Less than one year after President Barack Obama announced a White House Arctic Initiative that included better mapping of the area, a team of researchers has released the first-ever publicly available ...
The new site gives users a sense of the Arctic's topography, sans the sub-zero temperatures. (Noel Bauza via Pixabay) A new portal lets users experience the staggering landscape of the Arctic — ...
REDLANDS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global smart-mapping leader Esri and the ArcticDEM project, a public-private initiative to produce high-resolution, high-quality digital elevation models (DEM) of ...
A trip to the Arctic, while difficult, certainly isn't as challenging as a trip to the moon or Mars. Yet the moon and Mars have awesome maps that took decades and billions of dollars in research ...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is teaming up with university researchers to create digital elevation models of the earth's terrain. (Satellite image ©2018 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company.) ...
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) cuts a channel through the multi-year pack ice and snow as Healy transits the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole, September 27, 2022. This is the third time the ...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Science Foundation publicly released new 3-D topographic maps of Alaska Sept. 1 in support of a White House Arctic initiative to inform ...
For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has produced unprecedented three-dimensional views of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ...
On a clear day, the payoff is prodigious from atop either of two peaks accessible courtesy of a relatively simple and only moderately taxing hike up Arctic Valley. The view from atop Mount Gordon Lyon ...