Quantarctica：南极GIS组件¶

Quantarctica is a collection of Antarctic geographical datasets, such as base maps, satellite imagery, glaciology and geophysics data from data centres around the world, prepared for viewing in QGIS. The package is developed by the Norwegian Polar Institute, as a tool for the research community, for classrooms and for operational use in Antarctica –-- freely available for non-commercial purposes.

欢迎访问 QGIS 项目！¶

Quantarctica (QGIS + Antarctica) was first developed for in-house use at the Norwegian Polar Institute, as a tool for our glaciologists. There was a need for a low or no cost complete GIS with essential datasets –-- ready-to-use, easy-to-use, functionality rich and with offline capabilities. QGIS seemed to be a perfect choice of GIS for the collected datasets.

Quantarctica已被用于检验从大陆到本地比例的地理数据，用于在基础地图或其他科学数据集上查看科学工程数据，以及为出版物和提案准备地图。迄今为止，Quantarctica已被证明是一个很好的工具，是研究人员使用的其他软件的一个很好的替代品和补充。它为我们的研究人员在日常工作中提供了新的有利条件。

借助QGIS中的GPS跟踪功能，Quantarctica在南极冰架上导航也不错。¶

Since Quantarctica first came in use by our glaciologists three years ago, there has been many requests in the research community outside the institute to share this product, and we started to develop a public and improved version to replace the in-house version. Following Antarctic field testing, and adding new relevant datasets, Quantarctica version 1.0 was finally completed and made available for download in July 2013.

Quantarctica is to be all about community effort. With contributions we aim to expand with data from other disciplines, such as oceanography, atmospheric sciences, geology and biology, and hope and believe that this tool can be useful for the Antarctic community –-- as a complete Antarctic GIS package.

链接¶

Quantarctica website: https://www.npolar.no/quantarctica/
Norwegian Polar Institute: https://www.npolar.no/en/

作者¶

This article was contributed in August 2013 by Anders Skoglund (left), GIS specialist, and Kenichi Matsuoka (right), glaciologist, both at the Norwegian Polar Institute.