Landsat Part of NASA's IPY Cutting-Edge Polar Exploration and Research

May 29, 2007 • NASA has announced the selection of 33 scientific investigations which have been funded to study the polar regions of Earth as part of the objectives of the International Polar Year (IPY). Three of these scientific investigations will utilized Landsat data. Landsat will help researches look at glacier distribution in part of the Asian Arctic Basin, measure the ice discharge of Antarctica's terrestrial ice sheet, and map tree abundance in forest-tundra transition zones.

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