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Conch Reef Survey for NASA’s NEEMO 15 Project
Dr. Art Trembanis’ Coastal Sediments, Hydrodynamics & Engineering Lab (CSHEL) has been pretty busy lately. Not long ago I did a post about the prototype sub-bottom profiler section that he added to his Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) (see: Sub-Bottom Profiling using an … Continue reading
Posted in AUV/ROV, Science and Technology, Sensors
Tagged AUV, CEOE, CShel, NASA, NEEMO, UD
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STS-134 NASATweetup is only half over
I’m back from the Kennedy Space Center and the first half of the STS-134 NASATweetup. We got through most of the activities slated for Day #1 – which included meeting the ~149 other #NASATweetup attendees, a demo of the Extravehicular … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Outreach, Science and Technology
Tagged Endeavour, NASA, NASATweetup, Space Shuttle
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Flat Samantha Is Coming to the STS-134 NASA Tweetup
Flat Samantha is in the house! I was contacted by young Samantha (pictured left – the non-flat one) to see if I had room for Flat Samantha to ride with us to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when we … Continue reading
NASATweetup for the Final Endeavour (STS-134) Launch
It’s official – I’m heading to Kennedy Space Center in sunny Florida for the Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-134) launch as part of what they call a “#NASATweetup”. I follow @NASA via my personal Twitter account – @cpuguru – and when … Continue reading
Posted in Satellite, Science and Technology, Sensors
Tagged Endeavor, NASA, NASATweetup, Space Shuttle, STS134
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Polar Orbiting Satellite Receiving Station
The video above is a quick screencast NASA JPL’s Eyes on the Earth application, which shows the tracks of various satellites orbiting the globe. It’s a really cool application that gives a top-notch overview of some of the satellites currently … Continue reading
Posted in IT Stuff, Satellite, Science and Technology
Tagged CEOE, NASA, NOAA, satellite, SeaSpace, Sensor
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New Polar and Geosynchronous Satellite Receivers for Delaware
A few weeks ago they fired up a new satellite receiving station from SeaSpace at the University of Delaware’s main campus in Newark, DE. Two receivers were brought online, one for L-Band reception from Geosynchronous Satellites and one for X/L-band … Continue reading
Turning Satellite Data into Google Earth Maps: It’s Easy!
As a new grad student in the ORB (Ocean exploration, Remote Sensing, and Biogeography) lab at the University of Delaware under Dr. Matthew Oliver, I (along with my cohort Danielle Haulsee) were tasked with learning to write code in R. … Continue reading