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Mapping the Amazon: Mosaic tiles animation
A satellite can cover the Amazon in just two months.

The mapping team chose a Japanese satellite outfitted with synthetic aperture radar, or SAR for short. SAR is a natural fit for the Amazon. It can penetrate

the clouds that pour rain for half of the year and the smoke from trees burned by farmers to clear land. SAR even works at night. As you might imagine, the

satellite collects a pile of data. In raw form, these observations are gibberish. Focusing them requires a supercomputer to crunch fifteen hundred trillion calculations. The output is rich images of the Amazon. Scientists listed worked as a team on Mosaicking Software and Mosaic Production.


1,500 scenes combine into Amazon rainforest mosaic    1,500 scenes combine into Amazon rainforest mosaic
Duration: 52.0 seconds
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1,500 scenes combine into Amazon rainforest mosaic    1,500 scenes combine into Amazon rainforest mosaic

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1,500 scenes combine into Amazon rainforest mosaic    1,500 scenes combine into Amazon rainforest mosaic

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Animation Number:2405
Animators:Stuart A. Snodgrass (Lead)
 Tom Bridgman
 Randall Jones
Studio:SVS
Completed:2000-12-19
Scientists:Bruce Chapman (NASA/JPL CalTech)
 David Curkendall (NASA/JPL CalTech)
 Tony Freeman (NASA/JPL CalTech)
 Craig Miller (NASA/JPL CalTech)
 Herb Siegel (NASA/JPL CalTech)
 Paul Siqueira (NASA/JPL CalTech)
 Kathya Zamora (NASA/JPL CalTech)
Instrument:JERS-1
Data Collected:1995, 1996
Series:Journeys through Earth and Space
Video:SVS2000-0026 *
Keywords:
DLESE >> Agricultural science
SVS >> Amazon
DLESE >> Environmental science
DLESE >> Forestry
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> Mosaic
 
 
Please give credit for this visualization to
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio. Data Processing was done by Alaska SAR Facility, Advanced Computing Technology Applications for SAR Interferometry and Imaging Science http://pat.jpl.nasa.gov/public/SAR/, Global Rainforest Mapping Project CD-ROM Requests http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/Sciences/Forest/order.html


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