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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

New, Low-Cost Soil Moisture Sensor Regulates Agricultural Water Consumption

Researchers from the University of Connecticut (UConn) have developed a soil moisture sensor that is more economical than anything presently available and offers a solution to the universal need to control water consumption in agriculture.

27 Sep 2019

NASA Secures Ride into Space for Instrument that Will Observe Air Pollution

NASA has obtained a host satellite provider and ride into space for an instrument that will considerably improve the understanding of air quality over North America.

23 Jul 2019

Innovative Sensor Network Monitors ‘vog’ in Hawai’i

In May 2018, the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea erupted with devastating consequences - destroying homes, displacing hundreds of people and emitting high levels of dust and harmful gases.

From Alphasense Ltd. 29 Apr 2019

ACEINNA OpenIMU Sensing Platform Earns the Global New Product Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan

ACEINNA today announced that its new OpenIMU platform has received the Frost & Sullivan 2018 New Product Innovation Award in the global inertial measurement unit (IMU) industry.

From ACEINNA Inc. 12 Mar 2019

Researchers Develop Novel Technology to Overcome Key Problems in Small Satellites

In the field of space exploration, CubeSats have evolved as major players. In fact, in the past few years, CubeSats have been increasingly used for commercial launches due to their compact size and comparatively low cost.

7 Feb 2019

Novel Quantum Cold-Atom Gravity Sensors Could Help Detect and Monitor Objects Beneath the Ground

A UK consortium of prominent scientific and engineering companies has collaborated to create a new industry of with the ability to detect and monitor objects under the ground in a better way compared to any existing technology, thus minimizing the need for investigative digging or drilling.

12 Nov 2018