In addition, with its background mission, RapidEye aims at covering Europe at least once a year cloud free at 5 m resolution during the vegetation season.
Regular acquisition strategies (e.g., Sentinel-1, COSMO-SkyMed volcano background mission, ENVISAT in some parts of the world) has meant that InSAR measurements have already been used for monitoring the development of unrest or eruptions lasting weeks to years (e.g., Poland, 2014; Sigmundsson et al., 2015a, b).
Unlike the common background missions defined for most fine-resolution Earth Observation satellites, the observation strategy was implemented as a top-level foreground mission with a priority second only to that of special observation requests and emergency observations and sensor calibration.
Twenty years ago, scientist George Smoot announced that Nasa's Cosmic Background Explorer mission - Cobe - had observed radiation from "the oldest and largest structures" in the early Universe.
"This is the first event like this that we've ever held".. Going to talk about Background and mission as a company, the move into social, and finally, today's announcement.
Background: The mission of the ASF is to aid the recovery of survivors of acid violence to a condition as near as possible to that of their pre-attack situation and eventually eliminate acid attacks in Bangladesh.
Against that background, a roving mission was sent to the United States in 1868, which then proceeded to London and Berlin.
His French expertise, his Jewish background, his American mission and, one suspects, a mis-spent political youth can all help to explain particular, and not always felicitous, points of emphasis.
Here's lots of background on the mission and more imagery As I've written before (Astonishing Views of a Luminous, Bustling Planet), thank goodness Congress had the wisdom to include in the Space Act of 1958 a requirement that the new agency communicate its findings to the public.
We decided to dig a little deeper and delve into their company background because their mission addresses the lack of demand for local technical talent in Brazil.
Author: Lewin, E. Background In its Mission Statement in 1996, UNICEF declared that its work be guided by the standards and principles established by the Convention and mandated the organization to advocate for the protection of children's rights and strive to establish them as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behavior.
