Father-and-son-team Orazio and Salvatore Consoli help gather the seismic data -- three generations of their family have worked on the volcano.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather.
If funds are forthcoming, the team will visit them all in the coming months to gather first-hand data on tree deaths.
Lanworth, always looking for new ways to gather real-time data, is figuring out how to pay crop dusters to snap photos from their planes.
The Esa said it was not interested in the features drone owners designated as their virtual docking port - it wanted to gather data only about the way humans navigated the robot craft.
The search firm says that an experimental software project designed to gather data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks was accidentally rolled out along with its Street View initiative, which uses cameras mounted on cars to film streets and buildings.
"The vehicles will cover thousands of kilometres in test drives and evaluations to gather valuable research data from every-day driving scenarios, " said Christian Ress, technical expert, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering.
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They used a questionnaire from conventional ALS trials to gather patients' self-reported data on functions such as swallowing, walking, and breathing.
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The system can gather data from security cameras, license-plate readers, radiation detectors and 911 calls and hunt through dozens of existing law-enforcement databases for related information.
Merck spokesman Tony Plohoros says that Merck's statement at the analyst meeting referred to its plan to gather and combine heart-safety data from three other studies, whose primary aim was to show Vioxx could prevent or treat cancer.
Approximately two-thirds (63%) of American adults say they currently maintain a profile on a social networking site, notes Pew, which may be a rich landscape for insurers who gather and analyze social data to cross-sell, up-sell and investigate claims.
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This requires good, old-fashioned intelligence work to gather the data, but allows those data to be interpreted in ways that human experts could never manage, because there are too many links between them for a human brain to keep track of.
Eye-tracking systems are fixed into screens to gather data so the images can be personalised.
Six years ago, radiologist Michael Zalis found himself spending a lot of time logging in and out of separate electronic health records at Massachusetts General Hospital to gather lab data, clinical notes, and other non-imaging information scattered in multiple databases.
Do-it-yourself tools have made it possible for anyone to gather data to support business decisions.
Eventually Higg ratings will translate to consumer labels, but the Coalition is being careful to test the index, gather data, and refine the system before delving into anything consumer-facing.
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Online purveyors, meanwhile, are embracing old-fashioned, bricks-and-mortar locations to drum up new business and gather new data on their customers.
These industry-expert consultants used a manual process rather than utilizing automated tools to gather borrower data and review it for harm.
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Businesses today have an unprecedented opportunity to gather and leverage holistic big data, including that gleaned from the vast, fast-moving social web.
As Big Data becomes a fixture of office life, companies are turning to tracking devices to gather real-time information on how teams of employees work and interact.
The chief executive of one business-to-business (B2B) company, for instance, hired market research firms to gather data about its promoters and detractors.
The FCC's 25-page report, dated April 13, provides additional evidence that the plan to gather the data was intentional.
As the Vice President announced in June 2010, we have expanded the use of cutting-edge fraud mapping tools to gather enormous quantities of information in real time, analyze the data, and connect the dots to identify indicators of possible fraud or error.
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