…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/…
…and Space Administration. ArticleS http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/ncsa_and_partners_win_hpcwire_editors_choice_award_for_earthdem_collaborati BACKGROUND ArcticDEM and REMA projects are constructed from hundreds of thousands of individual stereoscopic Digital Elevation Models (DEM) extracted from pairs of submeter resolution DigitalGlobe satellite imagery licensed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, including data…
…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. …
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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…
…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…
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…voices in Arctic research. NSF issued a Dear Colleague Letter outlining immediate, ongoing, and NSF-wide actions and efforts to support Indigenous Peoples and improve relationships with the agency. Read the full Dear Colleague Letter at https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21077/nsf21077.jsp PGC Support Vignette PGC…
Position Available: Cartographer / GIS Web Developer – Filled!
…visit our website: www.pgc.umn.edu We are located on the University of Minnesota Saint Paul campus. About the Job The Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is seeking a cartographer and web developer to join the Product…
…– covering 20 million square kilometers– and the total number of 5m mosiac tiles to 2,421. This is the largest release of data for the project to date. Explore Data ArcticDEM data are available for online browsing and download. Visit…