nrmt seminar: an embarrassment of riches: we now have better topography for the ice on earth than the land
an embarrassment of riches: we now have better topography for the ice on earth than the land
11:30-12:30 in at 5036/vc to oa 2005 (orillia)
paul morin
director, polar geospatial center
university of minnesota, st. paul
paul morin leads a team of two dozen responsible for imaging, mapping and monitoring the earth’s polar regions for the national science foundation’s division of polar programs. one of his current projects is arcticdem, a white house initiative to produce a high-resolution, time-dependent elevation model of the arctic using blue waters. learn how a diverse collaboration of us science and intelligence agencies, universities and a geospatial software company have produced data have an accuracy of 30 cm and repeat coverage of 90% of the poles on average 10 times over 6 years.
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