Sentence examples for radiometer from inspiring English sources
noun
A device that measures radiant energy.
In 1944 he developed a microwave radiometer that has become an integral component of most modern radio telescopes.
SAC-D contained other instruments, such as a microwave radiometer that complemented Aquarius by measuring rainfall and wind speed over the oceans.
SAC-D contains other instruments such as an infrared camera (partly built by the Canadian Space Agency) to study forest fires and volcanoes and a microwave radiometer that complements Aquarius by measuring rainfall and wind speed over the oceans.
The radiometer measures changes in the ocean's brightness in three beams in radio waves.
Among his other contributions were the explanation of the radiometer and an early absolute determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat.
Radio telescopes vary widely, but they all have two basic components: (1) a large radio antenna and (2) a sensitive radiometer, or radio receiver.
The TIM would have used four radiometers designed to measure the solar irradiance to an accuracy of 0.01 percent.
Seasat carried radiometers for observations at visible, infrared, and microwave wavelengths, along with radar scatterometers, imaging radar, and an altimeter.
Another remote-sensing technique involves the use of satellite-borne infrared and microwave radiometers to measure radiant energy released from the surface of the ocean.
In our determination to access unseen worlds, we have invented microscopes and telescopes, thermometers and radiometers and sonar and seismographs, X-rays and injectable dyes and CAT scans and magnetic resonance imaging.
Herring, a thirty-eight-year-old science writer, heads a team of five colleagues at Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, who hunt for vivid images amid the reams of data gathered by cameras and radiometers aboard satellites, the shuttle, and even the International Space Station.
