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EarthCODE

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Polar TEP has been chosen by ESA to be part of their EarthCODE project. ESA’s EarthCODE is a dynamic Collaborative Open Development Environment created to transform Earth System Science by embedding FAIR and Open Science Principles into the scientific development process. By providing tools, expertise, and opportunities, EarthCODE enables science… Continue reading

Cerulean Information Factory

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The ESA Green Transition Information Factories (GTIF) allow users to interactively discover the underlying opportunities and complexities of transitioning to carbon neutrality by 2050 using the power of Earth Observation, cloud-computing and cutting edge analytics. As part of the GTIF Kickstarters, Polar View, in collaboration with EOX, the National Research… Continue reading

Foundation Models for Earth Observation

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Polar View is supporting the Norwegian Computing Center in their project for ESA to develop, train, and implement a multi-modal foundation model (FM) and use the FM as the basis for the development and implementation of six different use-cases.  Polar View is providing the iceberg detection use case. Foundation models… Continue reading

OGC Open Science Persistent Demonstrator

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Polar TEP has been selected as one of the platforms for the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Open Science Persistent Demonstrator (OSPD) project. OPSD is a long-term inter-agency initiative aiming to enable and communicate reproducible Earth Science across global communities of users and amplify inter-agency Earth Observation mission data, tools, and infrastructures.… Continue reading

Polar TEP Education Module

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An eScience Lab Template has been created for a Jupyter Notebook-based teaching tutorial using Polar TEP. The course template in an implemented in an example Jupyter Notebook that uses XCube to generate NDVI. The Jupyter Notebook example has now been used as the foundation for two university courses and more… Continue reading

4D Viewer

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In collababoration with Earthwave, Polar TEP users now have access to state-of-the-art 4D visualization capabilities. The 4D Viewer is based on that developed for the Digital Twin Antarctica precursor initiative and has been enhanced to support data created within Polar TEP. Continue reading

CryoSat-2 Data

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Polar TEP users can now access the CryoSat-2 CryoTEMPO-EOLIS point and gridded products in Jupyter Notebooks.  At present this consists of point product and gridded product of Svalbard for the lifetime of CryoSat-2 (i.e., 2010 -> present).  In the coming year, this will be expanded to Greenland, Antarctica, Iceland, Central… Continue reading