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ArcticDEM Project Has Now Mapped More Than 65 Percent of The Arctic

ArcticDEM Release 5 represents the largest release of elevation data to date, more than doubling the number of available strip DEMs, mosaic tiles and geographic coverage area of all releases

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OGC Invites You to the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Demonstration

23 February 2017: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites members and the public to attend the OGC Arctic Spatial Data Pilot demonstration online or in-person on the 15th March 2017

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NGA Releases Biggest Collection of Arctic Elevation Data Yet at Esri FedGIS Conference

ArcticDEM Provides High-Quality Elevation Data and Enables Communities to Take Action Redlands, California—Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, together with the ArcticDEM project—a public-private initiative to produce high-resolution, high-quality

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Esri Releases New Arctic Elevation Data

ArcticDEM Provides New Insight into Effects of Climate Change and Enables Communities to Take Early Action Redlands, California—Global smart-mapping leader Esri and the ArcticDEM project, a public-private initiative to produce

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Federal Agency for Geodesy and Cartography Commissioned New Project to Compile New Arctic Atlas

The Federal Agency for Geodesy and Cartography commissioned a project to compile and publish a national atlas of the Russian Arctic, according to a RIA Novosti report. The entire project was estimated at 80 million

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OGC Requests Information to Guide Arctic Spatial Data Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests information to help advance the “Arctic Spatial Data Pilot”. The Arctic Spatial Data Pilot is an OGC Interoperability Program initiative sponsored by the U.S.

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OGC Announces New Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Project

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a new OGC Interoperability Program project called the “Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Standards and Communication Pilot” (Arctic SDI Pilot). The Arctic SDI Pilot is

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Arctic Tundra Fire Causes Widespread Permafrost Landscape Changes

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Large and severe tundra fires cause top down permafrost thaw, playing a major role in altering Arctic landscapes according to a new study led by the U.S.

Remote Sensing

Satellites Catch Austfonna Rapid Ice Loss

Rapid ice loss in a remote Arctic ice cap has been detected by the Sentinel-1A and CryoSat satellites. Located on Norway’s Nordaustlandet island in the Svalbard archipelago, parts of the

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Bears from Space: Scientists Try to Count Polar Bears Using Satellite Imagery

They look like tiny white specks on a mottled grey background. They’re polar bears seen from space — using the newest tool in the kit for scientists to monitor Canada’s