How to Use imager in a Sentence

imager

noun
  • The imager was designed to detect faint features in the solar wind that streams out from the sun.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The two zoomable cameras that make up the rover’s Mastcam-Z imager survey the terrain.
    Merrill Sherman, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • The drone, equipped with a thermal imager, can fly about six miles when loaded with explosives.
    Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Unlike a regular imager, this chip doesn't capture frame after frame with each tick of the clock.
    IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Now that the fine phasing stage is complete, the Near-Infrared Camera, which serves as the telescope's primary imager, is aligned to the mirror.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Mar. 2022
  • One of the probes will carry a narrow-field imager to study the corona itself, the sun’s blistering outer layer.
    Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
  • The blankets do still betray a somewhat blotchy contour on thermal imagers.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Rimfax, the radar imager for the Martian subsurface, was designed in Norway.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Hope is a boxy satellite the size of a small car that will use three main instruments—an imager and two gas spectrometers—to study the Martian atmosphere.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 6 July 2020
  • The L'Ralph instrument—yes, that's its name—is comprised of an infrared spectrometer and a color imager.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The imager is located on the Landsat 9 satellite, and it was designed to capture high-resolution photos of our planet.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 May 2022
  • These see the least area but take the crispest pictures, so satellites in LEO are often imagers either doing science, such as monitoring weather, or spying.
    Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Multiple imagers and sensors will capture and send back data across different wavelengths of light.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Perhaps the most important capability the Bradley has, at least to Ukrainian forces, is the thermal imager sight built into each vehicle.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The team has also now fully aligned Webb's primary imager, the Near-Infrared Camera, to the observatory’s mirrors.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The JunoCam visible-light imager used its green filter to capture almost an entire side of the icy moon; red and blue filters will be used by imaging experts to present a color portrait later.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 June 2021
  • The turret also includes a 360 degree thermal imager for remote viewing.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2020
  • Time-lapse sequences taken with the imager have allowed researchers to better study dynamic activity on the planet.
    Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2018
  • The JunoCam imager also continues to serve an important, dual purpose in this mission.
    Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2018
  • As with the other self-diagnosis tools, home use of Ozcan’s cell phone blood imager is a ways off, but it is already being looked at for pilot programs in remote locations where doctors and lab equipment are in short supply.
    David H Freedman, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2012
  • Positive pressure blowers, a set of Hurst e-tools including a spreader and cutter, thermal imager, gas detectors, and rope rescue equipment are also carried on the truck.
    baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Rescuers used heavy digging equipment and cameras that could snake down into the debris, along with thermal imagers and equipment to detect vital signs, Chang Zhigang, the head of the rescue operation, told reporters Thursday.
    Ng Han Guan, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The data from the imager will be useful in weather prediction, said Carlo Simoncelli, a program manager at Leonardo.
    Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • Now, an astrophysicist and exoplanet imager at Northwestern University has used 17 years of footage to create a time-lapse video of this almost complete orbit of the giant planet around its star.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Their flying robot was equipped with several sensors, including a special kind of camera called a hyperspectral imager.
    Dallas News, 6 July 2022
  • If that object radiates heat, a thermal imager will show an image of it, with different colors representing relative levels of heat.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2021
  • Nevertheless, Claire’s imager has been losing pixels more quickly than expected.
    Jason McKeever, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Virgin Galactic’s crew took along an imager for plants, and Blue Origin’s crew ran an experiment studying liquid and vapor interfaces in microgravity.
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The craft will also feature a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer to identify the types of materials in Psyche; a magnetometer to measure the asteroid’s magnetic field; and a multi-spectral imager to capture high-resolution snaps of it.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2023
  • An imager will study its mineral composition and topography, and the spacecraft’s telecommunication system will use radio waves to learn about Psyche’s rotation, mass and gravitational field.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023

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