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Q61
(IAS/1998)
Geography › Maps & Locations › World physical geography
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The satellites of which one of the following countries have helped in the preparation of a detailed and complete map of Antarctica ?
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The detailed, complete high-resolution mapping of Antarctica was produced using data from Canada’s RADARSAT-1 satellite. The RADARSAT Image Map of Antarctica, released in 1999, was the first high-resolution map of the entire continent and is explicitly identified as the product of the RADARSAT-1 Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP), a partnership led by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and NASA [1]. RADARSAT-1, developed by CSA, provided the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery used to create a continent-wide mosaic (down to ~25 m resolution) and to map ice features and ice-flow velocities, enabling the comprehensive Antarctic map [2]. Thus the satellites of Canada enabled the detailed mapping effort.
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- [1] https://data.pgc.umn.edu/sat/prod/lima/cir1x/CIR1X_x-0450000y+1350000.htm
- [2] https://asf.alaska.edu/datasets/daac/radarsat-1antarctic-mapping-project-ramp/
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