How to Use remote sensing in a Sentence

remote sensing

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  • The methane emissions could then be detected by remote sensing satellites in space.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2023
  • Researchers examined a section of the site with drones equipped with lidar, a remote sensing technology that uses lasers to scan a landscape.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Lidar, also known as light detection and ranging, is a remote sensing method that uses laser waves to measure distances.
    — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
  • Deploying drones and other remote sensing technologies could hasten the hunt.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The plan calls for using new technology and remote sensing techniques to conduct an inventory of water loss across more than 1,000 public water systems in the state this year.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The result suggests the remote sensing technique could be used to monitor explosive events—natural or human—hundreds of times smaller than before.
    — Byjonathan O’Callaghan, science.org, 12 May 2023
  • In recent years, tribal nations around the United States have begun to use technologies like remote sensing surveys and ground-penetrating radar to scour locations for evidence of burial sites.
    — Zach Levitt, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The approach is a bit different from other remote sensing approaches that may measure microwaves or radio waves, and is more detailed than other spectral imaging technology that works with fewer bands of light.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 27 July 2023
  • Japan has launched a new optical reconnaissance satellite to boost the country’s remote sensing capabilities, Space News reports.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Currently, remote sensing by satellite is the only monitoring for the remote volcano, which lacks any seismic monitoring.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2010
  • Still, this new private data trove may be less visible to remote sensing engineers and scientists than publicly available, if not yet centralized, data and software produced by NASA and other government agencies.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The planet’s oceans, and particularly seagrass ecosystems, remain poorly mapped across many regions, mainly because of the difficulties of measuring them with remote sensing devices like satellites, authors said.
    — Laura Millan Lombrana, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2022
  • As much as advances in remote sensing technology have made mapping environmental changes more possible, data collected on the ground is integral to creating a fuller picture.
    — Joseph Hincks, Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The initiatives the United States has pursued—advances in anti-submarine and anti-satellite warfare, in missile accuracy and potency, and in wide-area remote sensing—have rendered Russia’s nuclear forces all the more vulnerable.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • The researchers suggest remote sensing operations and disaster rescue, but it could also be used to conduct civil and military surveys, capturing incredible video footage, and inspire sci-fi authors.
    — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 8 June 2023
  • However, remote sensing techniques, such as satellite images, GPS data and acoustic monitoring, are increasingly popular ways to track wildlife populations and see how creatures respond to changes in their environments.
    — Wendy M. Erb, Fortune Well, 25 June 2023
  • The authors also called for more research into disease-resistant crops as well as early disease detection through artificial intelligence and remote sensing technology.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 4 May 2023
  • Environmental factors associated with these changes during the same period were collected using remote sensing data, according to the paper.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The effort relied on oral histories of local tribes, remote sensing equipment aboard satellites, U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps, century-old aerial photographs, historical archives, museum collections and law centers.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Through the university’s Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing, the colleges had developed international collaborations in advancing analysis of remote sensing data and developing open-source software for applications and education.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2023

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