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Quantarctica Version 3 Released

Quantarctica Version 3 Released

Posted on February 6, 2018June 6, 2018Categories News, ProjectsTags Antarctica, Data Release, Quantarctica

Quantarctica, a free GIS for Antarctica, releases Version 3 with hundreds of GIS layers.

Important Changes to NGA Guidelines for Commercial Satellite Imagery Use

Posted on January 4, 2018June 6, 2018Categories NewsTags DigitalGlobe, Newsletter, NextView License, Satellite Imagery

Commercial satellite imagery users, please read! Important changes effective immediately.

ArcticDEM Release 6

ArcticDEM Release 6

Posted on September 6, 2017June 6, 2018Categories News, ProjectsTags ArcticDEM, Data Release, DEM, Elevation

ArcticDEM Release 6 adds much of Russia and Scandinavia. ArcticDEM now covers 97% of the Arctic.

ArcticDEM Wins HPC Innovation Excellence Award

Posted on June 21, 2017June 6, 2018Categories NewsTags ArcticDEM, Awards

PGC’s ArcticDEM project was awarded in the HPC User Innovation category.

ArcticDEM Release 5

ArcticDEM Release 5

Posted on June 2, 2017June 6, 2018Categories News, ProjectsTags Arctic, ArcticDEM, Data Release, Newsletter

More, more & more! Fifth release adds more data than ever before including: Eastern Greenland, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, … Continue reading ArcticDEM Release 5

ArcticDEM Featured in NCSA Blue Waters [video]

ArcticDEM Featured in NCSA Blue Waters [video]

Posted on May 2, 2017June 6, 2018Categories NewsTags Arctic, ArcticDEM, Paul Morin, Staff News, Video

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released their 2016 Annual Report. PGC’s Paul … Continue reading ArcticDEM Featured in NCSA Blue Waters [video]

Paul Morin invited as PEARC17 Keynote Speaker

Paul Morin invited as PEARC17 Keynote Speaker

Posted on April 25, 2017June 6, 2018Categories NewsTags Conference, Paul Morin, Staff News

The organizers of PEARC17 (Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing) today announced the keynote speakers for the conference in … Continue reading Paul Morin invited as PEARC17 Keynote Speaker

UMN Alumni Spotlight on PGC’s Claire Porter

UMN Alumni Spotlight on PGC’s Claire Porter

Posted on March 27, 2017June 6, 2018Categories NewsTags Arctic, ArcticDEM, Staff News

PGC’s Remote Sensing Scientist Claire Porter was recently featured in an interview for the University of Minnesota’s College of Science … Continue reading UMN Alumni Spotlight on PGC’s Claire Porter

SETSM 3.1.0 Open Release

SETSM 3.1.0 Open Release

Posted on February 24, 2017June 6, 2018Categories NewsTags ArcticDEM, DEM, Elevation, SETSM

About SETSM The Surface Extraction with TIN-based Search-space Minimization (SETSM) algorithm, is the first fully-automatic DEM extraction software specifically designed … Continue reading SETSM 3.1.0 Open Release

ArcticDEM Release 4: Updates and New Regions

ArcticDEM Release 4: Updates and New Regions

Posted on February 14, 2017June 6, 2018Categories News, ProjectsTags Arctic, ArcticDEM, Newsletter

Overview ArcticDEM is an NGA-NSF public-private initiative to produce a high-resolution, high quality, digital surface model (DSM) of the Arctic … Continue reading ArcticDEM Release 4: Updates and New Regions

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PGC Service Interruption

Important notice from the PGC.

The University of Minnesota is undergoing planned maintenance on its data center from Friday, January 5, 2017 4:00p to Sunday, January 7, 2018 12:00p. PGC services will be unavailable at that time. We apologize for any inconvenience!

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