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Abstract:
Quantarctica is a collection of Antarctic geographical datasets which works with the free, cross-platform, open-source software QGIS. It includes community-contributed, peer-reviewed data from ten different scientific themes and a professionally-designed basemap.
Quality
The Quantarctica Editorial Board selects peer-reviewed datasets for a wide range of Antarctic users, including over 150 basemap and scientific data layers and thematic coverage from Glaciology and Geophysics to other themes such as Atmospheric Science, Biology, Oceanography, Social Sciences, and more. The Quantarctica project team at the Norwegian Polar Institute then incorporates these layers into the Quantarctica data package by importing, reprojecting, styling, labeling, and organizing them for user-friendly presentation.