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G434: The Antarctic Geospatial Information Center: Collecting, Creating, Delivering and Archiving for the Community

Start date:
Mid December
End date:
late January
Locations:
Bull Pass
Principle Investigator:
Paul Morin
Organisation:
University of Minnesota
State
Minnesota
Field season overview:
A geographic information system (GIS) student will arrive at McMurdo Station in mid-December to provide GIS support to science and operations activities. A GIS analyst will arrive later that month to assist the student and to prepare for field work. Other team members will arrive at McMurdo in early January. They will break into thee teams of two people. Each team will spend about ten days at the fixed field camps in Taylor Valley, traveling by helocopter to locations around the southern Dry Valleys to collect ground control. Team members will also spend about five days making day trips around Ross Island collecting GPS ground control points.
The Antarctic Geospatial Information Center (AGIC) team will collect high resolution GPS points for use in georeferencing existing air photography in the Dry Valleys. The resulting photos will be used to create a mosaic, and support science and operations activities.