EARTH OBSERVATION FOR POLAR
MONITORING A Unique View of the Environment,
the Economy, and Safety
Since 2005, the Polar View consortium has been providing a wide
variety of earth observation products which monitor sea ice cover,
glacier runoff, snow cover, snow melt, icebergs, river ice and
lake ice. Products are delivered in a timely manner to meet the
specific needs of its growing number of diverse end users.
Polar
View's sea ice monitoring and forecasting service includes a variety
of specific technical products that meet user information requirements
regarding timely data on sea ice and other met-ocean conditions
essential for all types of marine operation in Polar Regions.
Polar
View's iceberg monitoring service supports safe shipping and offshore
operations by providing near real-time detection of icebergs based
on satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery.
Polar
View's river ice monitoring service delivers EO-derived information
about the location and extent of riverine ice covers to decision
makers in near real-time.
Polar
View's lake ice monitoring service delivers EO-derived information
about the location and extent of ice covers to decision makers
in near real-time.
Polar
View snow monitoring service provides daily mapping of the Fractional
Snow Cover (FSC) for Scandinavia, the Baltic Sea Area, and the
Snow Covered Area (SCA) of Central Europe and the Alps.
