Pole Dancers | Icy Polar Opposites
Waterloo, ON
The Challenge | Icy Polar Opposites
Design a data analysis and/or visualization tool to show the spatial and temporal changes in Arctic and Antarctic ice to a general audience.
ArcCake
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ArcCake helps visualize NASA polar science data
ArcCake Goals:
- A back end for analysing & correlating remote sensing data
- An interactive world map showing where data is available
- A 3D visualisation showing ice, snow and terrain
Demo visualization can be found at:
https://ponderousmad.com/arcake/index.html
Resources:
ICE Bridge Data:
- Digital Elevation Maps
- Aerial photographs
- Radar ice & snow depth
Development Technologies
- Google Maps API
- HTML/Canvas/WebGL
- Python
- Creative commons images and textures from http://texturelib.com/
SpaceApps is a NASA incubator innovation program.