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Most Detailed Maps Of Polar Regions Ever Created

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
NSF
December 6, 2022
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Most Detailed Maps Of Polar Regions Ever Created
Scientists have released the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever created. Credit: Polar Geospatial Center/University of Minnesota/Maxar/ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities has released four more years of high-resolution imagery data, which has been added to eight years of previous data, to make the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever created. The maps use high-resolution satellite data to show the polar regions in detail and will provide new insights into the effects of climate change over time.

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