2007 EARTH SCIENCE VIDEOTAPES |
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| ANTARCTICA IN HI-DEF (LIMA) | G07-077 | 11/28/07 | 10:41 | On Tuesday, November 27, 2007, a team of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey will unveil a newly completed map of Antarctica. The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica, a nearly cloudless satellite view of Antarctica's frozen landscape, was a tremendous international effort that is expected to modernize Antarctic research.
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| ITEM (1): LIMA Flyover - The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica provides a realistic look at the continent in much greater detail than ever before and offers the most geographically accurate, true-color and high-resolution views of the continent possible.
Courtesy: NASA/USGS/NSF/BAS
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| ITEM (2): Landsat versus MODIS Image Comparison - The following sequence shows a comparison of the same Antarctic scenes from two different NASA remote sensors. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra and Aqua satellites provides the low resolution and the Landsat 7 satellite provides the high resolution. Until now, the MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA), released in October 2005, was the highest resolution complete map of Antarctica available.
Courtesy: NASA/USGS/NSF/BAS
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| ITEM (3): Scene Selection - Researchers pieced together more than a thousand images from three years of Landsat satellite observations to construct the map.
Courtesy: NASA/USGS/NSF/BAS
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| ITEM (4): The Landsat 7 Satellite - NASA's Landsat 7 satellite collects moderate-resolution optical images all over the globe. The following is an animation of the Landsat 7 satellite.
Courtesy: NASA
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| ITEM (5): Interview with Robert Bindschadler - Bob Bindschadler is a chief scientist of NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Courtesy: NASA
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