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The Arctic Satellite Composite Project
The Arctic Satellite Composite Project, is a grant funded by the Arctic Sciences division of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and it is a project dedicated to developing satellite composite images, of various wavelengths, over the Arctic polar region of the globe. The project, based out of the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin, and is headed by Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Matthew Lazzara, with assistance from co-PI Shelley Knuth.

Since the project’s inception in 2007, composite images in the infrared, water vapor, short-wave, and long-wave wavelengths have been generated over the region. The images are produced every three hours, on the synoptic hour. To generate the composite images, swaths of satellite images from geo-stationary and polar-orbiting satellites are collected within +/- 50 minutes of the top of the hour, and “spliced” together to form one image of the entire region. The images are centered at the North Pole, and extend as far south as 45°. The images have a resolution of 5 km.

Future work on the generation of the satellite composite imagery will include visible composite generation as well as hourly composite generation. It is anticipated this work will be completed in 2010.

To download or view the Arctic satellite composite imagery, please visit our website.

Feel free to contact the project leaders at mailto:arctic@ssec.wisc.edu at any time with questions or assistance with data.