X-Nico

unusual facts about calibration



1000 Hurts

Also, the speech at the start of the record is a variation on the announcements one would hear on Magnetic Reference Laboratory's calibration tapes for analogue tape recorders.

Airports Authority of India

In addition to in-house flight calibration of its navigational aids, AAI undertakes flight calibration of navigational aids for the Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard and other private airfields in the country.

ALV X-1

The SOAREX-VI package also included an atmospheric density calibration probe built by NASA Ames in cooperation with the University of Idaho, and an AIS probe built by the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).

Beagle 2

The mission's call-sign was composed by the band Blur, and the 'test card' (Calibration Target Plate) intended for calibrating Beagle 2s cameras and spectrometers after landing was painted by Damien Hirst.

Bowen's Kale

Produced by Humphry Bowen, the reference material called Bowen's Kale was used for the calibration of early scientific instruments intended to measure trace elements in the 1960s.

Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz

On the mountain Schauinsland the BfS operates an international measurement station for gamma dose rate probe calibration and long term tests.

Camera calibration

Color mapping, which is a method for photometric camera calibration

Camera resectioning, which is called also geometric camera calibration

COSYSMO

Initially developed in 2002, the model now contains a calibration data set of more than 50 projects provided by major aerospace and defense companies such as Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, General Dynamics, and BAE Systems.

Escadron de transport, d'entraînement et de calibrage

The Escadron de transport, d'entraînement et de calibration 00.065 (ETEC 65, "Transportation, training and calibration squadron") is a unit of the French Air Force, under direct command of the Minister of Defence, in charge of the transportation of the President, the Prime Minister and other French government officials.

FEL lamp

The calibration lamps are generally modified to use a larger bi-post base that fits into special kinematic mount sockets for precise optical alignment.

Flow tracer

When 28,000 Friendly Floatees plastic ducks and other toys were washed overboard from a container ship in the Pacific Ocean in 1992, oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer used them for the calibration and verification of ocean current models.

Gorham's Cave

AMS dating gives dates for this level of between 33 and 23 kyr BP — the researchers felt that the uncertainties at this time depth made calibration impractical.

HEG

Hydro-erosive grinding, a process of calibration of machines that works with fluids

Hipparcos

Groups from the Institut d'Astrophysique in Liege and the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale in Marseille contributed optical performance, calibration and alignment test procedures; Captec in Dublin and Logica in London contributed to the on-board software and calibration.

HMMER

Further gains in performance are due to a log-likelihood model that requires no calibration for estimating E-values, and allows the more accurate forward scores to be used for computing the significance of a homologous sequence.

International Ultraviolet Explorer

The first spectrum, of the star Eta Ursae Majoris, was taken for calibration purposes three days after launch.

Leeb rebound hardness test

PrEN ISO 16859-3 "Metallic materials - Leeb hardness test - Part 3: Calibration of reference test blocks"

PrEN ISO 16859-2 "Metallic materials - Leeb hardness test - Part 2: Verification and calibration of the testing devices"

Magnetic Reference Laboratory

In 1972 John G. McKnight was laid off from Ampex, as was Tony Bardakos, who was making the calibration tapes for Ampex at the time.

No. 116 Squadron RAF

The Squadron reformed at Hatfield on 17 February 1941 from No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Calibration Flight with Westland Lysanders.

Optimized Power Control

Optimized Power Control, also known as Optimum Power Calibration, abbreviated OPC, is a function of a CD or DVD writer.

Particle counter

Particle counters used for this purpose typically use ISO Standard 4406:1999 as their reporting standard, and ISO 11171 as the calibration standard.

Robotic Lunar Observatory

Its purpose was to enable the Moon to be used as a radiance calibration source for Earth-orbiting remote-sensing spacecraft.

Sphygmomanometer

Aneroid sphygmomanometers (mechanical types with a dial) are in common use; they require calibration checks, unlike mercury manometers.

Write strategy

The drive stores data from previous burns in its EEPROM, allowing it to adapt the default write strategies to account for individual drive variations, such as calibration, which may be affected by environment and age.


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