Breakthrough Map of Antarctica Lays Ground for New Discoveries
11.27.07
A team of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey unveiled today a newly completed map of Antarctica that provides a realistic look at the continent in 10 times greater detail than ever before and offers the most geographically accurate, true-color, and high-resolution views of the continent possible.
Multimedia
Robert Bindschadler

1. Poster of Antarctica With Inset
Researchers pieced together more than a thousand images from three years of Landsat satellite observations to construct LIMA.
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2. Comparison of LIMA and MODIS
The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica provides a realistic look at the continent in 10 times greater detail than ever before and offers the most geographically accurate, true-color, and high-resolution views of the continent possible.
+ LIMA High resolution+ MODIS High Resolution
3. Contrast Stretch
A technique called "contrast stretching" helps show the details that are still contained in LIMA's image data but are mostly hidden from our eyes due to Antarctica's reflective snow-covered surface.
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4. Flyover
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+ HD Videos
Scott Borg
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Ray Byrnes

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5. Satellite video
The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. Since 1972, Landsat satellites have collected information about Earth from space.

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6. Las Vegas Perspective
Contrasted against LIMA, a Landsat perspective on urban growth in Las Vegas, Nevada provides an example of how versatile Landsat data is.

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7. Mt. Kilimanjaro
The Landsat satellite captured these images of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, on February 17, 1993 and February 21, 2000.
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Andrew Fleming
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Robert Bindschadler - Demo of LIMA

Click on image above to view a PDF of the Powerpoint demo. This PDF contains a demo of how to use the LIMA web sites. (9 Mb)