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160 relations: Aircraft, Amiodarone, Analog signal, Antenna (radio), Antiarrhythmic agent, Argos (satellite system), Atmospheric temperature, Automatic meter reading, Bait car, Barcode, Barcode reader, Biotelemetry, Bird of prey, Cardigan Bay, Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Centrifugal governor, Chemical plant, Cold War, Commonwealth Edison, Communications satellite, Commutation (telemetry), Computer network, Concentrator, Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, Coronary care unit, Data collection, Data communication, Digital data, Doctor Yellow, Doppler effect, Drilling, ECHELON, Electrical resistance and conductance, Electroencephalography, Electronic tagging, Energy supply, European Space Agency, Evapotranspiration, Falconry, Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, Flight test instrumentation, Fodder, Formation evaluation, Formula One, Frame (networking), G-force, General Packet Radio Service, Geosteering, Global Positioning System, ... Expand index (110 more) »
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Aircraft
An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
Amiodarone
Amiodarone is an antiarrhythmic medication used to treat and prevent a number of types of cardiac dysrhythmias.
Analog signal
An analog signal is any continuous-time signal representing some other quantity, i.e., analogous to another quantity.
See Telemetry and Analog signal
Antenna (radio)
In radio engineering, an antenna (American English) or aerial (British English) is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver.
See Telemetry and Antenna (radio)
Antiarrhythmic agent
Antiarrhythmic agents, also known as cardiac dysrhythmia medications, are a class of drugs that are used to suppress abnormally fast rhythms (tachycardias), such as atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia.
See Telemetry and Antiarrhythmic agent
Argos (satellite system)
Argos is a global satellite-based system that collects, processes, and disseminates (spreads, distributes) environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms around the world.
See Telemetry and Argos (satellite system)
Atmospheric temperature
Atmospheric temperature is a measure of temperature at different levels of the Earth's atmosphere.
See Telemetry and Atmospheric temperature
Automatic meter reading
Automatic meter reading (AMR) is the technology of automatically collecting consumption, diagnostic, and status data from water meter or energy metering devices (gas, electric) and transferring that data to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and analyzing.
See Telemetry and Automatic meter reading
Bait car
A bait car, also called a decoy car, hot car, or trap car, is a vehicle used by law enforcement agencies to capture car thieves or thieves who steal items from cars.
Barcode
A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form.
Barcode reader
A barcode reader or barcode scanner is an optical scanner that can read printed barcodes and send the data they contain to computer.
See Telemetry and Barcode reader
Biotelemetry
Biotelemetry (or medical telemetry) involves the application of telemetry in biology, medicine, and other health care to remotely monitor various vital signs of ambulatory patients.
See Telemetry and Biotelemetry
Bird of prey
Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds).
See Telemetry and Bird of prey
Cardigan Bay
Cardigan Bay (Bae Ceredigion) is a large inlet of the Irish Sea, indenting the west coast of Wales between Bardsey Island, Gwynedd in the north, and Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire at its southern end.
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Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures
The diagnostic tests in cardiology are methods of identifying heart conditions associated with healthy vs.
See Telemetry and Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures
Carl Wilhelm Siemens
Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman.
See Telemetry and Carl Wilhelm Siemens
Centrifugal governor
A centrifugal governor is a specific type of governor with a feedback system that controls the speed of an engine by regulating the flow of fuel or working fluid, so as to maintain a near-constant speed.
See Telemetry and Centrifugal governor
Chemical plant
A chemical plant is an industrial process plant that manufactures (or otherwise processes) chemicals, usually on a large scale.
See Telemetry and Chemical plant
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Commonwealth Edison
Commonwealth Edison, commonly known by syllabic abbreviation as ComEd, is the largest electric utility in Illinois, and the primary electric provider in Chicago and much of Northern Illinois.
See Telemetry and Commonwealth Edison
Communications satellite
A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth.
See Telemetry and Communications satellite
Commutation (telemetry)
In telemetry, commutation is a process whereby multiple data streams ("measurands"), possibly with differing data rates, are combined into a single frame-based stream for transmission, before being separated again (decommutated) upon reception; it is a form of time-division multiplexing.
See Telemetry and Commutation (telemetry)
Computer network
A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes.
See Telemetry and Computer network
Concentrator
In telecommunication, the term concentrator has the following meanings.
See Telemetry and Concentrator
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) was founded in 1982 for governmental and quasi-governmental space agencies to discuss and develop standards for space data and information systems.
See Telemetry and Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
Coronary care unit
A coronary care unit (CCU) or cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) is a hospital ward specialized in the care of patients with heart attacks, unstable angina, cardiac dysrhythmia and (in practice) various other cardiac conditions that require continuous monitoring and treatment.
See Telemetry and Coronary care unit
Data collection
Data collection or data gathering is the process of gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in an established system, which then enables one to answer relevant questions and evaluate outcomes.
See Telemetry and Data collection
Data communication
Data communication, including data transmission and data reception, is the transfer of data, transmitted and received over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Telemetry and data communication are telecommunications.
See Telemetry and Data communication
Digital data
Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits.
See Telemetry and Digital data
Doctor Yellow
is the nickname for the high-speed test trains that are used on the Tokaido Shinkansen and San'yō Shinkansen.
See Telemetry and Doctor Yellow
Doppler effect
The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the wave.
See Telemetry and Doppler effect
Drilling
Drilling is a cutting process where a drill bit is spun to cut a hole of circular cross-section in solid materials.
ECHELON
ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program (signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement:Given the 5 dialects that use the terms, UKUSA can be pronounced from "You-Q-SA" to "Oo-Coo-SA", AUSCANNZUKUS can be pronounced from "Oz-Can-Zuke-Us" to "Orse-Can-Zoo-Cuss".
Electrical resistance and conductance
The electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the flow of electric current.
See Telemetry and Electrical resistance and conductance
Electroencephalography
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain.
See Telemetry and Electroencephalography
Electronic tagging
Electronic tagging is a form of surveillance that uses an electronic device affixed to a person.
See Telemetry and Electronic tagging
Energy supply
Energy supply is the delivery of fuels or transformed fuels to point of consumption.
See Telemetry and Energy supply
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.
See Telemetry and European Space Agency
Evapotranspiration
Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the combined processes which move water from the Earth's surface (open water and ice surfaces, bare soil and vegetation) into the atmosphere.
See Telemetry and Evapotranspiration
Falconry
Falconry is the hunting of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey.
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; International Automobile Federation) is an association established on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users.
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Flight test instrumentation
Flight test instrumentation (FTI) is monitoring and recording equipment fitted to aircraft for specific flight tests.
See Telemetry and Flight test instrumentation
Fodder
Fodder, also called provender, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.
Formation evaluation
In petroleum exploration and development, formation evaluation is used to determine the ability of a borehole to produce petroleum.
See Telemetry and Formation evaluation
Formula One
Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).
Frame (networking)
A frame is a digital data transmission unit in computer networking and telecommunication.
See Telemetry and Frame (networking)
G-force
The g-force or gravitational force equivalent is mass-specific force (force per unit mass), expressed in units of standard gravity (symbol g or g0, not to be confused with "g", the symbol for grams).
General Packet Radio Service
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), also called 2.5G, is a mobile data standard on the 2G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM).
See Telemetry and General Packet Radio Service
Geosteering
Geosteering is the optimal placement of a wellbore based on the results of realtime downhole geological and geophysical logging measurements rather than three-dimensional targets in space.
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.
See Telemetry and Global Positioning System
Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption.
Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
GSM
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets.
Heart
The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals.
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space.
See Telemetry and Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Humidity
Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.
Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp.
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Hydrostatics
Fluid statics or hydrostatics is the branch of fluid mechanics that studies fluids at hydrostatic equilibrium and "the pressure in a fluid or exerted by a fluid on an immersed body".
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In situ
In situ (often not italicized in English) is a Latin phrase that translates literally to "on site" or "in position." It can mean "locally", "on site", "on the premises", or "in place" to describe where an event takes place and is used in many different contexts.
Institution of Civil Engineers
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom.
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Instrumentation
Instrumentation is a collective term for measuring instruments, used for indicating, measuring, and recording physical quantities.
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Inter-Range Instrumentation Group
The Inter-Range Instrumentation Group (IRIG) is the standards body of the Range Commanders Council (RCC).
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International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)French: Union Internationale des Télécommunications is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies.
See Telemetry and International Telecommunication Union
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
ISRO
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is India's national '''space agency'''.
James Watt
James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
Las Vegas Valley
The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States.
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Leaf wetness
Leaf wetness is a meteorological parameter that describes the amount of dew and precipitation left on surfaces.
See Telemetry and Leaf wetness
Logging while drilling
Logging while drilling (LWD) is a technique of conveying well logging tools into the well borehole downhole as part of the bottom hole assembly (BHA).
See Telemetry and Logging while drilling
Long-term video-EEG monitoring
Long-term or "continuous" video-electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring is a diagnostic technique commonly used in patients with epilepsy.
See Telemetry and Long-term video-EEG monitoring
Lord Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast.
Machine to machine
Machine to machine (M2M) is direct communication between devices using any communications channel, including wired and wireless.
See Telemetry and Machine to machine
Measurement while drilling
A drilling rig is used to create a borehole or well (also called a wellbore) in the earth's sub-surface, for example in order to extract natural resources such as gas or oil.
See Telemetry and Measurement while drilling
Medical-surgical nursing
Medical-surgical nursing is a nursing specialty area concerned with the care of adult patients in a broad range of settings.
See Telemetry and Medical-surgical nursing
Mercury pressure gauge
A mercury pressure gauge is a type of manometer using mercury as the working fluid.
See Telemetry and Mercury pressure gauge
Meteorology
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences (which include atmospheric chemistry and physics) with a major focus on weather forecasting.
Missile
A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor.
Monitoring (medicine)
In medicine, monitoring is the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time.
See Telemetry and Monitoring (medicine)
Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc (BrE:; AmE:; Mont Blanc; Monte Bianco, both meaning "white mountain") is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, and the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus mountains, rising above sea level, located on the Franco-Italian border.
Morse code
Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.
MQTT
MQTT (originally an initialism of MQ Telemetry Transport) is a lightweight, publish-subscribe, machine to machine network protocol for message queue/message queuing service.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
Naval Postgraduate School
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is a public graduate school operated by the United States Navy and located in Monterey, California.
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Network Rail
Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain.
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Neurophysiology
Neurophysiology is a branch of physiology and neuroscience that studies nervous system function rather than nervous system architecture.
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New Measurement Train
The New Measurement Train (NMT), affectionately nicknamed the Flying Banana, is a specialised train which operates in the United Kingdom to assess the condition of track so that engineers can determine where to work.
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Nursing
Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence".
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA), superseded by is a New Zealand Crown entity tasked with promoting safe and functional transport by land, including the responsibility for driver and vehicle licensing, and administering the New Zealand state highway network.
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Oil platform
An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.
See Telemetry and Oil platform
Optical character recognition
Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example: from a television broadcast).
See Telemetry and Optical character recognition
Optical reader
An optical reader is a device that observes visual information and translates it into digital information, as found within most image and barcode and matrix-code scanners.
See Telemetry and Optical reader
Overhead line
An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams.
See Telemetry and Overhead line
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Parole
Parole (also known as provisional release or supervised release) is a form of early release of a prison inmate where the prisoner agrees to abide by behavioral conditions, including checking-in with their designated parole officers, or else they may be rearrested and returned to prison.
Pavel Molchanov
Pavel Alexandrovich Molchanov (Павел Александрович Молчанов) (– October 1941) was a Soviet Russian meteorologist and the inventor of the first Russian radiosonde in 1930, while the French Pierre Idrac (1885-1935) and Robert Bureau (1892-1965) were the first to develop the radiosonde in 1929.
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Physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
Pneumatics
Pneumatics (from Greek πνεῦμα 'wind, breath') is a branch of engineering that makes use of gas or pressurized air.
Point of sale
The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place at which a retail transaction is completed.
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Portable telemetry
The portable system for telemetry applications is a solution that gathers in a portable computer full functionalities and performances.
See Telemetry and Portable telemetry
Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
See Telemetry and Precipitation
Predictive maintenance
Predictive maintenance techniques are designed to help determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed.
See Telemetry and Predictive maintenance
Privacy
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively.
Profiling (information science)
In information science, profiling refers to the process of construction and application of user profiles generated by computerized data analysis.
See Telemetry and Profiling (information science)
Pulse-code modulation
Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a method used to digitally represent analog signals.
See Telemetry and Pulse-code modulation
Pulse-position modulation
Pulse-position modulation (PPM) is a form of signal modulation in which M message bits are encoded by transmitting a single pulse in one of 2^M possible required time shifts.
See Telemetry and Pulse-position modulation
Pulse-width modulation
Pulse-width modulation (PWM), also known as pulse-duration modulation (PDM) or pulse-length modulation (PLM), is any method of representing a signal as a rectangular wave with a varying duty cycle (and for some methods also a varying period).
See Telemetry and Pulse-width modulation
Radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.
Radio
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Telemetry and radio are telecommunications.
Radio-controlled car
Radio-controlled cars, or RC cars for short, are miniature model cars, vans, buses, trucks or buggies that can be controlled from a distance using a specialized transmitter or remote.
See Telemetry and Radio-controlled car
Radio-frequency identification
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects.
See Telemetry and Radio-frequency identification
Radiosonde
A radiosonde is a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to a ground receiver.
Railway track
A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway" in Australia), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
See Telemetry and Railway track
Rangefinder
A rangefinder (also rangefinding telemeter, depending on the context) is a device used to measure distances to remote objects.
Reconnaissance satellite
A reconnaissance satellite or intelligence satellite (commonly, although unofficially, referred to as a spy satellite) is an Earth observation satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications.
See Telemetry and Reconnaissance satellite
Relay
A relay Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off A relay is an electrically operated switch.
Remote monitoring and control
Remote monitoring and control (M&C) systems are designed to control large or complex facilities such as factories, power plants, network operations centers, airports, and spacecraft, with some degree of automation.
See Telemetry and Remote monitoring and control
Remote sensing
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation.
See Telemetry and Remote sensing
Remote terminal unit
A remote terminal unit (RTU) is a microprocessor-controlled electronic device that interfaces objects in the physical world to a distributed control system or SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system by transmitting telemetry data to a master system, and by using messages from the master supervisory system to control connected objects.
See Telemetry and Remote terminal unit
Resistance thermometer
Resistance thermometers, also called resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), are sensors used to measure temperature.
See Telemetry and Resistance thermometer
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Samuel Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code in 1837 and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
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Satellite
A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body.
SBMV Protocol
SBMV Protocol is an advanced encrypted telemetry that uses short-burst, multi-version technology.
See Telemetry and SBMV Protocol
SCADA
SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a control system architecture comprising computers, networked data communications and graphical user interfaces for high-level supervision of machines and processes.
Sensor
A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of detecting a physical phenomenon.
SMS
Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.
Spaceflight
Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board.
Spaceport
A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching or receiving spacecraft, by analogy to a seaport for ships or an airport for aircraft.
Sperry Rail Service
Sperry Rail Service is a rail inspection company founded in 1928 by Elmer Ambrose Sperry.
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Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
Improvements to the steam engine were some of the most important technologies of the Industrial Revolution, although steam did not replace water power in importance in Britain until after the Industrial Revolution.
See Telemetry and Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
Strain gauge
A strain gauge (also spelled strain gage) is a device used to measure strain on an object.
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Stream gauge
A stream gauge, streamgage or stream gauging station is a location used by hydrologists or environmental scientists to monitor and test terrestrial bodies of water.
See Telemetry and Stream gauge
Synchro
A synchro (also known as selsyn and by other brand names) is, in effect, a transformer whose primary-to-secondary coupling may be varied by physically changing the relative orientation of the two windings.
Tacheometry
Tacheometry (from Greek for "quick measure") is a system of rapid surveying, by which the horizontal and vertical positions of points on the Earth's surface relative to one another are determined using a tacheometer (a form of theodolite).
Telecommand
A telecommand or telecontrol is a command sent to control a remote system or systems not directly connected (e.g. via wires) to the place from which the telecommand is sent.
Telecommunications
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.
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Telegraph sounder
A telegraph sounder is an antique electromechanical device used as a receiver on electrical telegraph lines during the 19th century.
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Telematics
Telematics is an interdisciplinary field encompassing telecommunications, vehicular technologies (road transport, road safety, etc.), electrical engineering (sensors, instrumentation, wireless communications, etc.), and computer science (multimedia, Internet, etc.). Telematics can involve any of the following. Telemetry and Telematics are telecommunications.
Thermocouple
A thermocouple, also known as a "thermoelectrical thermometer", is an electrical device consisting of two dissimilar electrical conductors forming an electrical junction.
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Thomas Johann Seebeck
Thomas Johann Seebeck (9 April 1770 – 10 December 1831) was a German physicist, who, in 1822, observed a relationship between heat and magnetism.
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Time of flight
Time of flight (ToF) is the measurement of the time taken by an object, particle or wave (be it acoustic, electromagnetic, etc.) to travel a distance through a medium.
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Track gauge
In rail transport, track gauge is the distance between the two rails of a railway track.
Tsardom of Russia
The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Muscovy, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of per year. The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire.
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Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz.
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona.
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University of the West of England
The University of the West of England (also known as UWE Bristol) is a public research university, located in and around Bristol, England, UK.
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V-2 rocket
The V2 (lit), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.
Vending machine
A vending machine is an automated machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or otherwise made.
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Water quality
Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water based on the standards of its usage.
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Water resources
Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water.
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Wernher von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March 191216 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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Winter Palace
The Winter Palace is a palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of the House of Romanov, previous emperors, from 1732 to 1917.
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Wireless
Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information (telecommunication) between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer.
Wireless sensor network
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location.
See Telemetry and Wireless sensor network
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See Telemetry and World War II
See also
Spaceflight technology
- 3D-printed spacecraft
- Ariane Next
- Autonomous Landing Hazard Avoidance Technology
- Ballute
- CALLISTO
- Delta-DOR
- EELV Secondary Payload Adapter
- Extravehicular activity
- Floating launch vehicle operations platform
- Fractionated spacecraft
- Fugro SpAARC
- G-jitter
- Ground segment
- Hand-held maneuvering unit
- Human analog missions
- Hypercone (spacecraft)
- ICER (file format)
- Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator
- Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator
- Marman clamp
- Mass catcher
- Mission control center
- NanoSat MO Framework
- Non-rocket spacelaunch
- Orbit determination
- Orbital ring
- PEGASUS
- Prometheus (rocket engine)
- Rebreather
- Sharp Edge Flight Experiment
- Silicone impregnated refractory ceramic ablator
- Space elevator
- Space fountain
- Space gun
- Space guns
- Space vehicle
- Spacecraft communication
- Spacecraft propulsion
- Spacesuits
- Spin stabilization
- Telemetry
- Themis programme
- Transpiration cooling
- Vacuum cementing
References
Also known as Data telemetry, History of telemetry, Radio telemetry, Telemeter, Telemetering, Telemetering system, Telemetric, Telemetry device.