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Small Satellites to Study Interference of Northern Lights with GPS Navigation

Researchers at the University of Oslo (UiO) are on a mission to find out the reason behind the interference of northern lights with satellite communications, GPS navigation and radio communications. They will be launching 20 satellites with unique small instruments to find out the happenings in plasma clouds.

15 May 2012

Peratech Use QTC Material to Engineer Novel Nose Sensor Technology

Peratech's Electronic Nose sensor

From Peratech Ltd 12 May 2012

UV Stealth Technology for Navy Jet Aircraft

The Pentagon's called on defence manufacturers to come up with a system that can deal with ultra violet energy in broadly the same way that present-day stealth aircraft scatter radar waves. In its own words, it's after a ‘UV obscurant device' capable of being ‘dispersed from an aircraft' that can work alongside the suite of countermeasures already in use, such as infrared flare releasers.

9 May 2012

NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder - Effective Application for Global Weather Prediction

AIRS, built by BAE Systems, Boston, under the direction of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is one of six instruments flying on NASA's Aqua spacecraft as part of NASA's Earth Observing System. AIRS, along with its partner microwave instrument, the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A), has faithfully measured our planet's atmospheric temperature, water vapor, clouds and greenhouse gases with unprecedented accuracy and stability. Over the past decade, AIRS and AMSU-A have improved our understanding of Earth's global water and energy cycles, climate change and trends and how Earth's climate system is responding to increased greenhouse gases.

9 May 2012

Fiber-Optic Geophone Superior to Magnet and Coil Geophone Sensors

US Seismic Systems (USSI) and Northrop Grumman have entered into fiber-optic technology licensing agreement.

9 May 2012

Lockheed Martin launch their first UAV with Weapon Capabilities

Lockheed Martin's have launched their first shadow hawk munition that will service the US militaries and several foreign militaries.

3 May 2012

Sensorex - Submersible S8000 System to monitor pH in Wastewater

S8000 modular pH sensor platform.

1 May 2012

READI Mitigation Network GPS Monitoring System Improves Earthquake Warnings

The National Science Foundation, NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Department of Defense, have supported the development of the new Real-time Earthquake Analysis for Disaster (READI) Mitigation Network. Data from this network may help in declaring accurate tsunami warnings and providing rapid support to the affected people and areas.

From National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 26 Apr 2012

CAS DataLoggers Supplies Remote Structural Monitoring Solution for Copper Mine

CAS DataLoggers has supplied dataTaker DT80 intelligent data loggers and dataTaker CEM20 channel expansion modules to a copper mining company for monitoring its structure. Potentially dangerous situations such as subsidence or ground movement had to be monitored for ensuring the safety of the machinery and the miners.

From CAS DataLoggers 5 Apr 2012

Report on Environmental Sensing and Monitoring Technologies Market

Research and Markets has expanded its product offering with a new report titled "Global Environmental Sensing and Monitoring Technologies Market 2011-2014."

23 Mar 2012