Date

  1. New Data Available
    ArcticDEM Data Release

  2. Resource Available
    Arctic Research Mapping Application

  1. New Data Available
    ArcticDEM Data Release

The ArcticDEM team announces a release of new data. This release
includes data for the Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Nunavut,
the Faroe Islands, and northern and western regions of Greenland. Data
for other regions in the Arctic will continue to be released on a
quarterly basis.

ArcticDEM is a National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) and
National Science Foundation (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 degrees latitude including all of
Greenland, the state of Alaska, and the Kamchatka Peninsula of the
Russian Federation.

The ArcticDEM project was created in response to the need for high
quality elevation data in remote locations, the availability of
technology to process big data, and the need for accurate measurement of
topographic change.

Producers of ArcticDEM intend for the final product to be a collection
of time-dependent elevation models and the infrastructure to process the
flow of imagery from the expanding collection of satellites producing an
increasing volume of high-quality data.

For more information about ArcticDEM and to download data, go to:
https://www.pgc.umn.edu/data/arcticdem/

For questions, contact:
Polar Geospatial Center
Email: pgc [at] umn.edu

  1. Resource Available
    Arctic Research Mapping Application

Creators announce the release of an updated version for the Arctic
Research Mapping Application (ARMAP). ARMAP encompasses scientific
research projects across the Arctic, funded or coordinated by multiple
agencies and organizations. The majority of projects shown in the ARMAP
Viewer are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of
Polar Programs, Arctic Sciences Section. Also included are research
projects funded by seventeen other U.S. federal and state entities, such
as the National Park Service, NOAA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and
those projects associated with the Interagency Arctic Research Policy
Committee (IARPC).

These projects span multiple research disciplines including Arctic
ecology, hydrology, oceanography, the cryosphere, human dimensions, and
more. Not included are modeling projects that do not require field
research. The projects may go back decades or may be currently active.
Each location is typically mapped to a nearby base of logistical
support. Each project may have multiple field locations.

ARMAP allows users to:

  • View information about U.S.-funded Arctic research;
  • Browse project locations on a circumarctic basemap with links to more
    information;
  • Search and filter by discipline, funding agency, program, project
    title, investigator name, region, year, and more;
  • View related map layers such as ship tracks, research observatories,
    and medical facilities; and
  • Use the ARMAP Viewer for science planning, logistics coordination,
    collaboration, and more.

ARMAP works to link projects with data and focuses information with the
web map application, various science layers, text search tool, summary
animation, hierarchical International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) metadata, and interoperable web services. The new Viewer is based
on HTML5 and JavaScript for improved search and filter functions. A
companion application, the Arctic Observing Viewer, encompasses over
13,000 specific monitoring sites with links to data.

For more information and to access ARMAP, go to: http://armap.org/.

For questions, contact:
William Manley
Email: william.manley [at] colorado.edu

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