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….
Missed out on the newsletter via email? Sign up here! PGC at AGU22 Publishing and Policies PGC Users planning on attending the upcoming AGU fall meeting and presenting and/or publishing any commercial satellite imagery (i.e. Maxar constellation – WorldView 1/2/3,…
We are honored to announce the EarthDEM team was recognized for the Best Academic / Government Collaboration in this year’s HPCWire Editors’ Choice Awards at the 2019 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC19) in Denver,…
…civil engineering, and aircraft safety, along with many, many other science, governmental and commercial applications. PGC and our partners in the ArcticDEM project are honored to receive this award! Read the original HPC Wire article from June 19, 2017 https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/hyperion-research-announces-hpc-innovation-excellence-award-winners/…
…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. …
The PGC Coordinate Converter is a simple web-based application to convert geographic coordinates between formats….
…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…
…staff and students attended (in-person and virtually) Pipelines and Indigenous Communities: Extractive Infrastructures and Water-Dependent Livelihoods, an impactful conference hosted at the University of Minnesota Duluth campus and co-sponsored by the University of Northern Iowa ARCTICenter and Community Engagement Exchange…
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…
Detailed workflow for searching for satellite imagery and requesting it from the PGC….