Modified Antarctic Mapping Mission (MAMM)

The Radarsat-1 Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP) was a collaboration between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency to map Antarctica using SAR. The MAMM was a continuity mission of RAMP and occurred during the fall of 2000. The acquisition strategy concentrated on collecting three cycles of highest-resolution Radarsat-1 data of Antarctica's fast glaciers for change detection, feature tracking estimates of surface velocity, and interferometric analysis of velocity and coherence over the entire viewable region, which extends north of 80.1°S latitude.

As part of our support of the science team I helped in evaluating the quality of data in general and checking the data sets acquired at the McMurdo groundstation in particular. I carried out initial testing of data in terms of its suitability of SAR interferometric processing. This project helped us to set up the SAR interferometric processing of Radarsat data. The data sets of this mission include some of the most spectacular looking radar images I have ever seen.