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PGC’s Cole Kelleher Appointed as U.S. Representative to SCAGI
The Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) is very excited to share honorable news that Cole Kelleher is the newly designated U.S. representative to the international SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI). This position was previously held by former PGC…
…quarantining at home has its similarities to working at McMurdo Station, Antarctica). Our ongoing commitment to supporting the polar science community remains unchanged. We hope our services can help those impacted by cancelled fieldwork or interrupted science and logistics by…
…Charles Kaminski, NSF / USAP Photo Library. Explanation of Support Data: Custom mapping and processed satellite imagery Using high-resolution imagery collected by commercial satellites, PGC staff created two series of maps at two different scales, totalling 32 unique maps. The…
…It is free for non-commercial use, such as research, education, and operation in Antarctica. Quantarctica was originally developed for in-house use at the Norwegian Polar Institute. Development on a public version started in 2012, and the first version was released…
…developing high-resolution continental-wide elevation mapping is a powerful new resource for science in a rapidly changing world. Article https://www.the-cryosphere.net/13/665/2019/ Citation Howat, I. M., Porter, C., Smith, B. E., Noh, M.-J., and Morin, P.: The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, The…
…(above) dates between 1978 to 1986. Access the data via our Alaska Map Viewer or browse the server. Shapefiles of flightlines and photocenters and more information are readily available on our website: https://www.pgc.umn.edu/data/aerial/. PGC Conference Connections Earlier this month, PGC…
…will do the rest. More information about the approval process and acknowledgement policy can be found at the links below. Citation and Publication Approval PGC Acknowledgement Policy PGC Exhibitor Booth PGC is hosting an exhibitor booth this year. Please consider…
NASA Research Announcement includes EarthDEM resource + Pre-Proposal Conference
…government-funded researchers will receive access via NASA’s cloud-computing environment. Additional information regarding these products is available at https://www.pgc.umn.edu/data/earthdem. NASA NSPIRES Notice Solicitation pdf Pre-Proposal Conference Date: wed., august 4, 2021 time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM eastern host: NASA meeting…
The PGC Coordinate Converter is a simple web-based application to convert geographic coordinates between formats….
…was recently featured in an interview for the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering. In it, she talks about some of the challenges she’s experienced while working on the ArcticDEM project. Read the full interview here: https://www.cs.umn.edu/news/alumni-spotlight-claire-porter. …