The PGC team is excited to share the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was granted a year extension for the production of global topography, supported by $11.1 million in funding from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency…
Revolutionizing Arctic Topography Mapping: ArcticDEM Mosaic Release 2023 [Twin Cities, 08/17/2023] – The Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) at the University of Minnesota is proud to present ArcticDEM Mosaic version 4.1, a culmination of rigorous efforts to elevate the quality, precision,…
Detailed workflow for searching for pre-produced DEMs and requesting them from the PGC….
More Polar DEMs Released We’re so excited to announce our latest releases of high resolution elevation data for polar regions, adding four more years of data, which has been added to eight years from previous releases. The repeat observations spanning…
PGC News & Announcements: March 15, 2019 Missed out on the newsletter via email? Sign up here! Claire Porter Wins NOAA David Johnson Award The PGC is proud to announce Claire Porter is the recipient of the NOAA David Johnson…
Missed out on the newsletter via email? Sign up here! NEW! ArcticDEM Viewer in Google Earth Engine Apps Excitingly, the ArcticDEM data has been built into a Google Earth Engine App. The apps are dynamic, shareable user interfaces for Earth…
First of yearly releases for 2022-2032 We’re excited to announce our first annual release of polar high resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data strips. This release includes strip DEMs from the calendar year of 2022. Our DEM strip products are…
What I Do I develop front and back end systems to facilitate the processing, delivery, and storage of PGC products for research and community interest. Education BA Computer Science, University of Minnesota Morris, 2004 Interests I enjoy spending my time…