October 11, China's 26th Antarctic scientific expedition team take the "Snow Dragon" was the polar scientific research ship, from Shanghai Pudong, China polar expedition departed went to the domestic base of the Antarctic. Survey team inspected a total of 251 players, since China's first Antarctic expedition in 1984, the largest ever since the staff. Examine the implementation of 59 scientific expedition team task is the task of China's Antarctic expedition in the history of the heaviest one. Expedition mapping the five players - Jia-chun, Huang Jifeng, Lu Zhi-Yue Han Hui-jun, Wang Zemin, will be held in Antarctic Great Wall Station and Zhongshan Station, Kunlun station and Grove Hill areas the implementation of the task mapping expedition.

In the Great Wall Station, installation surveying and mapping expedition spring will perform two tasks: First GPS satellite tracking station in the maintenance and updates. Great Wall Station of China to participate in the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Organization Satellite Battle of the Antarctic GPS observations to monitor the Antarctic plate motion is one of the base station. The Observatory in 2008 turned into a perennial GPS tracking stations, this year will further software updates and hardware maintenance, remote remote control and data transmission on a regular basis. Second, for GIS data collection. The past two years, the Great Wall Station and transform a lot of new buildings, changes in geographic information faster Station area. Mapping team will be based on conditions on the ground on-site photo shoot features in texture, measuring body building, gathering space environment information to update the Great Wall Station in perfect three-dimensional virtual images and related data.


In Zhongshan Station, Lu Zhi-Yue Huang Jifeng, and the main task, we carried out the Southern Ocean Prietz Bay Area Auto tide station construction. Tide-gauge sea level data to analyze changes in the polar regions to study the Antarctic mass balance is one important means. This study used the tide gauge system that will try to Zhongshan Station Swan Ridge offshore ice chisel holes in the seabed installation of new automatic tide gauge sensors, and connect low-temperature-resistant, anti-high extrusion dedicated data cable to the Zhongshan Station GPS satellites observation room. This is the building of China's independent only in the Antarctic ocean tides automatic tide gauge stations, the station completed, the Antarctic sea-level change for our country to carry out research, participation in other international cooperation to provide strong support. Second, the implementation of GPS satellite tracking station operation and maintenance tasks. GPS tracking station at Zhongshan Station in Antarctica to establish China's first annual GPS tracking station, mapping team will be wintering in the Zhongshan Station in order to ensure that the satellite tracking station and the new tide gauge stations data and information collection, to achieve a normal and stable operation.


In the Kunlun station, Han Hui-jun First, the task of surveying and mapping in China in the Antarctic ice sheet inland boundary of Dome A range of management areas, and second, to ice movement retest. This is a Chinese scientific expedition team members mapping the 4th to the highest point of the Antarctic inland icecap sprint, obtained from Zhongshan Station to Dome A, and the Kunlun station area along the ice flow displacement vectors, to glacier dynamics studies and the study of the Antarctic environmental change has important significance.


Wang Zemin will assume the core area of the Grove Mountains 2,000 meters on the bare ice peak elevation angle measurement tasks, for the Grove Mountains Chinese Antarctic Specially Protected Areas related to surveying and mapping, and using ground-penetrating radar measurement of ice thickness and ice in the region such as the topography under the . The Grove Mountains expedition is one of the highlights of this expedition, after surveying and mapping personnel have conducted four times the Grove Mountains mapping, geology and glaciology comprehensive survey, field mapping of the Grove Mountains, the surface of the core area of 110 square kilometers topographic maps and maps of protected areas; emplaced 10 geodetic control points, seven ice-flow monitoring stations; the use of different resolution optical images, SAR images, carried out the distribution of the ice fissure information extraction research, production of the Grove Mountains region Flat satellite image maps, digital elevation models and a wide range of blue ice distribution maps, for my recovery to the 9834 Antarctic meteorites have made contributions.