Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Forecasting Tsunami with GPS Technology

NASA scientists knew February 2010 wave would be too small to cause destruction in Hawaii

Scientists used GPS sensors placed close to the epicenter of February's destructive Chilean earthquake and experimental computer modeling to predict the size of February's tsunami. Listen to this interesting Hawaii Public Radio report.
http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hpr/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=42&Itemid=166

What are other real world uses for GPS you can think of?

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