Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica Flyover of McMurdo Station and Dry Valleys
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- Lori Perkins
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A narrated version of this visualization can be found at #10416: Guided Tour of LIMA Flyover.
This image shows the Dry Valleys region near Antarctica's McMurdo Station. Many years of relentless wind have swept these valleys clean of their snow cover. The same wind has also created blue ice in the large Koettlitz Glacier to the left of this image. LIMA shows remarkable detail in the Royal Society Range that separates the Koettliz Glacier and the Ferrar Glacier. This image was requested by Dr. Ed Dunlea for an International Polar Year report at the National Academy of Sciences.
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC) LIMA data produced by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA
Animators
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
Scientist
- Bob Bindschadler (NASA/GSFC)
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Landsat-7 Band Combination 3, 2, 1 (Collected with the ETM+ sensor)
Dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
See more visualizations using this data setLandsat-7 LIMA (A.K.A. Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica) (Collected with the ETM+ sensor)
Mosaicing to avoid clouds produced a high quality, nearly cloud-free benchmark data set of Antarctica for the International Polar Year from images collected primarily during 1999-2003.
Dataset can be found at: http://lima.nasa.gov/
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