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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

Greenland and the Arctic

Contents

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

Greenland and the Arctic#

Topography-related data#

Bedmachine Grids
Geoid Anomaly Grid
ETOPO1 Surface Topography

Imagery#

MODIS MOG

Geophysical data#

Gravity
Magnetics

Geophysically-derived data#

Mass Change
Ice Velocity

Shapefiles and Misc.#

Groundingline locations

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Bed Type Classifications

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Bedmachine Grids

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

By Matt Tankersley

Last updated on Mar 22, 2026.