The Soviet army extensively mapped the karezi during the 1980's war, using aerial photography and the help of local villagers, and the Russian defense ministry is said to have passed the maps on to the United States.
Extensively mapping a microbe community can allow scientists to predict how an entire system would react to changes.
Indeed, the collider's Ellis County site, 30 miles south of Dallas and roughly the size of the region encircled by the Washington Beltway, is now arguably the world's most extensively and accurately mapped landscape.
The binomial name of the species was named in honour of the explorer Captain Matthew Flinders, who circumnavigated and extensively mapped the coastline of Australia.
While there, he and four assistants extensively mapped the southern hemisphere skies using newly developed photometric methods.
Along with a team of other scuba explorers, he extensively mapped the reef system around the island for sport divers.
European presence began around the year 1500, when groups were sent out to extensively map the borders of South America and the surrounding islands.
Clayton spent nearly 20 years with the Egyptian Survey department during the 1920s and 1930s extensively mapping large areas of previously unmapped desert.
Its second use was on the USS Gettysburg, an ocean-going vessel used in 1875 to extensively map the Eastern Atlantic seafloor.