[CRYOLIST] ArcticDEM Release 6: Everything - it's all there.

Latest News from ArcticDEM View this email in your browser Everything - it's all there. Sixth release completes the outstanding geographic regions of the ArcticDEM production domain: the Russian Far Eastern Federal Districts, European Russia, and Scandinavia north of 60° latitude The ArcticDEM team is proud to announce high resolution terrain data is now available for 97.4% of the Arctic - an additional 32% from past releases. Release 6 adds 21,751 2m strip DEM components at 2m resolution to the ArcticDEM inventory, with an additional 2,875 mosaic tiles at 5m resolution. This brings the total number of available 2m DEMs to 74,929 – covering over 70.5 million square kilometers – and the total number of 5m mosiac tiles to 2,462, covering nearly the entire Arctic. Stay tuned for the final release of ArcticDEM in mid 2018! This next release will focus on hole-filling of previous releases, and will update all ArcticDEM data with the improved filtering methodology that was used for Release 6. 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 Yakutsk on the Lena River, Siberia Aldan River Drainage, Siberia   Release History Sep. 6, 2017 (Current):  Release 6 [v3.0: Far Eastern Federal Districts, European (Russia), and Scandinavia (north of 60° latitude)] Jun. 2, 2017:  Release 5 [v2.0: Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Nunavut (Canada), Northern Siberia (Russia), and central and southeastern regions of Greenland] Feb. 13, 2017:  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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