…and dependent care flexible spending accounts University HSA contributions Disability and employer-paid life insurance Employee wellbeing program Excellent retirement plans with employer contribution Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) opportunity Financial counseling services Employee Assistance Program with eight sessions of counseling…
Logan Earth – enhancing Google Earth with ArcticDEM for the NWT
…links below. Google Earth (above) vs. Logan Earth (below) comparison of a permafrost slump on the Peel Plateau in NWT helpful links: Cabin Radio Press Release: https://cabinradio.ca/88612/news/environment/yellowknife-man-creates-alternative-to-google-earth-for-northerners/ Logan Earth Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LoganEarth Logan Earth App: https://northernmademaps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html?id=c01df3f8136e4c718a1bfe8377951352 PGC’s Arctic DEM Webpage: https://www.pgc.umn.edu/data/arcticdem/…
…Kelleher works with polar scientists, and coolest of all, has teamed up with Google to provide street views of McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Podcast Length: 31:02 https://www.pgc.umn.edu/files/2018/07/time-to-eat-dogs-podcast-kelleher.mp3 If the audio fails to load, you can listen to the original podcast…
PGC maintains a list of external (non-PGC) polar elevation data resources….
…mapping application. PGC’s Antarctic, Arctic and World imagery viewers provide quick access to hundreds of terabytes of orthorectified satellite imagery, mostly of WorldView-1, -2 and -3 sensors. More information about our viewers can be found on our website. Here are…
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…Cryosphere journal last month! 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 to develop high-resolution continental-wide elevation mapping is a powerful…
…of alignment The time-dependent nature of the strip DEM files allows users to perform change detection analysis and to compare observations of topography data acquired in different seasons or years. The mosaic DEM tiles are assembled from multiple strip DEMs…
Position Available: Education and Outreach Coordinator (July 2017) – Filled!
…General public speaking and promotion of PGC services How To Apply Applications must be submitted online through the University of Minnesota. Please follow the instructions provided on the site. APPLY NOW! Current University of Minnesota employees, use this link instead….
…retrogressive thaw slumps, snowdrifts, and vegetation heights” in the Science of Remote Sensing journal. The article explores the utility of ArcticDEM, PGC’s publicly available dataset containing time-dependent digital elevation models (DEMs) of the Arctic region. The study showcases ArcticDEM’s versatility…