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🚀 Getting started

  • Overview
  • Install
  • Quickstart
  • Citing PolarToolkit

đŸšļ Tutorials

  • Tutorials
    • 1. Download polar data
    • 2. Specify download parameters
    • 3. Create a simple map
    • 4. Add map features
    • 5. Create subplots
    • 6. 3D plots
    • 7. Plotting point data
    • 8. Create a cross-section and profile
    • 9. Interactively explore data
    • 10. Reproject your data

📚 How-To Guides

  • How-To Guides
    • Download NASA datasets
    • Basemaps
    • Switch between hemispheres
    • Non-Polar Stereographic projections
    • Defining geographic regions
    • Manipulating geographic regions
    • Use with PyGMT
    • Choosing a colorscale
    • 3D stack of grids
    • Extract and plot data along a profile

📂 Available datasets

  • Antarctica
    • Bedmap2 Grids
    • Bedmap3 Grids
    • Bedmachine Grids
    • Deepbedmap Bed Topography
    • ETOPO1 Surface Topography
    • REMA surface elevations
    • IBCSO v2 surface and bed elevation
    • Geoid Anomaly Grid
    • Bedmap Point Data
    • IBCSO v2 data coverage
    • Moho Models
    • Crustal Thickness Grids
    • Sediment Thickness
    • Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA)
    • MODIS MOA
    • Gravity
    • Magnetics
    • Geothermal Heat Flux
    • Glacial Isostatic Adjustment
    • Ice Velocity
    • Mass Change
    • Ice shelf buttressing
    • Groundingline locations
    • Antarctic Boundaries from MEaSUREs
    • Geologic information
    • Bed Type Classifications
  • Greenland and the Arctic
    • Bedmachine Grids
    • Geoid Anomaly Grid
    • ETOPO1 Surface Topography
    • MODIS MOG
    • Gravity
    • Magnetics
    • Mass Change
    • Ice Velocity
    • Groundingline locations

đŸ–ŧī¸ Gallery examples

  • Gallery examples
    • Masking grids
    • Define figure projection

📖 API

  • API Reference
    • polartoolkit.basemap
    • polartoolkit.plot_grid
    • polartoolkit.plot_3d
    • polartoolkit.subplots
    • polartoolkit.plot_profile
    • polartoolkit.plot_data
    • polartoolkit.draw_lines
    • polartoolkit.shapes_to_df
    • polartoolkit.make_data_dict
    • polartoolkit.default_data
    • polartoolkit.default_layers
    • polartoolkit.reproject
    • polartoolkit.latlon_to_epsg3031
    • polartoolkit.latlon_to_epsg3413
    • polartoolkit.epsg3031_to_latlon
    • polartoolkit.epsg3413_to_latlon
    • polartoolkit.dd2dms
    • polartoolkit.default_epsg
    • polartoolkit.epsg_central_coordinates
    • polartoolkit.gmt_projection_from_epsg
    • polartoolkit.subset_grid
    • polartoolkit.sample_grids
    • polartoolkit.resample_grid
    • polartoolkit.block_reduce
    • polartoolkit.change_registration
    • polartoolkit.filter_grid
    • polartoolkit.get_min_max
    • polartoolkit.get_combined_min_max
    • polartoolkit.get_grid_info
    • polartoolkit.get_grid_region
    • polartoolkit.get_grid_registration
    • polartoolkit.get_grid_spacing
    • polartoolkit.grid_blend
    • polartoolkit.grid_compare
    • polartoolkit.grid_trend
    • polartoolkit.make_grid
    • polartoolkit.mask_from_polygon
    • polartoolkit.mask_from_shapefile
    • polartoolkit.nearest_grid_fill
    • polartoolkit.points_inside_region
    • polartoolkit.points_inside_shapefile
    • polartoolkit.polygon_to_shapefile
    • polartoolkit.rmse
    • polartoolkit.square_subplots
    • polartoolkit.set_proj
    • polartoolkit.random_color
    • polartoolkit.get_fig_height
    • polartoolkit.get_fig_width
    • polartoolkit.gmt_str_to_list
    • polartoolkit.interactive_map
    • polartoolkit.interactive_data
    • polartoolkit.geoviews_points
    • polartoolkit.alter_region
    • polartoolkit.combine_regions
    • polartoolkit.regions_overlap
    • polartoolkit.draw_region
    • polartoolkit.polygon_to_region
    • polartoolkit.region_xy_to_ll
    • polartoolkit.region_ll_to_xy
    • polartoolkit.region_to_df
    • polartoolkit.region_to_bounding_box
    • polartoolkit.square_around_region
    • polartoolkit.fetch.EarthDataDownloader
    • polartoolkit.fetch.mass_change
    • polartoolkit.fetch.basal_melt
    • polartoolkit.fetch.buttressing
    • polartoolkit.fetch.ice_vel
    • polartoolkit.fetch.modis
    • polartoolkit.fetch.imagery
    • polartoolkit.fetch.antarctic_bed_type
    • polartoolkit.fetch.geomap
    • polartoolkit.fetch.groundingline
    • polartoolkit.fetch.antarctic_boundaries
    • polartoolkit.fetch.sediment_thickness
    • polartoolkit.fetch.ibcso_coverage
    • polartoolkit.fetch.ibcso
    • polartoolkit.fetch.bedmachine
    • polartoolkit.fetch.bedmap_points
    • polartoolkit.fetch.bedmap3
    • polartoolkit.fetch.bedmap2
    • polartoolkit.fetch.rema
    • polartoolkit.fetch.deepbedmap
    • polartoolkit.fetch.gravity
    • polartoolkit.fetch.etopo
    • polartoolkit.fetch.geoid
    • polartoolkit.fetch.magnetics
    • polartoolkit.fetch.ghf
    • polartoolkit.fetch.gia
    • polartoolkit.fetch.crustal_thickness
    • polartoolkit.fetch.moho

â„šī¸ Other resources

  • How to contribute
  • Changelog
  • References
  • Source code on GitHub
  • Repository
  • Suggest edit
  • Open issue
  • .md

Antarctica

Contents

  • Topography-related data
  • Imagery
  • Geophysical data
  • Geophysically-derived data
  • Shapefiles and Misc.

Antarctica#

Topography-related data#

Bedmap2 Grids
Bedmap3 Grids
Bedmachine Grids
Deepbedmap Bed Topography
ETOPO1 Surface Topography
REMA surface elevations
IBCSO v2 surface and bed elevation
Geoid Anomaly Grid
Bedmap Point Data
IBCSO v2 data coverage
Moho Models
Crustal Thickness Grids
Sediment Thickness

Imagery#

Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA)
MODIS MOA

Geophysical data#

Gravity
Magnetics

Geophysically-derived data#

Geothermal Heat Flux
Glacial Isostatic Adjustment
Ice Velocity
Mass Change
Ice shelf buttressing

Shapefiles and Misc.#

Groundingline locations
Antarctic Boundaries from MEaSUREs
Geologic information
Bed Type Classifications

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Bedmap2 Grids

Contents
  • Topography-related data
  • Imagery
  • Geophysical data
  • Geophysically-derived data
  • Shapefiles and Misc.

By Matt Tankersley

Last updated on Mar 22, 2026.