Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica Flyover of Western Antarctica

  • Released Friday, October 31st, 2008
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:55PM
  • ID: 3537

The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a data product funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The LIMA data shown here uses the pan-chromatic band and has a resolution of 15 meters per pixel. The 13 swaths used to generate this sample mosaic where acquired between December 25, 1999 and December 31, 2001. The elevation data shown has no vertical exaggeration (1x) and is courtesy of the Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP) Digital Elevation Model (DEM).
The Russkaya station was a Soviet Antarctic research station that opened in 1980 and closed in 1990.

The Russkaya station was a Soviet Antarctic research station that opened in 1980 and closed in 1990.

This image is LIMA's view of Smyley Island, Spaatz Island, and the George VI Ice Shelf.

This image is LIMA's view of Smyley Island, Spaatz Island, and the George VI Ice Shelf.

Mt. Takahe volcano in West Antarctica (76.2 °S, 112°W).Mt. Takahe in West Antarctica has a summit which is more than 1000 meters above the surrounding ice sheet.

Mt. Takahe volcano in West Antarctica (76.2 °S, 112°W).

Mt. Takahe in West Antarctica has a summit which is more than 1000 meters above the surrounding ice sheet.



Credits

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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


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Datasets used in this visualization

Landsat-7 Band Combination 3, 2, 1 (Collected with the ETM+ sensor)
Landsat-7 LIMA (A.K.A. Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica) (Collected with the ETM+ sensor)
Mosaic NASA/GSFC, British Antarctic Survey, USGS EROS Data Center 12/25/1999 - 12/31/2001

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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RAMP DEM (A.K.A. Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP) Digital Elevation Model (DEM))
Data Compilation NSIDC

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