Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Satellite Imagery Used to Trace Lewis & Clark Route

Posted by timothy on from the visit-the-st-louis-museum-too dept.

Woogiemonger writes "To commemorate the 200 year anniversary of the Lewis & Clark expedition, NASA and other researchers are using satellite and aircraft remote-sensing technology to accurately reconstruct the path of the Lewis & Clark expedition, down to the precise location of each encampment. Considering many parts of the landscape along the path may have changed dramatically, this is no easy task. The final result will be a 3D interactive map publicly available on the WWW."

3 of 112 comments (clear)

  1. Re:web by ebbomega · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I personally call it the Inter-web, or even more endearingly, Mr. Interweb (whom I play with under the supervision of my close friend, Mr. Google).

    --
    Karma: Non-Heinous
  2. Why can't I by t0qer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Get a sattelite with a HUGE fricken laser beam attatched to it's forhead?

  3. Re:I have faith in technology, but not that much. by _xeno_ · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Nah, it's easy to get out of Boston. Just follow all the other cars that aren't going anywhere, either.

    Grumble...grumble... Freshpond Parkway is right...

    Then there's the fun trip on Mass Ave, where it suddenly becomes a one-way street past Harvard (Univ). Plus the "guess which lane is the x turn only lane" games that seems popular...

    Oh, yeah, and what does Brown do for me? Block the right hand lane with their stupid delivery trucks! Thanks a lot!

    Of course, driving in Boston is not the problem. The problem is parking in Boston...

    --
    You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.