Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photography (DISP) Coverage of Antarctica

This report summarizes the results of a nine-week summer project examining all Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photography (DISP) of Antarctica. It was discovered that the data were collected in three separate missions during 1962 and 1963. The first two missions covered only the coastal areas,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bindschadler, Robert, Seider, Wendy
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 1998
Subjects:
Earth Resources and Remote Sensing
Antarctic
West Antarctica
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19990009049
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Summary:This report summarizes the results of a nine-week summer project examining all Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photography (DISP) of Antarctica. It was discovered that the data were collected in three separate missions during 1962 and 1963. The first two missions covered only the coastal areas, while the third mission covered the entire continent. Many of the 1782 frames collected were cloudy. This is especially true of West Antarctica. An optimal set of photographs covering the entire Antarctic coastline is identified along with some examples that show changes in the coastline which have occurred since the early 1960s.

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