The outlet glaciers to the embayment of the Larsen-B Ice Shelf started to accelerate soon after the ice shelf disintegrated in March 2002. We analyse high resolution radar images of the TerraSAR-X satellite, launched in June 2007, to map the motion of outlet glaciers in detail. The frontal velocities are used to estimate the calving fluxes for 2008/2009. As reference for pre-collapse conditions...

In this letter we propose a new observable for measuring the general relativistic Lense–Thirring effect with artificial satellites in the gravitational field of the Earth. It consists of the difference of the perigee rates of two satellites placed in identical orbits with supplementary inclinations. As in the well known LAGEOS–LARES project in which, instead, the sum of the residuals of the nod...

QuitWorks is a Massachusetts referral program that links health care organizations, providers, and patients to the state's tobacco cessation quitline and provides feedback reporting. Designed collaboratively with all major Massachusetts health plans, QuitWorks was launched in April 2002. In 2010, approximately 340 institutions and practices used QuitWorks. Between April 2002 and March 2011, app...

ince the breakthrough of the first sub-meter resolution commercial earth observation satellite IKO-NOS in 1999, many additional high resolution satellites have been launched. In addition, more countries now have their own high resolution satellites. Different applications have been using high resolution satellite imagery such as mapping, digital elevation extraction, and most notably, consumer ...

A] paperless system would significantly reduce delays in all aspects of the dissemination cycle. The composition process itself should be speeded up and so should the whole interaction among writers, publishers, and referees (Lan-caster, 1978, p. 127). The BOAI is a public statement and plan of action that calls for``open access to peer-reviewed research articles in all academic fields and the ...

A Climate Hyperspectral Infrared Radiance Product (CHIRP) is introduced combining data from the Atmospheric Sounder (AIRS) on NASA’s EOS-AQUA platform, Cross-Track (CrIS) sounder SNPP and continuing with CRIS sounders NOAA/NASA Joint Polar Satellite Series (JPSS) of polar satellites. The CHIRP product converts parent instrument’s radiances to a common Spectral Response Function (SRF) removes in...

PROMICS-3 is a plasma experiment flown in the Russian project Interball. It performs three-dimensional (3D) measurements of ions in the energy range 4 eV—70 keV with mass separation and of electrons in the energy range 12 eV—35 keV. The Interball project consists of two main satellites, the Tail Probe and the Auroral Probe, each with one subsatellite. The Interball Tail Probe was launched on 3 ...

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is an earth-viewing sensor that flies on the Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua satellites, launched in 1999 and 2002, respectively. MODIS scans a swath width of 2330 km that is sufficiently wide to provide nearly complete global coverage every two days from a polar-orbiting, sun-synchronous, platform at an altitude of 705 km. M...