The Future of Antarctic Airborne Geophysical Capabilites Workshop in Colorado, August 2002

0135270 finn该奖项由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）极地计划办公室（OPP）提供，为一个旨在探索南极社区未来航空地球物理需求的研讨会提供支持。需要为南极计划开发一个新的航空地球物理设施，以便在南极洲的所有地区解决从地壳结构和构造到冰盖结构和冰川动力学等关键科学问题。科学界对研究南极洲东部和西部偏远地区的兴趣，以及对裸露岩石周围区域的详细观察，需要考虑空中平台，如远程飞机（C-130, P-3）或直升机，除了双水獭。最近开发了新的仪器，例如用于高分辨率（1米）航空地形测绘和成像光谱仪（AVIRIS）的测绘系统。SOAR设施的损失使美国南极计划无法远程绘制冰下地质和冰盖特征，从而限制了解决南极地质和冰川学基本问题的能力。将NSF南极计划目标和在之前的研讨会中确定的科学目标与开发新的航空地球物理能力联系起来的研讨会，可能会产生一个重点项目，将广泛的科学目标与适当的航空地球物理工具和平台结合起来。该奖项将支持一个研讨会，该研讨会将帮助确定对南极地球科学和冰川学社区最有用的机载地球物理设施（仪器和平台）类型，用于解决关键目标地区的重要科学问题。

0135270FinnThis award, provided by the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), provides support for a workshop designed to explore the future aerogeophysical needs of the Antarctic community. A new airborne geophysical facility needs to be developed for the Antarctic Program so that key scientific questions, ranging from crustal structure and tectonics to ice sheet structure and glacial dynamics, can be addressed in all regions of Antarctica. Interest from the scientific community to study remote areas of East and West Antarctica as well as look in detail at areas around exposed rocks require consideration of airborne platforms such as long-range aircraft (C-130's, P-3) or helicopters in addition to the Twin Otter. New instrumentation, such as swath-mapping systems for high-resolution (1 m) airborne mapping of topography and imaging spectometers (AVIRIS), has recently been developed. The loss of the SOAR facility leaves the U.S. Antarctic program without a means to remotely map sub-ice geology as well as ice sheet characteristics, thus limiting the ability to address fundamental questions in Antarctic geology and glaciology. A workshop tying the NSF Antarctic program goals and science targets identified in previous workshops to the development of new airborne geophysics capabilities could result in a focused program to combine broad science goals with the appropriate airbornegeophysical tools and platforms. This award will support a workshop that will help define the type of airborne geophysical facility (instruments and platforms) most useful for the AntarcticEarth Science and Glaciology communities to use to address important science issues in key target areas.