Sentence examples for land observations from inspiring English sources
The DONET ocean-bottom seismic observation network, deployed immediately above the source region of earthquakes along the Nankai trough, has much enhanced our ability to detect earthquakes off the Kii Peninsula compared with detection based on land observations alone.
The Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) sensor aboard ALOS is an L-band SAR scanner at the wavelength of 1270 MHz enables all-weather land observations without the influence of atmosphere.
Ship and land observations are also used, when available.
As the system moved through the southern Lesser Antilles, ship and land observations suggested a circulation had developed, signalling the formation of a tropical depression in the extreme southeastern Caribbean Sea early on August 29.
advanced land observation satellite.
Nowadays, as the development of the level of the land observation technology constantly improved, the demanded of the image quality are increasing rise.
Considerable interest has been given to forming an international collaboration to develop a virtual moderate spatial resolution land observation constellation through aggregation of data sets from comparable national observatories such as the US Landsat, the Indian ResourceSat and related systems.
We propose an Earth-observation mission Land Observation from Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (LOGEO) to place two spin-scan-stabilized 500-m resolution 9-band VNIR SWIR imagers in a near-geosynchronous inclined orbit, allowing 15 min observations with a full range of daily sun angles and 30∘ variations in view angle.
These results could not have been obtained with on-land observations alone, which indicates the importance of DONET for monitoring seismic activity along the Nankai trough.
To evaluate the quality of the DONET hypocenter catalogue, we compared our result with the JMA hypocenter catalogue, which is based on both on-land observations and the JMA in-line OBSs.
The data suggest that winds strong enough to move dust and sand on Venus are rather common (more so than is typical for Mars, Earth or Titan), a prediction testable with radar interferometry on future orbital missions and/or from landed observations.
