The technology processes remote-sensing data, including data from the LANDSAT and RADAR satellites, in combination with ground truth data provided by a ground penetrating radar and other information drawn from geological, hydrogeological, geographical, hydrological and climate data and, when dealing with deep aquifers, seismological data.
We have become a staging ground for data.
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The team spent two days photographing the calving ground and gathering data that would be used by conservationists to persuade China to protect the area.
You'd think, watching companies like Apple break ground on sprawling data centers, that the number of servers powering our untethered lives was on the rise.
The first maps not only record the three components but also compare their signals to the best available gravity field models assembled from existing space- and ground-acquired data-sets.
Existing data from ground-based and space telescopes put w at between -1.1 and -0.9.
This is just opening up a whole new breeding ground to create more data sellers.
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It will then hover for stints as long as a week, collecting, assessing, and relaying important surveillance data to ground troops in a matter of seconds.
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However the on-ground rainfall and river flow data networks are inadequate to successfully customize these technologies for Pakistan.
South Korea says the satellite launched on Wednesday has made contact with a ground station and is sending data.
By cross-referencing the satellite data with a ground-based transmitter of precisely known location, the accuracy can be boosted tenfold or more.
Thankfully, there's software that helps guys on the ground filter through the mass of data.
Over the last two decades, supercomputing allowed new skill levels in interpreting seismic data of below-ground structures.
In February this year Mark Swain of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and his colleagues reported that they had developed a new technique for calibrating data arriving at ordinary ground-based telescopes, allowing them to identify the components of an extrasolar atmosphere.
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Before leaving Adirondack, Spirit took images and collected miniature thermal emission spectrometer (Mini-Tes) data from the hole it ground with its rock abrasion tool (Rat).
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Since 2008, the firm's Ground Truth project has mashed together licensed data with information gathered by its own fleet of Street View cars and bicycles.
However, by then, the new high resolution gravity data should be safely on the ground.
The rows over secret courts and communications data will be fought on open ground.
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He and his colleagues have made a start on this at Army City, where they are creating a system that will swallow, digest and combine data from satellites, aircraft and ground-based sensors, aligning them in a single, computer-based model of the site.
The new data offer the most detailed, ground-level look at the impact of federal government employment and spending last year, highlighting those parts of the country that have received the most benefits and those that have been hit hardest by the drop in private employment.
"We have to rely on data we get from people on the ground, " she said.
Data retrieved from HICO have been validated with data collected from samples collected on the ground and used to develop algorithms to map indicators of water quality.
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In April, China launched its first tracking data relay satellite to lessen its dependency on ground satellite control and relay stations.
Satellite-based data links will improve communication between pilots and ground controllers, cutting out about 40% of voice communication over the radio.
Lockheed Martin's original SBIRS contract includes HEO payloads, two geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellites, as well as ground-based assets to receive and process the infrared data.
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According to the company, its current work in Sudan consists of analyzing existing data only, as on-the-ground operations have been suspended due to security concerns.
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Smarter data and expanded choices enable the development of ground-breaking consumer experiences such as Urban Guidance - the first worldwide implementation of Nokia's Transit and Pedestrian Content.
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