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/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- With officials in Florida calling residential asphalt roof performance into question, homeowners everywhere are left wondering, what now?...

'The Universe in 100 Colors' unravels the wonders of color and the natural world.

Aerosol layer height (ALH) is a key parameter for assessing aerosol impacts on weather, climate, and atmospheric correction. Accurate ALH retrieval improves the understanding of aerosol-cloud interactions and aids in surface air quality monitoring.

The general health of forests can be estimated by the micro- and macronutrient content of tree leaves to help inform forest management decisions in light of climate change, species loss and other variables. Traditional methods of assessing nutrient levels in forests are expensive and labor-intensive.

Amidst challenges like a booming global population and diminishing arable land, plant phenotyping offers a way to automate agriculture and improve crop diagnostics. However, translating the precision of controlled-environment phenotyping to field conditions remains a hurdle, particularly in accurately measuring leaf color due to sunlight glare. Existing solutions, ranging from light scattering simulations to 3D…

Webb measured isotopes at the edge of the Solar System, hinting at chemistry.

Cloud-diving expeditions reveal the hidden physics of brewing snowstorms

Small modular reactors with power below 300 MW have the advantages of small specific mass, long lifetime, and flexible power supply, and they are suitable for providing power support for small and medium-sized towns with small populations and remote areas without grid coverage. In this paper, a small modular S-CO2-cooled molten salt reactor is proposed, and the design of a 10 MW small modular chlorine salt fast…

With the proliferation of satellite trails, astronomers see a lot more streaks in their images.

Both the geometric and spectral information of the target are available with the hyperspectral light detection and ranging (LiDAR) in a single measurement. This advanced technique extends the scope of imaging spectroscopy to spectral three-dimensional (3D) sensing.

Modern cameras and sensors, together with image processing algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), are ushering in a new era of precision agriculture and plant breeding. In the near future, farmers and scientists will be able to quantify various plant traits by simply pointing special imaging devices at plants.

A team of material scientists and engineers affiliated with a host of institutions in China took a new look at the incandescent light bulb and found a way to improve its efficiency. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes the changes they made to their test bulbs and how much improvement they saw.

Google wants its users to stay "cool" for the summer!

The radar properties of icy satellites of Jupiter and Saturn commonly differ by more than an order of magnitude from those of rocky planets because of the lower absorptivity of water ice than that of rock.

A study co-authored by Southwest Research Institute Senior Research Scientist Dr. Jason Hofgartner explains the unusual radar signatures of icy satellites orbiting Jupiter and Saturn. Their radar signatures, which differ significantly from those of rocky worlds and most ice on Earth, have long been a vexing question for the scientific community.

Atlas Roofing Corporation is excited to announce the addition of Pinnacle® Sun shingles to its Pinnacle® family of products.

It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy.Launched on December 25 last year and fully operational since July, the telescope offers glimpses of the universe that were inaccessible to us before. Like the Hubble Space Telescope, the JWS...

8K detail is more affordable here, but still has trouble making its case

8K detail is more affordable here, but still has trouble making its case

Measurement(s) RGB orthophoto image • Infrared orthophoto image • Radar backscattering • Hyperspectral image • Topographic measurements • Landcover classification Technology Type(s) Airborne camera • Satellite SAR sensor • Satellite hyperspectral sensor • LiDAR and optical airborne sensors • Optical and hyperspectral sensors