Acknowledgements

ESA - European Space Agency

We are grateful for financial support from the European Space Agency.

FCO - British Foreign & Commonwealth Office

We are grateful for financial support from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

ADD - Antarctic Digital Database

The Antarctic Digital database (ADD) is a compilation of medium scale topographic data for the continent of Antarctica. It is derived from a wide variety of sources, and aims to provide the best currently available data in all areas.

Polarview uses ADD coastline data for providing additional information on some image products for better orientation as well as having a reference dataset for image- and mapbrowser

MDA Geospatial Services

MDA Geospatial Services is one of the worlds leading providers of Earth observation satellite information. MDA Geospatial Services operates the satellite and ground segment for Radarsat2 and holds the worldwide distribution rights. MDA Geospatial Services has agreed to allow limited distribution of Radarsat2 imagery to support Polar View users in the Antarctic.

e-GEOS

e-GEOS offers a range of products and services in the Earth Observation and in the geo-spatial application domains. e-GEOS is the world-wide Exclusive Data Distributor for COSMO-SkyMed data and products. e-GEOS have agreed to allow limited distribution of Cosmo-SkyMed imagery to support Polar View users in the Antarctic.

Geoserver

For serving geospatial data in compliance with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, Polarview is using Geoserver.

OpenLayers

Polarview relies on OpenLayers for dynamic and browser driven mapping.

PostgreSQL

Polarview uses Postgresql as a relational database system backend

PostGIS

Polarview uses PostGIS for adding geographic support to PostgreSQL