Roskosmos, Russia's space agency, said it was impossible to track objects falling as fast as the meteor.
The services he cite span several functions, including navigation applications and applications that geo-track objects, trucks and ships.
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Patients are asked to track objects with their eyes, to try to press switches, to look at photographs.
He explained that ground-based radars are able to track objects of about 10cm (3.9 inches) and sometimes smaller, depending on altitude above the earth, while other sensors can detect particles down to about 5mm (0.2 inches) in low earth orbit.
Frequent follow-up observations will allow astronomers to track those objects and calculate their orbits, identifying any potential threats to Earth.
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Taking advantage of Continental's sensor fusion technology as part of the ContiGuard safety concept, the vehicle is able to track all objects as they enter into the sensors' field of view.
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Better image-sensing chips are giving newer cameras an almost humanlike ability to track people and objects as they pass the field of vision.
It can also record in bursts of three images to track fast-moving objects, or make time-lapse recording, taking a photos automatically anywhere from once a minute to once every 24 hours.
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Beyond capturing images of objects, the technology could also be used to keep track of the movement of rocks, or foliage growth.
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And because Gaia will track anything that passes across its e2v CCDs, it is likely also to see countless objects that have hitherto gone unrecorded - such as asteroids, planets beyond our Solar System, and tepid stars that never quite fired into life.
Completely new dimensions such as location, velocity, orientation, proximity to objects or people, modes of interaction and voice inflection, create hundreds of new attributes from which to track and analyze our behaviors.
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At each end one of Microsoft's Kinect depth camera sensors is used to track the direction of each person's gaze as well as to capture the shape and appearance of objects placed on the surface and the participant sitting behind them.
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