Ice thickness


Spatial Analysis

With the new CryoSatApp, elevation profiles are at your fingertips. Users can select the day and orbit from which they want to extract the data, and view Earth’s ice profile from that orbit. Credits: ACS/ESAWith the new CryoSatApp, elevation profiles are at your fingertips. Users can select the day and orbit from which they want to extract the data, and view Earth’s ice profile from that orbit. Credits: ACS/ESA

Ice Mapping App

Spatial Analysis

The European Space Agency has released a new iOS app for accessing ice data from the ESA’s CryoSat mission.  Cryosat-2 was launched in April of last year to collect data to further understanding of the relationship between the world’s ice coverage and climate change.  Data collected from the satellite includes […]

GIS Data

CryoSat-2

CryoSat-2

GIS Data

CryoSat-2 is the satellite launched by the European Space Agency on April 8, 2010 to collect data in order to understand the relationship between the world’s ice layers and climate change.  The satellite collects data about ice thickness over both land and water to analyze the changes in polar ice […]

GIS Learning

GIS News: Greenland Ice Thickness, OpenDataPhilly now Open Source

GIS News: Greenland Ice Thickness, OpenDataPhilly now Open Source

GIS Learning

The latest GIS industry news roundup includes an image of Greenland’s ice sheet from ESA’s Image of the Week series, Azavea has released the code of the OpenDataPhilly.org project which is now available as open source software, and the OGC has completed its Special Activity Airspace (SAA) Dissemination Pilot.  Digital Map Products, Cityworks, eSpatial, […]