The Polar Geospatial Information Center: Joint Support

极地地理空间信息中心：联合支持

• 批准号: 1043681
• 负责人: Paul Morin
• 金额: $ 448.54万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-02-15 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1043681&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Polar; Geospatial; Information; Center; Joint

Intellectual Merit: The PI proposes to extend existing activities of the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center (AGIC) to also include Arctic activities. The Polar Geospatial Information Center (PGIC) will provide geospatial support for science and operational activities at both poles while also providing access to new data sources. AGIC has an existing infrastructure, experienced staff, and a working relationship with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) that can be efficiently expanded to support the U.S. Arctic Research Program. PGIC will provide three important functions for the polar science and operations communities: access to sub-meter, high-resolution satellite imagery for the Antarctic and Arctic for funded research proposals as well as logistics support; expertise to process, analyze, and create products from this imagery and other geospatial data; and development of short courses to teach geospatial techniques and use of visualization software. The foundation to support Arctic and Antarctic activities will be a mosaic of sub-meter resolution satellite images: High-Resolution Commercial Imagery Collection of the Poles (HIPOLE). While maps and geospatial data exist for much of the Arctic and Antarctic, use of these GIS data is often hindered by a lack of experience with necessary tools or datasets. PGIC would address this issue by providing GIS and remote sensing methodology workshops and guidance to U.S. polar researchers, along with expertise and access to unique datasets. Broader impacts: This activity will support a broad segment of the polar community with a high-resolution geospatial data, will provide expertise to aid in its analysis, will train researchers in its use and, will disseminate the geospatial products of researchers.

智力优势：PI建议扩大南极地理空间信息中心的现有活动，将北极活动也包括在内。极地地理空间信息中心（PGIC）将为两极的科学和业务活动提供地理空间支持，同时还提供对新数据源的访问。AGIC拥有现有的基础设施，经验丰富的工作人员以及与国家地理空间情报局（NGA）的工作关系，可以有效地扩展以支持美国北极研究计划。PGIC将为极地科学和运营社区提供三项重要功能：获得南极和北极的亚米级高分辨率卫星图像，用于资助研究提案以及后勤支持;处理，分析和创建来自此图像和其他地理空间数据的产品的专业知识;以及开发短期课程，教授地理空间技术和可视化软件的使用。支持北极和南极活动的基础将是亚米分辨率卫星图像的镶嵌：极地高分辨率商业图像集（HIPOLE）。虽然北极和南极大部分地区都有地图和地理空间数据，但由于缺乏必要的工具或数据集方面的经验，这些地理信息系统数据的使用往往受到阻碍。PGIC将通过为美国极地研究人员提供GIS和遥感方法研讨会和指导，沿着专业知识和独特数据集的访问来解决这个问题。更广泛的影响：这项活动将向极地社区的广大群体提供高分辨率地理空间数据，提供专门知识以协助分析，培训研究人员使用这些数据，并传播研究人员的地理空间产品。