Team
British Antarctic Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council. Based in Cambridge UK, it has, for almost 60 years, undertaken the majority of Britain's scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent. It now shares that continent with scientists from around thirty countries.
BAS employs over 400 staff, and supports three stations in the Antarctic, at Rothera, Halley and Signy, and two stations on South Georgia, at King Edward Point and Bird Island. The Antarctic operations and science programmes are executed and managed from Cambridge, and rely on a wide-ranging team of professional staff.
Bremen University
The University of Bremen is the science center of North West Germany. The university has over 1,400 research scientists, employs a staff of 910, and has 19,000 students. The Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), part of the physics department, is investigating the system "earth" using the tools of physics. Research at IUP is organized into four sub-groups: remote sensing, atmospheric physics and chemistry, oceanography, and terrestrial environmental physics.
C-CORE
C-CORE is a global research and development corporation providing innovative engineering solutions to clients in the natural resource sectors. C-CORE develops and applies advanced technologies to address production and market issues faced by natural resource sectors such as oil and gas, pipeline, mining, pulp and paper, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture. With a team of more than 50 research engineers, C-CORE plays an important role in developing highly qualified, entrepreneurial people to support the advancement of these sectors. Although Canada is a major focus, C-CORE continues to increase their operations in the United States, Europe, Asia, and offshore Russia.
DTU - Technical University of Denmark
Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is a self-governing university that covers most engineering disciplines and educates engineers at the Bachelor, Master and PhD levels. The University has approximately 900 researchers, 6,000 students, 600 PhD students and 400 international students a year in English-language programmes. With activities in, among other areas, biotechnology, communications technology and nanotechnology, DTU has a high international standard within the technical-natural sciences, based on 15 individual departments as well as a number of research centres on campus in Lyngby, north of Copenhagen.
DTU's mission is to contribute to value creation in society on a sustainable foundation: through collaboration on R&D activities with private enterprises; through applications for patents and establishment of new enterprises and through the University's education of Master's students and young, new researchers.
eOsphere
eOsphere, formerly Vexcel UK, was established in 2001 and supports complete systems; ranging from ground station technology and data links, to World leading expertise in satellite image analysis. Activities include the development and provision of near real time SAR-derived sea ice products for national ice services.
eOsphere has specialised in sea ice monitoring since it was established. eOsphere can provide a complete offshore ice information service; including data planning and acquisition from satellites and ancillary sources, the provision of analysis systems (software and hardware) to support offshore environmental monitoring, sea-ice analysis and ice forecasting, quality control and management and coordination.
ISAC-CNR
The Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) is a national institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) whose headquarters are located in Bologna, Italy. Over 200 staff members, researchers, and students are organized into four divisions and focus on understanding atmospheric processes and climate.
The Institute was established to carry on activities of research, promotion and technology transfer in the following disciplines: Meteorology and its applications, Climate change and predictability, Atmospheric structure and composition, and Observations of the planet Earth.
NASA MODIS Rapid Response Project
Since 2001, NASA’s MODIS Rapid Response Project has been providing fire detections and imagery in near real time for a wide variety of application and scientific users. The project web site provides MODIS imagery within a few hours of data acquisition. A wide range of user communities access this information to get a rapid, 250 meter-resolution overview of ground conditions.
The project generates complete mosaic images of Antarctica and the Arctic every day, as long as enough visible light is available. Images are generated from both the Terra and Aqua satellites at multiple resolutions from 4km to 250m.
Polarview in the Antarctic uses selected MODIS mosaics as additional layers in its image browser window.
Collaborators
AGIC - Antarctic Geospatial Information Center
Founded in 2007, the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center (AGIC) based at the University of Minnesota is a National Science Foundation-sponsored organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) by providing geospatial information to Antarctic science, operations, and education communities.
AGIC has been instrumental in providing input to the design of the Polar View Antarctic service, establishing links with NASA and integrating Polar View services into the USAP shipping operations in the Ross Sea