Candor Chasma animation using HiRISE DTM This is an animation flying over southwest Candor Chasma on Mars. It was created from NASA's HiRISE DTM and image data. The spatial resolution is 1 meter for the altimetry data and 0.25 meters for the image data. There is no vertical exageration. The animation was created using Mars Explorer and was captured in realtime. Data credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
MESSENGER 2nd Mercury Flyby (3/3) The MESSENGER spacecraft, gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet. The probe also has produced several science firsts and is returning hundreds of new photos and measurements of the planet's surface, atmosphere and magnetic field. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, spacecraft flew by Mercury shortly after 4:40 am EDT, on Oct. 6. It completed a critical gravity assist to keep it on course to orbit Mercury in 2011 and unveiled 30 percent of Mercury's surface never before seen by a spacecraft. "The region of Mercury's surface that we viewed at close range for the first time this month is bigger than the land area of South America," said Sean Solomon, principal investigator and director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. "When combined with data from our first flyby and from Mariner 10, our latest coverage means that we have now seen about 95 percent of the planet." The spacecraft's science instruments operated throughout the flyby. Cameras snapped more than 1200 pictures of the surface, while topography beneath the spacecraft was profiled with a laser altimeter. The comparison of magnetosphere observations from the spacecraft's first flyby in January with data from the probe's second pass has provided key new insight into the nature of Mercury's internal magnetic field and ...
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Civil Aviation : The Altimeter and Height Levels on an Airplane The altimeter tells the pilot how far the plane is from the ground, get expert tips and advice on aviation in this free video. Expert: Dave Keck Bio: Dave Keck has been in the air since the early 1980s when he flew with the Military Flying Club in Norfolk, Virginia. Filmmaker: Reggie Hayes
Pressure Altitude A project for Portland Community College's Helicopter CFI Ground (AVS260). This video demonstrates the teaching lecture method, using a whiteboard for visual aid. The lecture is on the definition, purpose, and calculation of pressure altitude.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Flyover of the lunar surface The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter provides detailed topography of the lunar surface. This flyover of the south pole of the moon illustrates some of LROs early altimetry data. Credit: NASA
Athabasca Valles crater animation using HiRISE DTM This animation shows a crater in Athabasca Valles on Mars. It was created from NASA's HiRISE DTM and image data. The spatial resolution is 1 meter for the altimetry data and 0.37 meters for the image data. There is no vertical exageration. The animation was created using Mars Explorer and was captured in realtime. Data credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
ssha_2003-2008.mov Visualisation of variations in global sea level "anomaly" (difference from mean sea level) 2003 to 2008 from satellite altimetry. Though there is an average global upward trend of around 3mm/year from the satellite data and the global network of tide stations, this visualisation clearly shows some areas have higher average sea level rise than others. Source NOAA Lab for Satellite Altimetry
PIPA Seamount Fly-through (short version) RT =0:45. Seamounts are submerged volcanic peaks that rise abruptly from the seafloor. Scientists have identified more than 45000 seamounts worldwide using satellite altimetry techniques. Collectively, seamounts represent one of the largest marine habitats on Earth. This fly-though takes you through the seamounts of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) in the Central Pacific. Video courtesy Greg Brost and Peter Etnoyer, Aquanautix Consulting.
1994: Clementine (NASA/DoD) Clementine (officially called the Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE)) was a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO, previously the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, or SDIO) and NASA. The objective of the mission was to test sensors and spacecraft components under extended exposure to the space environment and to make scientific observations of the Moon and the near-Earth asteroid 1620 Geographos. The spacecraft was launched on 25 January 1994 The Geographos observations were not made due to a malfunction in the spacecraft. The lunar observations made included imaging at various wavelengths in the visible as well as in ultraviolet and infrared, laser ranging altimetry, gravimetry, and charged particle measurements. These observations were for the purposes of obtaining multi-spectral imaging of the entire lunar surface, assessing the surface mineralogy of the Moon, obtaining altimetry from 60N to 60S latitude, and obtaining gravity data for the near side. There were also plans to image and determine the size, shape, rotational characteristics, surface properties, and cratering statistics of Geographos. Clementine carried 7 distinct experiments on-board: a UV/Visible Camera, a Near Infrared Camera, a Long Wavelength Infrared Camera, a High Resolution Camera, two Star Tracker Cameras, a Laser Altimeter, and a Charged Particle Telescope. The S-band transponder was used for communications, tracking, and the gravimetry ...
Cold Weather Altimetry, Cold Wx Altimetry, Cold Weather Altimeter Corrections, Cold Weather Flying Description of flying safely in cold weather. Describes limitations of barometric altime
Earth's Geoid Affected By Oceanic Currents And Topography Shaped by the rotation of Earth, the position of mountains, ocean trenches and variations in the density of Earth's interior, the irregular gravity field shapes the geoid. The geoid represents the shape of a hypothetical ocean surface at rest defined by variations in Earth's gravity. Forces such as the wind cause the actual sea surface to deviate from the geoid. Altimetry systems on ERS-2 and Envisat measure sea-surface height. Large-scale current systems flow along lines of equal topography, centred around the strongest gradients in these deviations of the sea surface. It is the combination of sea-surface height mapped by altimeters and the knowledge of the precise ocean geoid that will improve our understanding of surface currents and lead to a better knowledge of general ocean circulation patterns - crucial for understanding climate change. credit: ESA /AOES Medialab source: www.esa.int
Expanding earth my ass Why are so many people willing to believe a nutty 19th century idea over 50 years of solid and growing evidence for plate tectonics? Because scientists are always conspiring to keep the truth from us, of course. SOURCES: "Conspiracy of Science -- Earth is expanding" James Maxlow website at: Maxlow video "Yes! The Earth is expanding" Joe's channel is at: Joe's balloon-blowing video is at: The electric car, I am told, is an Atom. The video is at Electric car vs Ferrari on LaVolan channel at For an understanding of plate tectonics, just check out any geology textbook. There are many lines of evidence to the theory, so try googling the following: Sea floor spreading Magnetic stripes Oceanic ridges Mountain uplift Altimetry Subduction Make sure the websites are reputable, preferably from known academic institutions. For a more detailed look at the evidence, research hundreds of papers that have been written since the 1950s. Here are a few to get you started: Lithosphere plate-continental margin tectonics and the evolution of the Appalachian orogen JM BIRD... - Bulletin of the Geological Society ..., 1970 United plates of America, the birth of a craton: Early Proterozoic assembly and growth of Laurentia PF Hoffman - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1988 Change of tectono-stratigraphic regime in the Australian plate during the 99 Ma (mid-Cretaceous) and 43 Ma (mid ...
Sea Level Anomalies using TOPEX/Poseidon Altimetry Data This animation shows the changes in sea level height with respect to the mean sea surface over a period of four years and three months. It was created using TOPEX altimeter data from the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite mission. Clearly visible is the El Niño effect in the Pacific Ocean, during which the sea level height in front of the South American continent increases. Color coding of sea level height with respect to mean sea surface: [red: +50 cm, blue: -50 cm]. Authors in alphabetical order: J. Fernandez, W. Liang, C. Walter, Y. Wang. This work was part of a project for a lecture by Dr. T. Gruber, Earth Oriented Space Science and Technology, Technical University Munich.
Ocean Floor Affects Japan Tsunami Propagation www.FunToWatch.TV Stan Atamanchuk site http
Greenland and San Francisco Bay After little net change in the 1990s, Greenland is now melting and shedding billions of tons of ice, according to NASA satellite observations. This trend especially concerns scientists because mel***er and ice emptying into the ocean raise global sea level. Currently, sea level is increasing at about 1.25 inches per decade, and researchers estimate Greenland is contributing about 15% of this rate. Greenland holds a great deal of ice; if all of it returned to the ocean, sea level would rise about 23 feet. (Such a loss would take many centuries to play out, even with substantially more warming than today.) Why is Greenland losing ice? It appears linked in several ways to climate warming, which is strongest in the Arctic. First, surface melt of ice on Greenland has been increasing. Second, much of the mel***er drains to the base of glaciers and then lubricates the glaciers' flow toward the sea. And finally, where the glaciers plunge into the ocean, warmer water appears to be eroding the glacial tongues that help hold flow back. How do we know Greenland has been losing ice on balance? Data from two satellite missions have independently led to the same conclusion. ICESat has repeatedly measured the elevation profile of the Greenland Ice Sheet in great detail; changes over time, combined with estimates of ice compression and density, have allowed scientists to track changes in mass.Separately, the GRACE mission has provided a direct measure of mass change through time ...
MESSENGER 2nd Mercury Flyby (2/3) The MESSENGER spacecraft, gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet. The probe also has produced several science firsts and is returning hundreds of new photos and measurements of the planet's surface, atmosphere and magnetic field. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, spacecraft flew by Mercury shortly after 4:40 am EDT, on Oct. 6. It completed a critical gravity assist to keep it on course to orbit Mercury in 2011 and unveiled 30 percent of Mercury's surface never before seen by a spacecraft. "The region of Mercury's surface that we viewed at close range for the first time this month is bigger than the land area of South America," said Sean Solomon, principal investigator and director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. "When combined with data from our first flyby and from Mariner 10, our latest coverage means that we have now seen about 95 percent of the planet." The spacecraft's science instruments operated throughout the flyby. Cameras snapped more than 1200 pictures of the surface, while topography beneath the spacecraft was profiled with a laser altimeter. The comparison of magnetosphere observations from the spacecraft's first flyby in January with data from the probe's second pass has provided key new insight into the nature of Mercury's internal magnetic field and ...
Mars Gale crater animation using HiRISE DTM This animation shows the edge of the Gale crater interior mound. It was created from NASA's HiRISE DTM and image data. Gale crater is a potential MSL(Mars Science Laboratory) landing site which is due to launch in 2011. The spatial resolution is 1 meter for the altimetry data and 0.5 meters for the image data. There is no vertical exageration. The animation was created using Mars Explorer and was captured in realtime. Data credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Miami Beach Sport Fishing | Deep sea fishing Miami Beach Fish aboard JUMANJI a Miami Beach Sport fishing charter boat. Deep sea fishing in Miami with the use of Hilton's Real-time Navigators temperature, altimetry,and current charts. Sailfish fishing is popular, but we also specialize in shark fishing in Miami Beach, Fl. Also, tarpon fishing Miami is always red hot. We can accommodate any type charter from inshore to offshore destinations. Check us out on our site
PPL Airlaw -Aerodrome lights Pooleys Private Pilot's Licence - Air Law Audio CDs These 3 audio cds cover the JAA PPL Air Law and Operational Procedures syllabus. It is an ideal aid for both student pilots training for their licence and for qualified pilots wishing to update their knowledge. The 3 cds are divided into easy to access units. Sections include: • Rules of the Air • Aerodrome and Airspace • Air Traffic Services • Flight Rules and Altimetry • Operational Procedures • Airworthiness and Licensing Pooleys Private Pilot's Licence - Air Law Audio CDs These 3 audio cds cover the JAA PPL Air Law and Operational Procedures syllabus.
The Lagrangian Structure of Kuroshio Current from altimetric satellite dataset We introduce a new function as a global Lagrangian descriptor. The velocity data are the geostrophic surface current coming from satellite altimetry.
MarsTopology via Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) Assembly and false color of altimeter data from Martian Orbiter
Measuring Reservoir Heights via Satellite Altimetry Products for Global Flood Modeling Can future floods, economic loss, and saving lives be achieved through measuring reservoir heights? NASA Goddard's DEVELOP students are comparing near real-time altimetry satellite data and in-situ data to monitor and measure changes in water storage of downstream releases to aid in the mitigation global flood events.
Finite-Size Lyapunov Exponents from Altimetry - Kerguelen Data from : d'Ovidio et al., Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L17203 (2004). Lehahn et al. J. Geophys. Res. 112, C08005 (2007), LEGOS/CTOH, LOCEAN, ISC-PIF netCDF file size : 170 Mb Audio courtesy of Dead Kennedys (in "Bedtime for Democracy")
Exact Altimeter for iPhone by BitKnights You can purchase our app for North America: Europe: South America: Central America: Australia: Arabian Pensasula: China: India: Description: Are you bored with altitude meter applications which give you altitude as far from the truth as it can be. You need Exact Altimeter. Exact Altimeter uses different ways to determine your altitude. It has built in elevation database, and it can get your altitude from online altitude service. Furthermore, it shows you the altitude given by the built in GPS. (Please be aware, that the online altitude service and the database altitude means always the elevation of the ground, so if you are in a plane, they won't show your current altitude). Main features: - Built in elevation database - Capability of requesting the altitude from online service - Speed measurement and display - Displaying the name, distance and course of the center of the closest settlement - Displaying your current movement direction - Current position display - Possibility to use imperial or metric system for display - Possibility to switch off iphone's sleep system which turns off the display - Customizable display colors
Pressure/Altimetry Pt_2 Part 2 of a presentation on pressure and altimetry
Cold Weather Altimeter Corrections Learn how to use the ICAO Cold Temperature Error Table
Bill Patzert & Josh Willis, NASA's JPL - NASA 360 Bill Patzert & Josh Willis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory 25 November 2008, NASA 360, Season 1, Episode 5 About TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 altimetry satellites monitoring climate change. Josh at the beach, Bill at JPL very hip!
Finite-Size Lyapunov Exponents from Altimetry Data from : d'Ovidio et al., Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L17203 (2004). Lehahn et al. J. Geophys. Res. 112, C08005 (2007) LEGOS/CTOH, LOCEAN, ISC-PIF netCDF file size : 476MB with time constraint
Cylinder wake in the rotating fluid on the polar beta plane Laboratory modeling demonstrates the dynamics of the flow generated by a cylinder moving either Eastward or Westward on the polar beta plane. Polar beta plane is modeled in a rotating layer of fluid with parabolic free surface. One can see von Karman vortex streets behind the cylinder as well as inverted vortex streets and Rossby waves. The surface of the fluid is visualized by optical altimetry. For more details see (Iakov Afanassiev) www.physics.mun.ca/~yakov
Zumba Crater-Blender Animation-DTM with Color Altimetry Scale: 0.001 Binning: 12x12 Fast 200 frames-10 fps HiRise DTM and Color Altimetry Texture avalible at: hirise.lpl.arizona.edu Blender 2.55 beta: Import a HiRISE DTM formatted as a PDS IMG file Blender addon Wiki Page:
Ocean Surface Topography Mission The Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 is an international satellite mission that will extend into the next decade the continuous climate record of sea surface height measurements begun in 1992 by the joint NASA/Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Topex/Poseidon mission and continued in 2001 by the NASA/CNES Jason-1 mission. This multi-decadal record has already helped scientists study global sea level rise and better understand how ocean circula-tion and climate change are related. Developed and proven through the joint efforts of NASA and CNES, high-precision ocean altimetry measures the distance between a satellite and the ocean surface to within a few centimeters. Accurate observations of variations in sea surface height—also known as ocean topography—provide scientists with information about the speed and direction of ocean currents and heat stored in the ocean. This information, in turn, reveals global climate variations. With OSTM/Jason-2, ocean altimetry has come of age. The mission will serve as a bridge to transition collection of these measurements to the world's weather and climate forecasting agencies, which will use them for short- and seasonal-to-long-range weather and climate forecasting. Sea level rise is one of the most important consequences and indicators of global climate change. From Topex/Poseidon and Jason-1 we know mean sea level has risen by about three millimeters a year since 1993. This is about twice the estimates from tide ...
Exact Altimeter for iPad by BitKnights You can purchase our app for North America: Europe: South America: Central America: Australia: Arabian Pensasula: China: India: Description: Are you bored with altitude meter applications which give you altitude as far from the truth as it can be. You need Exact Altimeter. Exact Altimeter uses different ways to determine your altitude. It has built in elevation database, and it can get your altitude from online altitude service. Furthermore, it shows you the altitude given by the built in GPS. (Please be aware, that the online altitude service and the database altitude means always the elevation of the ground, so if you are in a plane, they won't show your current altitude). Main features: - Built in elevation database - Capability of requesting the altitude from online service - Speed measurement and display - Displaying the name, distance and course of the center of the closest settlement - Displaying your current movement direction - Current position display - Possibility to use imperial or metric system for display - Possibility to switch off iphone's sleep system which turns off the display - Customizable display colors
First LIDAR Observatory in Colombia First LIDAR Observatory in Colombia is located in Medellin chapter of the National University of Colombia. It was built by Alvaro E. Bastidas and Daniel J. Nisperuza from Laser and Spectroscopy Group at Physics School. I shot this video during my trip to Medellin, Colombia in October of 2010. Del Mar Photonics establish a subsidiary in this beautiful city to support South America customers. LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) is an optical remote sensing technology that measures properties of scattered light to find range and/or other information of a distant target. The prevalent method to determine distance to an object or surface is to use laser pulses. Like the similar radar technology, which uses radio waves, the range to an object is determined by measuring the time delay between transmission of a pulse and detection of the reflected signal. LIDAR technology has application in Geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, remote sensing and atmospheric physics. Applications of LIDAR include ALSM (Airborne Laser Swath Mapping), laser altimetry or LIDAR Contour Mapping. The acronym LADAR (Laser Detection and Ranging) is often used in military contexts
MESSENGER 2nd Mercury Flyby (1/3) The MESSENGER spacecraft, gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet. The probe also has produced several science firsts and is returning hundreds of new photos and measurements of the planet's surface, atmosphere and magnetic field. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, spacecraft flew by Mercury shortly after 4:40 am EDT, on Oct. 6. It completed a critical gravity assist to keep it on course to orbit Mercury in 2011 and unveiled 30 percent of Mercury's surface never before seen by a spacecraft. "The region of Mercury's surface that we viewed at close range for the first time this month is bigger than the land area of South America," said Sean Solomon, principal investigator and director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. "When combined with data from our first flyby and from Mariner 10, our latest coverage means that we have now seen about 95 percent of the planet." The spacecraft's science instruments operated throughout the flyby. Cameras snapped more than 1200 pictures of the surface, while topography beneath the spacecraft was profiled with a laser altimeter. The comparison of magnetosphere observations from the spacecraft's first flyby in January with data from the probe's second pass has provided key new insight into the nature of Mercury's internal magnetic field and ...
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Pilots License -Audio-AIR LAW Pooleys Private Pilot's Licence - Air Law Audio CDs These 3 audio cds cover the JAA PPL Air Law and Operational Procedures syllabus. It is an ideal aid for both student pilots training for their licence and for qualified pilots wishing to update their knowledge. The 3 cds are divided into easy to access units. Sections include: • Rules of the Air • Aerodrome and Airspace • Air Traffic Services • Flight Rules and Altimetry • Operational Procedures • Airworthiness and Licensing Pooleys Private Pilot's Licence - Air Law Audio CDs These 3 audio cds cover the JAA PPL Air Law and Operational Procedures syllabus.
Rising Sea Levels -- Changing Planet In the past century, as the climate has warmed, sea level rise has accelerated. Scientists predict it will only increase, and they're studying changes in the ocean and land to better understand how and why the water is rising. The Changing Planet series explores the impact that climate change is having on our planet, and is provided by the National Science Foundation (science360.gov & NBC Learn ( For related lesson plans, visit the Windows to the Universe project team at the National Earth Science Teachers Association at www.windows2
Pressure/Altimetry Pt 1 Part 1 of a presentation on atmospheric pressure and altimetry
Mojave crater 1080p This animation shows Mojave crater on Mars. It was created from NASA's HiRISE DTM and image data. The spatial resolution is 1 meter for the altimetry data and 0.25 meters for the image data. There is no vertical exageration. The animation was created using Mars Explorer and was captured in realtime. Data credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
WataraseJokersw: WataraseJokersw: Satellite Altimetry in Geodesy and Oceanography (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences): http://t.co/wRM1wwj
anassaadallah: anassaadallah: Giro d'Italia stages: planimetry and altimetry: http://t.co/yGMPZj2 via @addthis
marcogrimpeur: marcogrimpeur: 13.8.11 Climb of Mount #Catria H13 #bg 89 H15 bg 83, bike 3h 63km (1500d+, Catria+Palcano) H20,30 bg 107. Altimetry: http://t.co/eItp2AW
MasazumiYuensp: MasazumiYuensp: Satellite Altimetry For Geodesy, Geophysics And Oceanography: . (International Association of Geodesy Symposia): http://amzn.to/mGkIEY
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