Polar View is an international consortium providing a wide variety of earth observation products that monitor the Polar Regions and mid-latitude areas affected by ice and snow. The Polar View team includes government agencies, research institutes, system developers, service providers, and end users from 17 countries. Further information is available at www.polarview.org.

Polar View – developed in the Antarctic by an international consortium of sea ice experts – provides a near-real-time sea ice information service for ship operators. The service helps them minimise delays, improve efficiency, and take action to avoid life-threatening safety hazards, damage to vessels and potentially severe consequences for the environment.

It is widely used by commercial and tourist shipping, and by national polar research programmes, fisheries vessels and regional rescue coordination centres.