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Scarlet Participated in Big5 Dubai
At Big5, an International & Building Construction Exhibition held in Dubai World Trade Center, Scarlet Tech presented wireless instruments such as anemometers, sound meter, radar safety camera, and products like thermal image glass, explosion proof flashlights, IP 67 rated waterproof hard case, thermal image glass, and automatic car umbrella. Scarlet Tech’s most well-known line of ...
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NASA To Launch Ocean Wind Monitor To Space Station
In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean-surface wind speed and direction. The ISS-RapidScat instrument will help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring, and understanding of how ocean-atmosphere interactions ...
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Blowin` in the wind
MIT students and staff worked together last month to install wind-monitoring equipment on a lighting post in the west campus athletic fields to evaluate whether to erect a wind turbine there in the spring. The planned turbine, a Skystream 3.7 with a rated output of 2.4 kilowatts, about enough to power an average home, is a gift from Philip Deutch as a tribute to his father, Institute Professor ...
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Fatal crane collapse continues happening
Followed by the fatal crane collapsing in Seattle in April and Dallas in June this year, last Sunday evening, another construction crane fell and sliced through residential buildings in New Jersey during storms. Luckily, no one was injured this time. Since the construction industry has grown, catastrophes like these have happened across the country in recent years. The extensive damages not ...
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WaterWorld Magazine: OMI Industries Helps Colorado Springs Utilities Be a Good Neighbor
In the wastewater treatment arena, being fully productive while also combating odors can be a major challenge – especially when it comes to dealing with potential complaints from neighboring residents and businesses. The Colorado Springs Utilities faced this exact scenario with its Las Vegas Street Water Resource Recovery Facility. With urban development continuing around the facility, ...
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Fulcrum3D Sodar assesses resources for green hydrogen specialist Infinite Blue Energy
Green Hydrogen specialist Infinite Blue Energy have completed the installation of a Fulcrum3D SODAR (Sonic Detection and Ranging) weather monitoring system at IBE’s landmark green hydrogen project Arrowsmith. The data collected from the SODAR will support the Final Investment Decision (FID) and allow fine tuning of the final design of power infrastructure. The SODAR system analyses local ...
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Onset introduces new weather station starter kit
Onset Computer Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of data loggers, today introduced the HOBO Weather Station Starter Kit, a new weather monitoring kit that combines the company’s most rugged, research-grade data logging weather station with a suite of plug-and-play weather sensors. Ideal for agricultural research, ecology studies, wind monitoring, and other applications, the new weather ...
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First global wind speed data from UK TechDemoSat-1 open new prospects for weather monitoring and forecasting
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has developed the first ever global wind speed products based on reflected GPS signals, using data from the UK TechDemoSat-1 satellite. This demonstrates the potential of this technique to improve sampling of ocean surface winds, as well as improve weather monitoring and forecasting by complementing existing satellite measurements from scatterometers and ...
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Technology Power - Leice Provides 3D Wind Field Monitoring Services for the Emergent Fire Fighting at the Laoshan BeiLu Mountain
On the afternoon of April 19, a mountain fire broke out at the junction of Chengyang District and Laoshan District in Qingdao. After receiving the notification from the municipal emergency management department, Qingdao Leice Transient Technology Co., Ltd. quickly started the emergency response, and cooperated with Ocean University of China to form an emergency service team. The scanning Lidar ...
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Alaskan seafood processor fined $135,000 for clean water act violations (AK)
Highland Light Seafoods, LLC, an Alaskan seafood processor headquartered in Seattle, has agreed to pay a $135,000 penalty to settle federal Clean Water Act violations, according to an EPA order. Based on an inspection in December 2008, EPA found that the Highland Light Seafoods" 160 foot catcher-processor vessel, Westward Wind, was not in compliance with its National Pollutant Discharge ...
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Introducing the all-new CR:308/310 and Optimus+ sound level meters
We’re really excited to announce the arrival of two new sound level meters, which are sure to enhance the Cirrus family of instruments: the CR:308/310 and the Optimus+. Both of these products have been designed with ease-of-use as their heart, making your job of monitoring and measuring noise levels easier than ever before. With a range of new features, these new sound level meters will ...
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RainWise becomes North America`s Exclusive Distributor for LCJ Land-based
RainWise Inc. has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with LCJ Capteurs to serve and support North America, effective March 1, 2015. For several years RainWise has been looking for a partner that could provide us with a superior Ultrasonic sensor. We are excited to announce that the LCJ Capteurs sensor has met or exceeded strict criteria RainWise had outlined. This product line, ...
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Popular TV Programme trusts XL2 for Noise Monitoring of Wind Farms
Eco Eye, Irelands longest running and most successful environmental documentary series recently turned their attention to Wind Energy using the XL2 sound level meter and weather protected microphone to monitor noise from one of Irelands largest wind farms. In the episode broadcast on the 10th February titled ‘Greening our Electricity’ the renowned Irish journalist Duncan Stuart ...
By NTi Audio AG
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Ecotech engineer takes out Australian scientific research award
Don Zhao, engineer at Ecotech won the Metrology Society of Australia (MSA) Award on Thursday 20 October at the ninth biennial MSA conference dinner at Werribee Zoo in Victoria. The MSA biennial Award recognises achievement and excellence in Australian metrology and the contribution metrologists make to the community. Metrology is the science of measurement and membership includes scientists, ...
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The OceanAlpha USV workshop certified 8 trainees from 6 companies
The 6th OceanAlpha USV workshop was successfully held in Zhuhai, China from October 29th to 31st. Guests from 6 companies join the 3-day event to learn and share the latest technology of USV and its widening application in the inland hydrographic survey, oceanographic survey, water quality monitoring, wind farm construction and oil&gas exploitation. On the first morning, the guests were ...
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RainWise HM-1 utilized at NASA rocket launches
RainWise, Inc., one of the leading manufacturers of quality weather stations in the U.S. and abroad, has recently supplied Northrup Grumman Corporation, principal engineering contractor for NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), with three of their HM-1 Hazmat Weather Systems for use during rocket and satellite launches. The HM-1 weather station has the most advanced wind speed ...
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Labor safety threatened by crane collapses
A tower crane collapsed the morning of January 23, 2019, when it was working at a worksite in Hunan Province, China. Two people died on the spot while two others died soon after they arrived at the hospital. The falling crane also struck several other construction workers. On May 19, another accident happened in Israel. In one construction site, drivers were lifting some heavy stuff. However, ...
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Webinar - Sustainable ports
Ecomesure has been selected to present its environmental monitoring solutions during the webinar "Innovative solutions for sustainable ports" on Thursday, December 3. This 100% digital event is organized by the PEXE, the French cleantech network and the French Agency for ecological transition ADEME, in partnership with the Union of French ports, the International Association of port cities, the ...
By Ecomesure
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PME Provides Lake Monitoring Instrumentation to Israel
Precision Measurement Engineering, Inc. (PME), an internationally known freshwater instrument design corporation recently provided Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) Institution with instrumentation that will constantly monitor water temperature and dissolved oxygen. Data will be available real-time and telemetered via GSM cell phone to a shore computer. PME provided IOLR ...
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The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research orders MERLIN™ Avian Radar System
Panama City, Florida, USA – November 2, 2007: The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) has ordered a MERLIN XS2530e Avian Radar System to conduct a multi-year study of a proposed wind farm project in Norway. NINA, based in Trondheim, is Norway’s leading institution for applied ecological research. NINA worked with the SINTEF Group, the largest independent research organization in ...
By DeTect, Inc.
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