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The Macquarie Island Base becomes virtually â Australian Antarctic Division

The Macquarie Island research base will be recorded in 360 degrees of 360 degrees of real time this months to support the rehabilitation of the base and give a historic overview of the area. Macquarie Island Modernisation Project Manager Adrian Young from Antarctica, Australia, is travelling to the subantarctic island on Australia's ice-breaker Aurora Australis today with a crew from Tasmania-based Sky Avenue Photography and Design.

Young-Young said the photo crew will take 360-degree pictures from inside and outside the center and the area, and merge them to allow a complete walk around the site. âThis will help the Australian Antarctic Division and the prospective General Contractor to get ready for the planning and building phases of the Australian Antarctic Village as well as the closure of the present Antarctic Base,â said Mr Young.

Photographs also give the designer an insight into the island's vibrant environment, especially where building material has to be loaded from the boat, shipped to the island and warehoused. It will help them understand how freight is handled on the island,â Mr Young said.

For eight and a half day, Sky Avenue's father-daughter David and Madeleine Rayward will use fisheye lens based broadband ASRs to take hundreds of thousand pictures of the terrain and a small UAV to take air photos. When merged, the pictures appear similar to Google StreetView. âThe 360-degree pictures are overlaid on a satelite card so you can see an air photograph of the houses and small hot spots for each house you can click on,â said Mr Rayward.

sky avenue recently concluded a CSIRO Marine National Facility RV Investigator online walkthrough, which brought together approximately 2,500 pictures and needed over 95,000 webs. You do not anticipate that the Macquarie Island will work so great work, but the meteorological, rather than the size of the photograph, is the biggest challange for the couple.

âUsually 360-degree shooting in the rainy weather is not possible because the lense is bent, so we had to make a specific low profile hoods and modify our processes to do the job,â said Mr. Rayward. This end result will be available to the Macquarie Island modernization teams around April.

It will be available on cell phone and desktops as well as via digital headset. Situated about 1540 kilometers southward of Tasmania, Macquarie Island is halfway to the Antarctic continent. Macquarie Island Research Ward Modernisation Project was founded to build a new research base on subantarctic Macquarie Island.