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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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Photonics/Optics
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: Materials
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
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
580412 SE 20 Power Amplifier Package StratEdge Corp. San Diego, CA 858-569-5000 www.stratedge.com
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Precision temperature data loggers Veriteq Instruments Richmond, BC, Canada 604-273-6850 www.veriteq.com
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A six-legged robot resembling an insect and a legless segmented robot resembling a worm (see figure) have been proposed as prototypes of biomorphic explorers small, mobile, exploratory robots that...
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