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Arctic Space Resilience Node

European Resilience from Space (ERS) The European Resilience from Space (ERS) initiative is a strategic effort by the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Member States to strengthen their resilience, security and strategic autonomy through space-based capabilities and to address critical capability gaps jointly and rapidly. ERS-EO is the Earth… Continue reading

EarthCODE

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

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

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

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

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