September 7, 2011 Recent satellite photos from the European Space Agency show huge icebergs were created when the Japanese tsunami hit West Antarctica’s Sulzberger Ice Shelf. This caused 125 square kilometres of ice to break off – or calve – from a shelf front that has remained stable for the… Continue reading
January 28, 2011 For the first time, Barcelona World Race officials are utilizing sophisticated satellite data, reconstructed and analyzed by a team of experts at C-CORE, to monitor iceberg activity in the Southern Ocean. Continue reading
September 20, 2010 A senior project engineer with C-CORE, a Newfoundland, Canada based research firm and Polar View team member, is actively involved in tracking an ice island – the largest of its kind in the northern hemisphere since 1962 – originally calved from the Petermann glacier in Greenland. Continue reading
September 13, 2010 For the 2010-2011 winter season, Polar View proudly launches an enhanced and consolidated Snow Monitoring service that combines and streamlines the various products of our service partners, and offers geographical coverage of the complete pan-European service area. Continue reading
September 1, 2010 The recently re-launched Polar View Antarctic Node website, coordinated by the British Antarctic Survey, won the prestigious 2010 British Cartographic Society Avenza Award for excellence in electronic mapping. Continue reading
April 30, 2010 Polar View in the Antarctic region recently launched an enhanced interpreted ice chart service. This service compiles data from a variety of different sources to provide ice charts at a much higher resolution that are updated more frequently than those previously available. Continue reading
February 8, 2010 Polar View sea ice service in the Antarctic, coordinated by the British Antarctic Survey, has greatly improved the service for the 2009/2010 Antarctic season. A combination of easier access through the new website and a significant increase in the number of images available means more real time… Continue reading
