A humpback whale lifts its tail from the water in Greenland's blue water with ice covered hills in the background

QGreenland

QGreenland

A Free GIS Package for Greenland

QGreenland is a free mapping tool to support interdisciplinary Greenland-focused research, teaching, decision making, and collaboration. More specifically, QGreenland is a full geospatial data package that runs on the free and open source QGIS software. With QGreenland, anyone can explore a wide variety of Greenland-focused geospatial data in their office, lab, classroom, or even in the field.

QGreenland is used in high school to graduate classrooms and within curriculum that focuses on a wide range of topics, including GIS skills, polar climate, data skills, hydrology and physical sciences, and more. QGreenland also has a wide range of research and decision-making applications, including planning field work, synthesizing and analyzing data, and creating data and map visuals and figures. Resources here can help you work with QGreenland, too.

QGreenland development began in 2019 and is led by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, within the University of Colorado Boulder Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. QGreenland is funded by the National Science Foundation and benefits from the generous efforts of a wide range of collaborators.

If you have any questions, please email QGreenland.info@gmail.com.

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Wide polar seascape showing a whale’s tail flukes rising from calm water in the foreground. Floating ice pieces dot the water’s surface. Large blue‑white icebergs and ice-covered landforms fill the background beneath a pale, partly cloudy sky.
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Wide polar coastal landscape showing two small human figures standing on dark, rocky terrain in the foreground near calm water. Large floating icebergs and broken sea ice fill the midground and extend into the distance. The sky is partly cloudy with soft light reflecting on the water and ice.

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