Making Antarctic Maps and Figures with Quantarctica PDF
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Making Antarctic Maps and Figures with Quantarctica George Roth, Kenny Matsuoka, Anders Skoglund, Yngve Melvær, and Stein Tronstad Norwegian Polar Institute APECS Webinar – 7 June 2017 About Me • B.S. Oceanography, University of Washington • M.S. Geological Sciences, University of Oregon • Geospatial Support Specialist, Polar Geospatial Center • Quantarctica Project Coordinator, NPI • 9(?!) years GIS experience http://quantarctica.npolar.no [email protected] Quantarctica A Cross-Platform, Full-Featured, Free GIS for Antarctic Research Original data quality Peer-reviewed datasets Import and analyze your own data Field-tested: runs entirely offline Production-quality map and figure design tools Free and open publication and redistribution Metadata and citation information included Hand-crafted, colorblind-friendly layer styles Consistentgeographic projection (Antarctic Polar Stereographic) Open data formats Active development and user support Educational Materials and Workshops User-driven data contributions and suggestions Quantarctica Users (the ones we can easily find!) from: • 232 unique mailing list subscribers • Over 25 peer-reviewed articles since v1 (2013) • Over 100 User Workshop participants Quantarctica v3 under development now – Contact us for information and feedback! http://quantarctica.npolar.no [email protected] The Quantarctica Team Editorial Board Theme Institution Country Catherine Ritz Glaciology Université Grenoble Alpes France Anne Le Brocq Glaciology University of Exeter UK Indiana University Purdue University Kathy Licht Geology US Indianapolis Takeshi Tamura Sea Ice National Institute of Polar Research Japan Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Anton van de Putte Biological Oceanography Belgium Kenny Matsuoka Science Peter Neff Ice Core Paleoclimate University of Rochester US PI/Co-Founder Michiel van den Broeke Atmospheric Science Universiteit Utrecht Netherlands Chief Editor Cole Kelleher Logistics University of Minnesota US History and Social Jean de Pomereu France Sciences History and Social Bryan Lintott Scott Polar Research Institute UK Sciences Mirko Scheinert Geophysics Technische Universität Dresden Germany Huw Griffiths Biological Oceanography British Antarctic Survey UK Environmental Fraser Morgan Landcare Research NZ Anders Skoglund Management Cartographer/Co-Founder George Roth Project Coordinator http://quantarctica.npolar.no [email protected] Webinar Goals In the next 60 minutes, we’ll use a case study approach to learn how to… 1. Navigate Quantarctica’s data package in QGIS 2. Import and convert between different scientific data formats 3. Analyze and manipulate scientific and basemap data 4. Use cartographic design principles 5. Create a production-quality map or figure Technical Notes • A current version of QGIS (2.18.x) installed and running on a stable computing environment • Already downloaded and extracted the full Quantarctica data package (7GB) • The workshop_data.zip [http://tinyurl.com/qaegu17data, package downloaded and extracted to the 5.4MB ZIP] Quantarctica project folder Q/GIS Useful Links • QGIS Documentation: http://qgis.org/en/docs/index.html • StackExchange GIS: http://gis.stackexchange.com/ • QGIS Tutorials and Tips: http://www.qgistutorials.com/en/index.html QGIS Interface Toolbar A d d Layer Styling d a t a Layers Map Pane Processing Toolbox Panel Any other Panels! P l u g i n s Status Bar What’s inQuantarctica? Complete datasets, stored on your hard drive, at full quality and in open data formats, with no internet access required after installation. Copy, modify, redistribute, and mash it up with your own scientific data –every dataset is open access, and full citation information and metadata is always included. • Continent-wide satellite imagery • Antarctic and sub-Antarctic coastlines and (Landsat, MODIS, RADARSAT) outlines for exposed rock, ice shelf, and subglacial lakes • Digital elevation models and/or contour lines of bed and ice-surface topography and • Magnetic and gravity anomalies seafloor bathymetry • Ice flow velocities, catchment areas, mass • Locations of all Antarctic research stations balance, and firn thickness grids and every named location in Antarctica (SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica) Basemap Topography Satellite Imagery Glaciology Geophysics http://quantarctica.npolar.no Full dataset list: [email protected] http://quantarctica.npolar.no/downloads/ The Final Product The Map/Figure will… • Show imported and converted data • Use Basemap data from the Quantarctica data package • Use at least one scientific dataset from the Quantarctica data package • Be a functional, good-looking map that you hopefully feel proud of!
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