Earth Science and Sensing News

RSS

Space Technology Set to Boost National Water Quality Management

Satellites in space and a network of ground-based sensors could be used to monitor the quality of Australia’s inland waterways, reservoirs and coastal environments.

21 Sep 2020

Engineers Develop Device to Calibrate Sensors on Earth-Imaging Satellites

A prototype device may soon be used for calibrating sensors on satellites used for imaging the Earth.

5 Aug 2020

Danforth Center Researcher Wins Grant to Develop Integrated Smart Farm System

The National Institute for Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation has awarded Nadia Shakoor, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a three-year, $1.4 million grant to develop FieldDock, an integrated smart farm system.

16 Jul 2020

Vaisala and FMI Technology Heads to Mars Onboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover

International collaboration takes Vaisala and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) to Mars onboard NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The rover is scheduled to launch on July 30, 2020. Vaisala’s sensor technology combined with FMI’s measurement instrumentation will be used to obtain accurate and reliable pressure and humidity data from the surface of the red planet.

From Vaisala Corporation 2 Jul 2020

A Next-Generation, Rugged Seismometer Could be Deployed to Measure Moonquakes

NASA hasn't measured moonquakes since Apollo astronauts deployed a handful of measuring stations at various locations on the lunar surface and discovered unexpectedly that Earth's only natural satellite was far from seismically inactive.

30 Apr 2020

No “Clouded” Judgments: Geostationary Satellite an Alternative to Monitor Land Surfaces

Researchers explain how a new meteorological satellite can be an option to monitor land surfaces and climate change.

13 Dec 2019

Environmental Risks can be Sensed Using Underground Fiber Optic Cables

Telecommunications lines built for conveying internet and phone service can sense the rumble of thunder underground, potentially offering researchers with a new method of detecting environmental risks and imaging deep within the Earth.

12 Dec 2019

Fiber Optic Cables Could be Employed as Earthquake Sensors

Minute internal flaws can be found in each hair-thin glass fiber in a buried fiber optic cable—and that is a good thing for researchers seeking new ways to gather seismic data in places ranging from a busy urban downtown to a remote glacier.

5 Dec 2019

Largest Atmospheric Radar in the Antarctic Used to Measure Earth’s Ionosphere

About 60 to 600 miles above Earth’s surface, the night sky appears chaotic. This layer of Earth’s atmosphere is known as the ionosphere and gets blasted by solar radiation that splits the bonds of ions.

28 Nov 2019

Real-Time Groundwater Monitoring Easy for SENSEI

World-first trials of CSIRO’s automated sensor system, SENSEI, are providing promising, real-time results to better monitor and manage groundwater impacts in mining operations.

22 Nov 2019