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As of June 15, 2022, Maxar Technologies transitioned from the NextView License to the Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) License. The EOCL license applies to Maxar commercial imagery and derived products (such as Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and Digital Surface Models…
Let’s Connect! The Polar Geospatial Center is launching a PGC user community Slack! This is a shared space for community members to connect with one another. Join and connect with the community here: JOIN SLACK Feel free to create channels…
PGC attends the 2023 Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names
PGC attends the 2023 Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names In May 2023, two members of the PGC team attended the 2023 Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names (UNGEGN) at…
Beyond the Poles PGC aided NASA researchers in leveraging satellite imagery to produce a census of trees across the Sahara. The research was just published as the cover story for this month’s issue of Nature. PGC both supplied over 300,000…
The PGC is excited to share with our partners from the Great Lake Alliance for Remote Sensing (GLARS) and SharedGeo the public release of high-resolution digital surface models (DSMs) across the Great Lakes Basin. Now available for use by researchers,…
Documentary Details Atlas of a Changing Earth (ACE) is a short film that discusses how a new revolution in map making techniques can help us better understand climate change. Stunning visualizations take viewers into the dynamic processes causing coastal glaciers…
PGC is excited to announce its newest allocation on Frontera, the largest academic supercomputer in the world located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. PGC received 2.2 million node hours on Frontera…
Quantarctica Version 3 Released! What is Quantarctica? Quantarctica is a collection of Antarctic geographical datasets which works with the free, open-source software QGIS. It currently includes geography, glaciology and geophysics data, and will expand with contributions from the research community….
We’re expanding beyond the polar regions! Announcing EarthDEM – High resolution (2m!) time-stamped elevation data for non-polar regions. EarthDEM’s repeat observations allow unprecedented change detection while its polished mosaic models provide beautiful visualization and comprehensive coverage. Select regions of the…
Be sure to check out QGreenland, a new free GIS package of amazing datasets including PGC’s ArcticDEM. Find a press release with more info here, and grab the download at qgreenland.org…