Falkland Islands & Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition 1955-57...
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Picking Up Penguins From Space
Historical aerial photographs: Images taken by Falkland Islands Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) on the 31st January 1957 were digitally scanned and geo-referenced to the WorldView-2 data. They were then divided into polygons and analysed using manual classification processing using the open source QGIS software.
This comprises approximately 12,800 frames, taken on 26,700 kilometres of ground track. The photography was acquired between February 1956 and December 1957. The images are vertical, monochrome photographs in the standard 9" x 9" format; some small format (5" x 5") oblique photographs are also available for a restricted geographical coverage. The original negatives are held by BAS. The photography provides systematic coverage of the South Shetland Islands and the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula as far south as the northern extremity of Marguerite Bay.
Flight-line index maps are available for most of the coverage. For details of holdings of a particular area, please contact:
Mrs Janet W. Thomson
Head of the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre
British Antarctic Survey
High Cross Madingley Road
CAMBRIDGE CB3 OET
UNITED KINGDOM
telephone: +44 (0)1223 221424
e-mail: jwth@bas.ac.uk
Contact prints of the FIDASE photography can be ordered through Mrs Thomson. Permission will be required from all of the authorities named above to reproduce any supplied photograph.
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Aerial Survey Expedition 1955-57
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