Using LIDAR technology researchers study the impact of contrails on climate
In the skies over Virginia it is common to see contrails, cloud-like strips of condensed water left behind by aircraft at ...
Photos: NASA shows off technology used to study contrails formed by aircrafts
A Boeing 747 that functions as GE Aerospace’s Flying Test Bed sat on the runway towering over NASA Langley Research Center’s ...
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Mysterious plane with green lights is surveying the New River, but it’s not clear why
For the past several weeks, a plane has repeatedly flown over the New River in Southwest Virginia. The plane is mapping the ...
NASA Langley researchers studying contrails’ impact on climate
In the skies over Virginia it is common to see contrails, cloud-like strips of condensed water left behind by aircrafts at ...
PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident
A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found ...
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LiDAR Reveals Huge Mayan Civilization Buried in Mexican Jungle
The Nature Conservancy of Mexico captured the data through airborne LiDAR in 2013 as part of a forest monitoring project.
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RC Ekranoplan Uses LIDAR To Fly In Ground Effect
Thus, a Pixracer autopilot was installed, and combined with a small LIDAR device to accurately measure altitude above the ground. With some custom tweaks to the Ardupilot firmware, the craft was ...
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Wyoming Cloud Lidar (WCL)
To improve lidar linear depolarization measurements ... The field of view is controlled by a pinhole located at the focal plane of the receiving lens. The PMT packages include narrow band filters (0.3 ...