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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Earthwatching
Author: Earthwatching III
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Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A collection of scripts from "Earthwatch," a radio program exploring environmental trends and concerns.
Earthwatching II
Author: The Earth Observer
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ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Novel AI Applications for Advancing Earth Sciences
Author: Yadav, SudeshPublisher: IGI Global
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Earth Sciences industry faces a new challenge - the need for accurate, efficient, and reliable methods to monitor and predict geological phenomena and environmental changes. As climate change, earthquakes, and other natural disasters become more frequent and severe, the necessity for advanced tools and techniques is paramount. Traditional methods often fall short in providing the precision and speed required to address these critical issues. Geologists and earth scientists who are grappling with the urgent problem of utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize their field, will find the solution within the pages of Novel AI Applications for Advancing Earth Sciences. This book offers the research community concepts expanding upon the fusion of AI technology with earth sciences. By leveraging advanced AI tools, such as convolutional neural networks, support vector machines, artificial neural networks, and the potential of remote sensing satellites, this book transforms the identification of geological features, geological mapping, soil classification, and gas detection. Scientists can now predict earthquakes and assess the probability of climate change with unprecedented accuracy. Additionally, the book explains how the optimization of algorithms for specific tasks substantially reduces the time complexity of earth observations, leading to an unprecedented leap in accuracy and efficiency.
The Legacy of Earth
Author: Brent NicholsPublisher: Brent Nichols
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
It has been two thousand years since mankind first began interstellar space travel. In that time, our species has developed unimaginable technological power. We've cured every illness, fixed every disability, and even stopped aging itself. We've abolished war, automated labor, and removed every barrier preventing individuals from pursuing their passions. In this age of abundance few things challenge modern humans. They have access to everything they could ever want in life except a sense of what to do with it. One man, grappling with this issue, adventures across the universe in search of answers.
The Role of Small Satellites in NASA and NOAA Earth Observation Programs
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309069823
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Remote observations of Earth from space serve an extraordinarily broad range of purposes, resulting in extraordinary demands on those at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and elsewhere who must decide how to execute them. In research, Earth observations promise large volumes of data to a variety of disciplines with differing needs for measurement type, simultaneity, continuity, and long-term instrument stability. Operational needs, such as weather forecasting, add a distinct set of requirements for continual and highly reliable monitoring of global conditions. The Role of Small Satellites in NASA and NOAA Earth Observation Programs confronts these diverse requirements and assesses how they might be met by small satellites. In the past, the preferred architecture for most NASA and NOAA missions was a single large spacecraft platform containing a sophisticated suite of instruments. But the recognition in other areas of space research that cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and robustness may be enhanced by using small spacecraft has raised questions about this philosophy of Earth observation. For example, NASA has already abandoned its original plan for a follow-on series of major platforms in its Earth Observing System. This study finds that small spacecraft can play an important role in Earth observation programs, providing to this field some of the expected benefits that are normally associated with such programs, such as rapid development and lower individual mission cost. It also identifies some of the programmatic and technical challenges associated with a mission composed of small spacecraft, as well as reasons why more traditional, larger platforms might still be preferred. The reasonable conclusion is that a systems-level examination is required to determine the optimum architecture for a given scientific and/or operational objective. The implied new challenge is for NASA and NOAA to find intra- and interagency planning mechanisms that can achieve the most appropriate and cost-effective balance among their various requirements.
NASA Procurement in the Earth-space Economy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on SciencePublisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Earth and Sky
Author: Edward Singleton HoldenPublisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Set in the jazz world of the 1950s, the novel features Tom Hickey, the saxophone playing private eye. He tries to clear the name of an old girlfriend, charged with murder after a nightclub fire. The real arsonists reply by kidnapping his wife.
Reeds Introductions: Principles of Earth Observation for Marine Engineering Applications
Author: Christopher LaversPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472950003
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
An essential, introductory text for marine engineering students covering the fundamental earth-observation concepts that underpin all space-based terrestrial and maritime remote sensing methods. Satellite-based earth observation provides key weather and environmental information to all nations, including key maritime users such as navy, coastguard and merchant vessels. The application and understanding of electromagnetic wave-based devices and sensors is an established merchant sea service requirement, found in the Standards in Training and Certification in Watchkeeping (STCW95) qualification and various Maritime Coastguard Agency exams. It is vital that maritime and land-based users have a basic understanding of the concepts upon which these essential earth-observation systems now operate. The book is written as simply as possible to support the growing numbers of overseas students for whom English is not their first language. It provides a firm foundation prior to reading and studying of the Reeds Marine Engineering series, and is complementary to other volumes in the Introductions series. Maritime and land-based students and scientists having read this easy-to-read volume will be better prepared for more in-depth study.