This report summarizes the results of a nine-week summer project examining all Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photography (DISP) of Antarctica. It was discovered that the data were collected in three separate missions during 1962 and 1963. The first two missions covered only the coastal areas, while the third mission covered the entire continent. Many of the 1782 frames collected were cloudy. This is especially true of West Antarctica. An optimal set of photographs covering the entire Antarctic coastline is identified along with some examples that show changes in the coastline which have occurred since the early 1960s.


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    Title :

    Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photography (DISP) Coverage of Antarctica


    Contributors:
    R. Bindschadler (author) / W. Seider (author)

    Publication date :

    1998


    Size :

    44 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English