How is Polar View different from its predecessor, Northern View? What services does it provide which didn exist before?
Polar View is a much larger programme with participation from 10 countries and with an initial contract for three years to 2008. Northern View was a 20 month programme really building the foundations for Polar View. The goal of the original Northern View activity was to become a one-stop-shop for geospacial, or large area information about what is happening in the North; issues like snow melt and snow extent, ice issues, glacier issues, Northern infrastructure, and what’s happening in terms of climate change. Because it was a much smaller entity than Polar View, the emphasis of Northern View was very much on operational services: using existing technology and getting the information out there to the world – to those who could use it. With Northern View, we demonstrated to the European Space Agency that there was a very real need for geospacial monitoring in the North, and that the benefits outweighed the costs. The fact that we then moved from Northern View to Polar View proves that we
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