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USGS Antarctic Atlas

USGS The Atlas is intended to serve the interests and needs of a diverse community as a reference, an information framework, an education tool, and a research aid. Its primary focus is as a tool for Antarctic researchers, but others are invited to use it. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides ongoing development and maintenance of the Atlas through its Antarctic Program. The National Science Foundation provides funding, logistical support and program oversight to this project. Use Antarctic Atlas to download the DEM data, more...



USGS (U.S. Geological Survey)

USGS - Sience for a changing world, more...



NSF (National Science Foundation) Polar Program

NSF The Office of Polar Programs (OPP) manages and initiates National Science Foundation funding for basic research and its operational support in the Arctic and the Antarctic. The funds are provided as NSF grants to institutions (mainly U.S. universities), whose scientists perform the research at the institutions or in a polar region, and as cooperative agreements or contracts to support organizations including contractors and the U.S. military, more...



NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ATM group

NASA The Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) is a scanning LIDAR developed and used by NASA for observing the Earth's topography for several scientific applications, foremost of which is the measurement of changing arctic and antarctic icecaps and glaciers. It typically flies on aircraft at an altitude between 400 and 800 meters above ground level, and measures topography to an accuracy of ten to twenty centimeters by incorporating measurements from GPS (global positioning system) receivers and inertial navigation system (INS) attitude sensors, more...



ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite)

ICESat ICESat is the benchmark Earth Observing System mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics. The ICESat mission will provide multi-year elevation data needed to determine ice sheet mass balance as well as cloud property information, especially for stratospheric clouds common over polar areas. It will also provide topography and vegetation data around the globe, in addition to the polar-specific coverage over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, more...





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