The National Agency for Aeronautics and Space USA has opened online access to satellite images compiled from detailed maps of Antarctica, which, according to the scientists will revolutionize the study continent.
Map Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA), established with the assistance of NASA satellite, Landsat 7, contains nearly unclouded continent with the type of resolution is 10 times greater than previously available on any maps. By providing an unprecedented opportunity to examine the details of the size of half basketball court, the card contains a geographically the most accurate high-resolution color images of Antarctica. It was attended by USGS, the National Science Foundation and the British Institute for Polar.
"This will open up new opportunities for scientific research and allow the public a closer look at the Antarctica and so, as scientists use satellite images in their research" the statement says Representative Space Flight Center to them. Robert Bindshadlera NASA Goddard. He said researchers can use the map, in particular the planning for scientific expeditions and exploring mountain formations. It is more than a thousand images, made over three years observing the continent's landscape. To download available eight different versions of the resulting "mosaic".
Bindschadler, who initiated the project in NASA, began collecting his collection of images of Antarctica, in 1999. He and his colleagues chose the images for the card and have developed new methods of data interpretation. Collage "contains almost no white spots", with the exception of round-field pole in the southern hemisphere. "Map serves as an important result of the cooperation of American and British scientists says in the statement of the representative of the British Polar Institute in Cambridge Andrew Fleming. "I have no doubt that researchers will find this mosaic, one of the first results of a joint initiative for the invaluable scientific planning campaigns."
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