Snow, Icebergs, and Pack Ice

Close-up Views of a Polynya and Adjacent Ice Cracks with OLS and AVHRR Visible Imagery (Page 3 of 4)

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  zoomed dmsp image showing water, ice cracks, and land features over the antarctic. 

zoomed avhrr image showing water, ice cracks, and land features over the antarctic.

Let's zoom in again on the region of the polynya. We can now start to see the benefits of the superior OLS spatial resolution. Notice that ice cracks are more sharply defined in the OLS visible image than in the AVHRR image.

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