Nigeria and the People’s Republic of China are planning to collaborate in an effort to develop the first of its kind baseline interferometer.
The projected baseline interferometry will be used to track volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in Sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria, the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) said in news flash on Friday, however specifics are still vague.
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Nigeria and China to build first of its kind baseline Interferometry to monitor earthquake and volcanic eruption in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. pic.twitter.com/E3FEyBdQj0
— NTA News (@NTANewsNow) July 7, 2023
Chinese representatives and Nigeria are meeting in the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja is now the site of a conference between Nigerian and
Baseline interferometry is a word used to describe an astronomical interferometry technique in radio astronomy.
Multiple radio telescopes on Earth or in space gather a signal from an astronomical radio source, such as a quasar.
The time difference between the radio signal arrivals at various radio telescopes is then used to measure the distance between the radio telescopes.
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