Laser Mapping The Earth
NASA scientist Bryan Blair introduces a laser mapping sensor known as LVIS (the Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor), which is flown by aircraft over target areas to collect data on surface topography and vegetation cover. Bryan also discusses the benefits to mounting LVIS onto high-altitude, long-duration aircraft such as the Global Hawk.
NASA's Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor, known as "LVIS," is a scanning laser altimeter instrument that is flown on aircraft.
Now mounted on the high-altitude, long duration Global Hawk UAV, LVIS can help scientists better map the Earth. The data that LVIS provides, combined with high-resolution still images, can be used to create interactive 3-D maps.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Video editors
- David Ladd (USRA)
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
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Interviewee
- Bryan Blair (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- David Ladd (USRA)
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Scientists
- Bryan Blair (NASA/GSFC)
- Ryan Dotson (Fireball Information Technologies LLC)
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Project support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Videographers
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Jefferson Beck (USRA)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, June 9, 2014.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:50 PM EDT.
Series
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This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
Laser Mapping the Earth
(ID: 2013082)
Monday, June 9, 2014 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Marit Jentoft-Nilsen (RSIS)