Antarctic Mapping Mission Planning Aids

• Main Authors: Noltimier, Katy F., Li, Biyan, Hongxing, Liu, Hong, Gyoo Sohn, Forster, Rick, Zhiltsov, Victor, Chan, Ada, Jezek, Kenneth C.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University/ 1997
• Subjects: Antarctic Mapping Mission; RADARSAT; Antarctic; Byrd; Larsen Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Wordie; Wordie Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey; Byrd Polar Research; Byrd Polar Research Center; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; National Snow and Ice Data Center; Polar Research; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/51378

On November 4, 1995, the Canadian RADARSAT was carried aloft by a NASA rocket launched from Vandenburg Air Force Base. Radarsat is equipped with a C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) capable of acquiring high resolution (25 m) images of Earth's surface day or night and under all weather condi...