{"id":80,"date":"2026-06-02T12:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.npolar.no\/quantarctica\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:54:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.npolar.no\/quantarctica\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A free GIS data package for Antarctica, the Southern Ocean and the Subantarctic islands<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Quantarctica brings together a wide range of geospatial datasets for research, education, operations, and environmental management. It enables users to explore, visualise, integrate and share geospatial data within a common GIS environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Quantarctica package<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Quantarctica data package comprises Antarctic geographic data from data centres worldwide \u2013 all wrapped in a project file that works on QGIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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QGIS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quantarctica is prepared for the use on on QGIS<\/a>, a powerful, user-friendly, and open-source Geographic Information System (GIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GIS is designed to capture, store, analyse and view many types of geographical data.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QGIS supports a wide range of vector, raster, and database formats, connects to various online map services, and can be extended through plugins and scripting to meet diverse research and mapping needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QGIS works without Internet access, so you can bring Quantarctica to remote areas during field campaigns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The basemap data<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quantarctica includes a comprehensive collection of Antarctic and Southern Ocean basemap data, such as coastlines, outcrops, elevation contours, research facilities, and place names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These datasets are provided as vector layers in Shapefile format. The package also contains raster datasets, such as digital elevation models and satellite imagery, available in GeoTIFF, JPEG2000, and JPEG formats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The scientific data<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quantarctica includes a range of scientific datasets organized into nine core themes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n