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  • Esri Boundaries and Places

    Tiled, Boundaries and Places layer with country, state/province, and county or equivalent boundaries and placenames from Esri.

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  • 0.5m High-Mountain Asia Imagery Mosaic (panchromatic)

    High-resolution commercial imagery from the WorldView-1, WorldView-2, Worldview-3, QuickBird-2, and GeoEye-1 satellites © Maxar, Inc. provided under license to federally-funded researchers by the Polar Geospatial Center. Click on an image to view image information. You must be logged in to see this layer.

  • 15m High Mountain Asia Landsat 8 Mosaic (RGB)

    True-color 15m pansharpened Landsat 8 imagery mosaic for High Mountain Asia. This layer is a pixel-based mosaic to minimize cloud and snow cover.

  • Esri World Imagery

    Tiled, high-resolution World Imagery basemap from Esri.

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      Welcome to the PGC World Imagery Viewer!

      Please log in using the username/password provided by the Polar Geospatial Center. Access to this application and viewing the high-resolution imagery mosaics are granted under licensing terms provided by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

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      You must have an account with the Polar Geospatial Center in order to view the commercial high-resolution satellite imagery. If you would like an account please visit the Request New Acccount page. Certain restrictions apply, view the Terms & Conditions for more information.
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      Although the application is optimized to serve terabytes of satellite imagery via the internet, slow internet connections can cause images have some latency.
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      Click anywhere on the map or image and a popup will display with information on the image including Maxar Catalog ID, sensor, and date.
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      Credits

      Development
      • Developed by Brad Herried
      • 2018 Polar Geospatial Center, University of Minnesota
      Imagery Processing
      • Satellite imagery processing by Claire Porter, Steve Foga, and Brad Herried
      • Polar Geospatial Center, University of Minnesota
      Map Data
      • WorldView-1, WorldView-2, WorldView-3, QuickBird, IKONOS imagery © Maxar, Inc.
      • World Imagery and Boundaries and Places from Esri. See Terms & Conditions.
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