[CRYOLIST] Fwd: [Test] ArcticDEM Release 4: Updates and New Regions

Latest News from ArcticDEM View this email in your browser ArcticDEM: Updates and New Regions Fourth release adds North and West Greenland, Victoria Island Region, and Kamchatka The ArcticDEM team is pleased to announce the release of 9,884 2m posting time-dependent DEMs and 979 additional mosaics at 5m resolution. This brings the total number of available 2m DEMs to 20,009 – 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 ArcticDEM.org to connect to the ArcticDEM Explorer or to download bulk data.   View ArcticDEM Explorer Overview ArcticDEM is an NGA-NSF public-private initiative to produce a high-resolution, high quality, digital surface model (DSM) of the Arctic using optical stereo imagery, high-performance computing, and open source photogrammetry software. Upon completion, ArcticDEM will encompass all land area north of 60° north latitude including all of Greenland, the State of Alaska, and the Kamchatka Peninsula of the Russian Federation. The project data releases began with Alaska on September 1, 2016, and will continue to other regions in the Arctic on a quarterly basis.   Gallery Thule Air Force Base, Greenland View in ArcticDEM Explorer Steffansson Island, Nunavut View in ArcticDEM Explorer Gorely Volcano, Kamchatka View in ArcticDEM Explorer Upernavik, Greenland View in ArcticDEM Explorer Release History Feb. 13, 2016: Release 4 [v2.0: Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia), Canadian archipelago Islands within Nunavut and the Northwest Territories (Canada), Faroe Islands, and northern and western regions of Greenland] Dec. 12, 2016: Release 3 [v2.0 of: Alaska, Novaya Zemlya (Russia), Franz Josef Land (Russia), Baffin Island (Canada), Svalbard, (Norway), and Iceland] Sept. 29, 2016: Release 2 [v1.0 of: Novaya Zemlya (Russia) and Franz Josef Land (Russia)] Sept. 1, 2016: Alaska 1.0 Stay Updated Click here to subscribe to occasional ArcticDEM updates via email. Copyright © 2017 Polar Geospatial Center, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up on the PGC website, are currently a consumer of PGC services, or have registered for a user account with the PGC. Our mailing address is: Polar Geospatial Center 1954 Buford Ave R280 Learning & Environmental Sciences Building Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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Paul

Paul Morin
Director
Antarctic Geospatial Information Center
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Minnesota
lpaul@umn.edu
612-978-2964