (RA-2), which bounces thousands of radar pulses each second off the sea surface in order to... were successfully merged using a technique called radar interferometry to identify very tiny ground movements occurring between acquisitions, allowing geolo...MIT aims radar research at breast cancer
...E, Mass. -- A breast cancer treatment based on MIT radar research that was originally aimed at detecting space-borne missiles is showing promise in the final phase of clinical testing. Preliminary results to be presented on Wednesday, April 21 at the 9th International Congress on Hyperthermic Oncology in ...ESA consults European science community on candidate Earth Explorer missions
...a on aerosols and thin clouds and a high frequency radar will do the same for thick clouds. A multi-spectral imager will provide additional information on distribution of aerosol and cloud optical properties, and a broadband radiometer will measure radiances. SPECTRA Surface Processes and Ecosystem Change...Ocean dye to help Rutgers scientists trace Hudson River's path miles into the Atlantic
...ng use of unmanned submarines, satellites, coastal radar and other technologies. It is funded through a $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. As the study progresses, Rutgers scientists will add the data to computer models for predicting plume behavior and content under a wide range of ...Researchers developing radar technology to detect mold behind walls
Researchers are testing the feasibility of using radar technology to detect mold behind gypsum wallboard....ng algorithm and high-sensitivity, laboratory-size radar system recently developed by GTRI principal research scientist Gene Greneker and senior research sci...Tropical legume could be alternative hay/forage crop for Texas
...erton. Forage scientists have had lablab on their radar screens for some time. The tropical legume forage can be grazed, cut as hay or grown in mixtures with corn or sorghum and harvested as silage. It can produce nearly 2 tons of dry forage per acre in 100 days with leaf protein content as high as 25 pe...Endangered turtles' trek along ocean currents revealed by satellite
... level anomalies obtained by merging data with the radar altimeter aboard ESA's ERS-2 with another aboard t... Altimeter (RA) instrument. By firing thousands of radar pulses off the surface of the sea every second extremely precise ocean height measurement is made po......is based on an armada of plant receptors - a plant radar system which signalizes pathogen invasion. To circ...m, a parasite has to either slip through the plant radar system or affect the cellular immune response following its detection. The mildew chose the latter s...Genetically-engineered 'marathon mouse' keeps on running
...ility of an effect on muscle fibers was not on our radar screen." However, when the researchers produced mice with enhanced PPAR-delta activity, they saw a major transformation in skeletal muscle fibers. The mice showed a major enhancement of so-called "slow-twitch" muscle fibers and a decrease in "fast-t...Study in Science reveals recreational fishing takes big bite of ocean catch
...a. "Recreational anglers are operating below the radar screen of management. While the individual may take relatively few fish, we show that a few fish per person times millions of fishermen can have an enormous impact." "The large impacts of recreational fisheries surprised us, and they may startle many...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...ed is natural social interaction. "Kids have their radar out from the beginning; they're looking for language-like information in the world. And they're ready to process that information in a specific way. You don't need to teach children language any more than you need to teach them to walk," Senghas said...