Ice charts

The Polar View high-resolution ice charts are provided on a weekly basis with a focus on the Svalbard area and are used primarily for marine safety and environmental research. Primary end users include ships operating in the waters around Svalbard and Norwegian Polar Institute doing habitat monitoring of polar bears. Other areas in the European and Russian Arctic can be covered on request. The ice charts are based on SAR images from Envisat or Radarsat and analyzed into a colour coded ice concentration chart according to the World Meteorological Organisation code. The ice chart production is done during working hours, but has 24-hour internal maintenance support and customer support service. The weekly updated archive of the high-resolution ice charts can be found at http://icemon.met.no/cgi-bin/highres_arkiv.pl.