The PGC is proud to announce Claire Porter is the recipient of the 2019 NOAA David Johnson Award for Outstanding Innovative Use of Earth Observation Satellite Data for her work contributing to the production of ArcticDEM and REMA! Her achievements…
PGC’s Cole Kelleher was featured in Episode 42: Mapping the Polar Regions in the Time to Eat the Dogs podcast. Time to Eat the Dogs, by Hillyer College, University of Hartford professor Michael Robinson is a “blog about science, history,…
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released their 2016 Annual Report. PGC’s Paul Morin is featured in an accompanying video, highlighting the use of the supercomputer for the ArcticDEM project. The NCSA…
Glossary of parameters that PGC requires when processing imagery including file formats, projections, orthorectification, and other options….
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica: Contribute Your Ground Control Points
The Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, Ohio State Univ., in collaboration with the PGC, is soliciting the international Antarctic scientific community for available Ground Control Points (GCPs) from the Antarctic continent and sub-Antarctic islands. GCPs will be used for…
About SETSM The Surface Extraction with TIN-based Search-space Minimization (SETSM) algorithm, is the first fully-automatic DEM extraction software specifically designed for sub-meter imagery over a range of terrain, including snow, ice and shadowed topography. This software package, used to create…
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…
…wheel-ski gear, the Wing assists NSF’s polar research programs. The unit began annual support to NSF in the Antarctic in 1999. Since then, the Wing has completed dozens of missions each season, flying hundreds of researchers and support staff and…
This presentation has been recorded and is available here. In light of the Arctic and Antarctic field seasons cancellations and changes, the PGC is taking this opportunity to showcase some of our users’ remote sensing based techniques and research that…