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Thomas Juntunen, Geospatial Developer at the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC), passed away on Wednesday, Aug 26th. Thomas began working for PGC when he was a graduate student in the University’s Masters of Geographic Information Science program and stayed on as…
NGA Director, Robert Sharp, Praises PGC Partnership and High-Res DEMs at GEOINT 2019 [video]
At the GEOINT Symposium this year, Vice Admiral Robert Sharp, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) gave praising remarks about the PGC (read his speech remarks here). He highlighted examples of great partnerships in action and having impact, one…
The REMA team is proud to announce its publication in The Cryosphere journal! The article covers REMA’s construction including source imagery and DEM processing, registering and mosaicking, as well as comparisons to lidar altimetry. The state-of-the-art techniques REMA has employed…
Hyperion Research (the former IDC HPC team) announced the newest recipients of the HPC (high performance computing) Innovation Excellence Award at ISC High Performance 2017, the major supercomputing conference being held June 18-22, in Frankfurt, Germany. PGC’s ArcticDEM project…
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…
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…
We’ve put together a short video showcasing the projects that Melisa Larsen, our Greenlandic student intern, was working on during her time at PGC in 2014-15. Among other projects, Melisa focused on delineating watersheds for drinking water in dozens of…
We are impressed by the amount of interest in our Getting Started with PGC Data workshop and know how quickly the year is going, so we are extending our application deadline to January 16, 2024! This workshop is targeted for…