…it is to the science community. I then ran a planetary imaging lab at Caltech for 7 years before joining PGC. Why did you choose PGC? PGC is a perfect match for my polar science background and my remote sensing…
Explore the differences between monoscopic and stereoscopic satellite imagery….
…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…
What I Do I help create, maintain, and execute image processing workflows that transform raw satellite imagery into data products that are usable by polar researchers. Education M.S. Geographic Information Science, Northwest Missouri State University, Expected 2023 B.S. Civil Engineering,…
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…
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….
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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. …