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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
LED tube lights, designed as replacements for T8/T10/T12 fluorescent bulbs, represent a significant portion of the growing commercial LED lighting market. According to the United States Department...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA funds more atmospheric research by far than any other government agency or private concern internationally. More than 100 different instruments have been developed and flown in support of NASA...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
As a step toward taking active global measurements from space, ITT Exelis and NASA Langley Research Center completed a flight campaign that calculated carbon dioxide over various surfaces...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Kaydon Bearings Division Muskegon, MI 231-755-3741www.kaydonbearings.com
How do you collect data from stars thousands of light years away while positioning a 300-ton, 10-meter telescope to within...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The first spectrometer data from the Mars Rover Curiosity has made its way back to Earth, analyzing the plasma light captured during laser excitation of rocks and soil on the...
News: Software
Improved Method for Detecting and Measuring Bridge Damage
Kansas State University researchers Hayder Rasheed, associate professor of civil engineering, and Yacoub Najjar, professor of civil engineering, are collaborating to better detect and measure damage in concrete bridges. The researchers have created a bridge health index - a rating system...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA is currently validating the Orion spacecraft design for human spaceflight. Three systems developed by G Systems were used for testing the new Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV)....
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Genesis HighSpeed data acquisition system and Perception software HBM Marlboro, MA 508-624-4500 www.hbm.com
NASA Kennedy Space Center, based in Cape Canaveral, FL, has one of the highest rates...
News: RF & Microwave Electronics
Paving a Simpler Path to High-Power Terahertz Radiation
Coherent terahertz radiation has historically been very difficult to generate, and the search for an easy-to-use, compact source continues today.
Northwestern University researchers recently developed a simpler way to generate single-chip terahertz radiation — a discovery that could benefit...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
As any dolphin could tell us, sound travels well in water. While water absorbs electromagnetic radiation and light waves over relatively short distances, sound travels widely and...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Data communications in industrial environments can present special problems. Lines must be run over long distances, often ranging from thousands of feet to several miles, indoors and...
Articles: Imaging
The NASA World Wind Java computer program developed at Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, has won NASA’s 2009 Software of the Year award. Software engineers at Ames created the NASA World Wind...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Data acquisition and distribution systemsG SystemsRichardson, TX972-234-6000 www.gsystems.com
G Systems has delivered a Data Acquisition System (DAS) for the Orion crew...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Genesis HighSpeed data acquisition products HBM Marlborough, MA 800-578-4260 www.hbm.com/highspeed
In order to protect the space shuttle from lightning strikes while it is outside the Vehicle...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Dewetron Wakefield, RI
The DEWE-43 is an ultraportable data acquisition system that includes eight 24-bit dynamic analog input channels with >100 dB dynamic range; eight synchronous counters for recording...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Stereology, a tool that became popular in the late ‘90s, is used to quantify properties of 3D objects from 2D sections through an object (such as microscope slides of brain tissue)....
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Dewetron USA, Wakefield, RI, has introduced the DEWE-43-V, an ultra-portable data acquisition system that includes eight 24-bit dynamic analog input channels with >100 dB dynamic range; eight...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Heidenhain Encoders Help TRW Machine Ford SUV Parts
TRW has been making parts for the automotive industry for many years, but when Ford Automotive considered giving them the contract to manufacture the rear toe-links for their Navigator and Expedition SUVs, their traditional lathes were considered inadequate for the task. The solution was to...
Briefs: Imaging
The crew activity analyzer (CAA) is a system of electronic hardware and software for automatically identifying patterns of group activity among crew members working together in an office, cockpit, workshop, laboratory, or...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Coded optic mask foil Dynamics Research Corp. (DRC) Andover, MA 978-475-9090 www.drc.com
The High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE-2) satellite was launched into...
Briefs: Information Technology
An alternative approach has been devised for encoding image data in compliance with JPEG 2000, the most recent still-image data- compression standard of the Joint Photographic Experts Group....
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
STEREO observatories and Solar Probe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel, MD 240-228-5000 www.jhuapl.edu
NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is comprised of two...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Laboratory for Global Health Observation University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health Birmingham, AL 205-934-4993 www.regardsstudy.org
A partnership between...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
ToughDisk® 3500 SATA Rugged Hard Disk Formation, Inc. Moorestown, NJ 856-234-5020 www.formation.com
Formation’s ToughDisk® 3500 SATA Rugged Hard Disk has been selected by...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
RTAX-S field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) Actel Mountain View, CA 650-318-4200 www.actel.com
Actel’s RTAX-S field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are aboard...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
LabVIEW FPGA National Instruments Austin, TX 888-280-7645 www.ni.com
NASA’s next-generation successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), features...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Modern digital technology and a little imagination have led to today’s most popular devices, like the MP3 player — a tiny digital music player that you can carry in your shirt pocket, and...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
3Dconnexion(r), a Logitech company, San Jose, CA, has released two new 3D navigation devices, SpaceNavigator and SpaceExplorer, that provide designers with intuitive 3D computer navigation control. SpaceNavigator is an...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
iPORT PT1000-CL IP Engine Pleora Technologies Ottawa, ON, Canada 613-270-0625 www.pleora.com
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