New technology emits itself through innovation and sometimes invention based upon the several factors in environments and its effect on the ecosystem and the health of humans and species. What drives the technology the most is the impact that it has left which pushes the drive to change. Scientists are developing new technology every day that can better give us ways to understand our culture, and safeguard us against natural changes in our life.
Some of the new technologies that have been introduced that is discussed will be the ability to predict red tides, and the effects it has on fisheries and humans, and the ability to better understand the shape of our earth, and can forecast models to predict weather forecasts, and early warning systems that protect society with the ongoing severity of weather. Red tides are inspiring tides that put off a blueish glow that brings people to view them because of its natural beauty in oceans, and beaches. This blueish glow is caused by algae that is attached to fish that contains the pigment chlorophyll.
Once the fish swim near the beaches and the surf carry them towards the beaches it lets off a blueish glow that looks like the beach is glowing. As beautiful as these tides look, it can be very harmful to society. Near coasts, one of the most thriving businesses are the fisheries. Society eats fish, crab, lobster and local coastal delicacies that they all love. Eating these types of food, that carry this type of algae can cause respiratory problems, birth complications, and can lead to death in some cases.
The thought of red tides used to be that they were merely random and the phenomenon was purely coincidental. Scientists understood what caused them but never understood why they occurred in different areas. Now the ability has been found that predictions can be made on where the red tides occur and what causes them to occur in specific areas. Scientists looked at models where they thought that the ecosystem was non-changing, and that’s why they were never led to believe that red tides could be something other than coincidental and random.
Once scientists placed data into an EDM model (empirical dynamic model) which is based upon time, they could see that red tides were not coincidental and could predict where the strange phenomenon would occur based upon past events. By having the ability to predict these events, scientists were able to develop an early warning system on when these events were going to occur to avoid the operational problems that occur in desalinization plants, military installations, and installations that provide power to outlying areas. Some of the earth’s measurements can’t be measured while on earth.
Atmospheric measurements, interferences, and many weather conditions are observed above the earth. This method of observation is beneficial in numerous ways. On earth, there is a lot of things that interfere with the outlook of earth that are transparent to society and scientists. Stepping outside the box as the saying goes. It what’s needed to see what isn’t seen as easily. This is where the technology of CubeSat’s comes in. These tiny satellites, approximately the size of a shoebox can measure thousands of different types of data depending on what NASA wants to collect.
CubeSat’s (RRT) radiometer radio frequency interference technology is a technology that can identify the gaps in radio frequency interference channels that are being swamped with hundreds of different types of radio frequency that is used for different types of communications, data transmission, and devices. The data spectrum is used mostly be telecommunications, which needs to be mitigated due to safety and security organizations using the spectrum for emergency situations and communication.
It will also help stop the interference of microwave radiometers that measure the earths atmospheric water vapor, and or soil moisture. Compact infrared radiometer’s in space with multiple satellites in formation could be used in conjunction with the CubeSat that would be able to measure land and water resources to better plan management of facilities. CubeSat infrared atmospheric sounder technology could be used to match the temperature and water vapor profile measurements of the lower troposphere.
By being able to match the temperature in this area, later technologies could map that data to existing models to forecast severe weather and climate changes, and weather forecasts. Precipitation profiling radar (Raincube) is a technology that would be able to use data that it collects to improve weather forecast models. By doing this it will use an antenna that is deployable from the satellite, and interpreting technology to interpret weather observations. CubeSat’s can be used for many other uses than just measurements of the earth.
Think of telecommunications and how data is transferred from one medium to another. Interconnectivity between satellites in succession can transfer data extremely fast, and there is not a limit on the type of data that is transferred. There are already satellites that are in orbit that can connect back to the internet and transfer data between the satellite and an end device. Multiple satellites would be able to transfer data between an end device and multiple satellites at once to increase the speed of data transmission.
Earthquakes are a force of nature that devastates the earth and communities once one of a magnitude of approximately 7 or higher occurs. Scientists have tried to come up with a system that can implement an early warning system that can predict when a major earthquake is about to occur. Twinsats is one of the answers to this problem. When an earthquake is about to occur, electromagnetic signals emit from the fault-line that can be measured by satellites in our earth’s orbit. Once the pressure is built up, radon gas is emitted from the fault line that is radioactive and can be measured from space.
Satellites can overlook a vast majority of earth, but it doesn’t have to overlook all of the areas of earth, only in areas where earthquakes are most prominent. Once the satellites are in orbit, the satellites work in continuum, and once one satellite reports signal activity, the other can triangulate the signal emission and can help predict where the position of the fault will occur. Even with this advanced warning, earthquakes have always been an event that is random, and when it happened, society picked up the pieces afterward, and prayed that it didn’t happen in the future.
In areas where earthquakes have occurred, society lives in fear of the one event that can leave devastation. The newest and state of the art telescope to come to our doorstep is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It has also been called the Next Generation Space Telescope. It is currently under construction and it is hoped to be launched in October 2018. One of the biggest goals of this new technology will be to have it help us understand more distant events and objects in the universe. This could even help us understand how the first galaxies of the universe were formed.
Not only would we aim to understand the formation of galaxies but we would get a better grasp in the formation of stars and planets as well. This telescope has a 21-foot mirror; this is significantly larger than the Hubble telescope which only has an eight-foot mirror. There are also numerous innovative technologies in agriculture. These include air and topsoil sensors, equipment telematics, livestock biometrics, and crop sensors. Air and soil sensors are automations to contribute real time interpretation of in progress farm conditions and body of water circumstances.
Equipment telematics include technology on equipment that may give a heads up to farmers of a potential failure that could come about soon, for case in point malfunction of a tractor. Livestock biometrics would sanction farm and plantation workers to be able to check in on their livestock in real time to make sure things are as they should be while they are not in the proximity. This technology should be viable by year 2020. Crop sensors will be available mainstream by 2018. This will enable proper fertilization of soils by detecting how much is needed. This would be implemented by the use of optical sensors and/or drones.
It is important to see what innovations can be made based upon natural disasters and the importance of human life, and trying to know what we don’t know. By becoming more innovative we can build upon our knowledge to make things easier and more economically friendly. We need to realize that our actions in today’s world can have positive and negative effects on tomorrows world. The new technologies that have been introduced have shown that most of them are based upon improving the quality and safety of life in society, and trying to understand natural events as they occur.
