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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…
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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…
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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…
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We’re expanding beyond the polar regions! Announcing EarthDEM – High resolution (2m!) time-stamped elevation data for non-polar regions. EarthDEM’s repeat observations allow unprecedented change detection while its polished mosaic models provide beautiful visualization and comprehensive coverage. Select regions of the…
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On Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, recognized the PGC for concerted efforts in understanding the impact of climate change. Our ArcticDEM and REMA data were highlighted, as well as our public-private partnerships, as examples…
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The Arctic Imagery Mosaic is updated and live! Our team of staff and students have spent hours of manual quality assessment and processing to provide newer 50 cm imagery mosaics across high priority areas before the start of the Arctic…
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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,…
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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…
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Beyond the Poles PGC aided NASA researchers in leveraging satellite imagery to produce a census of trees across the Sahara. The research was just published as the cover story for this month’s issue of Nature. PGC both supplied over 300,000…