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Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project
The National Park Service and xRez Studio have created one of the world’s largest photographic images, an amazingly detailed photographic map of Yosemite Valley. Seeing is believing, and believe me, you won’t need to squint!
Yosemite Valley, the heavily-developed visitor hub of Yosemite National Park, is a place of great beauty, but it is also a place where frequent rockfalls pose serious risks to people and property. Some of the more than 600 rockfalls documented since 1850 have injured or killed visitors. In October 2008, rockfalls below Glacier Point forced the closing of roughly one-third of the Camp Curry complex, significantly reducing the park’s supply of low-cost lodging.
To support their studies of Yosemite Valley rockfalls, geologists needed panoramic imagery of very large scale and very high resolution so they could, among other things, use repeat-image analysis (before-and-after views) of places where rock peeled off the valley walls. To do a proper job of it, the imagery would have to provide a seamless, highly detailed view of the many miles of cliff faces that rim the valley. In short, they needed a basemap that could only be produced by extreme panoramic imagery.
See more at:
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com...-ever-seen5149
Link to image:
http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/n...yose25133.html
Yosemite Valley, the heavily-developed visitor hub of Yosemite National Park, is a place of great beauty, but it is also a place where frequent rockfalls pose serious risks to people and property. Some of the more than 600 rockfalls documented since 1850 have injured or killed visitors. In October 2008, rockfalls below Glacier Point forced the closing of roughly one-third of the Camp Curry complex, significantly reducing the park’s supply of low-cost lodging.
To support their studies of Yosemite Valley rockfalls, geologists needed panoramic imagery of very large scale and very high resolution so they could, among other things, use repeat-image analysis (before-and-after views) of places where rock peeled off the valley walls. To do a proper job of it, the imagery would have to provide a seamless, highly detailed view of the many miles of cliff faces that rim the valley. In short, they needed a basemap that could only be produced by extreme panoramic imagery.
See more at:
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com...-ever-seen5149
Link to image:
http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/n...yose25133.html
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