Sentence examples for estimates of ground from inspiring English sources

The accuracy of canopy cover retrieval was highly sensitive to estimates of ground cover reflectivity and to ground sampling density.

Washington and Oregon building codes incorporate estimates of ground shaking expected from a Cascadia earthquake.

The documents, prepared by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, present one of the most comprehensive cost estimates of ground zero health issues.

The US Army Corps of Engineers TM5-855-1 manual is widely used for estimates of ground shock parameters.

Estimates of ground cover from the imagery were compared with a subset of observed ground cover estimates to determine map accuracy.

The latter data provide estimates of ground concentrations of the three main radionuclides potassium, thorium and uranium used in the estimation of heat production.

This tendency was also found for estimates of ground-storey and mid-storey species diversity and density (Figure 3a b).

The objective was to set-up an integrated monitoring system to obtain estimates of ground-level O3 concentrations over the whole study area (3513 km2) in order to fill data gaps and cover reporting requirements.

But in the current study, researchers also calculated long-term exposure levels using satellite-based estimates of ground-level PM2.5.

In recent years, the application of satellite remote sensing to air quality research [ 9, 10], especially the application of aerosol optical depth (AOD) to assessing surface air quality [ 11], has greatly promoted the estimates of ground-level PM2.5 concentrations.

The emergence of remote sensing based estimates of ground-level PM2.5 (van Donkelaar et al. 2010) now makes it possible to include rural areas in large-scale air pollution studies, as was recently demonstrated in a Canadian national-level cohort study (Crouse et al. 2012).