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…
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…
Quantarctica Version 3 Released! What is Quantarctica? Quantarctica is a collection of Antarctic geographical datasets which works with the free, open-source software QGIS. It currently includes geography, glaciology and geophysics data, and will expand with contributions from the research community….
Be sure to check out QGreenland, a new free GIS package of amazing datasets including PGC’s ArcticDEM. Find a press release with more info here, and grab the download at qgreenland.org…
The PGC is excited to share with our partners from the Great Lake Alliance for Remote Sensing (GLARS) and SharedGeo the public release of high-resolution digital surface models (DSMs) across the Great Lakes Basin. Now available for use by researchers,…
Call for Nominations The Polar Geospatial Center is seeking nominations for their Science and Operations Advisory Committee (SOAC). PGC is recruiting members to represent 3 communities: 1) NSF Facilities, 2) Polar Operations/Logistics, and 3) NSF-funded Polar science. Candidates can be…
Let’s Connect! The Polar Geospatial Center is launching a PGC user community Slack! This is a shared space for community members to connect with one another. Join and connect with the community here: JOIN SLACK Feel free to create channels…