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Open Polar Server (Ops)—An Open Source Infrastructure For The Cryosphere Community, Weibo Liu, Kyle Purdon, Trey Stafford, John Paden, Xingong Li
Open Polar Server (Ops)—An Open Source Infrastructure For The Cryosphere Community, Weibo Liu, Kyle Purdon, Trey Stafford, John Paden, Xingong Li
Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies: Publications
The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas has collected approximately 1000 terabytes (TB) of radar depth sounding data over the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets since 1993 in an effort to map the thickness of the ice sheets and ultimately understand the impacts of climate change and sea level rise. In addition to data collection, the storage, management, and public distribution of the dataset are also primary roles of the CReSIS. The Open Polar Server (OPS) project developed a free and open source infrastructure to store, manage, analyze, and distribute the data collected …