First the Moon, Now Antarctica: China Mapping Bottom of the World in Awesome Detail

Chinese scientists have shifted its focus from mapping the moon to completing the world’s first land cover map of the Antarctica at the end of this year. The result will be the most accurate map of the continent ever published.

Using the application of high resolution remote sensing technology, the map will be the first ever to show the distribution of key features on the continent, including sea ice, snow, blue ice, rocks, soil marshes, lakes and ice crevasse. The map is also based on 1,073 images acquired from the U.S. satellite Land sat mainly during the austral summer from 1999 to 2002.

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