U014
Seeing Smaller, Larger, Deeper but Thinking Bigger – Imaging the Earth’s Surface
Seeing Smaller, Larger, Deeper but Thinking Bigger – Imaging the Earth’s Surface
Session ID#: 160488
Session Description:
Much of the output of Geoscience is intensely visual. Whether it be maps, sections or simply photographs, images come at all scales from nanometer to solar system dimensions. For example, the surface of the Earth once mapped laboriously on foot and by hand is now imaged via satellite borne multispectral sensors. Imaging has facilitated transformative advances in understanding across all of Earth, Space and Planetary Sciences. This session, the first in a series of sessions on imaging, focuses on imaging of the Earth’s surface. We invite contributions that review where imaging of the Earth surface has come from (legacy), illustrate the development of the fields and techniques for imaging the Earth’s surface, and provide a view towards the future. Topics of interest include geological mapping, continental tectonics and resource assessment, mass movement of material across the Earth’s surface, ice in sheets and streams, and biological productivity of land.
Index Terms:
9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
Primary Convener: Susan Roberts, The National Academies, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners: Tissa H Illangasekare, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Civil and & Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Anne Meltzer, Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States and Eileen E Hofmann, Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States
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