Who’s going where and how? What can they do there? Towards an integrated database for polar logistics and infrastructures: Polardex

• Main Authors: Nolan, Joseph, Ojeda Cárdenes, Miguel Ángel, Badhe, Renuka, Elshout, P.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; SCAR; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/333875

10th Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Open Science Conference (SCAR 2022), 1-10 August 2022 As polar research, infrastructure and observing systems come of age, there is increasing interest in sharing information about logistical resources, which in turn makes it possible for the resources themselves to be shared across institutions and nations, facilitating multi-agency collaboration. To support this, Polardex is new online discovery and planning tool for polar infrastructure and logistics. Led by the European Polar Board (EPB), Polardex has been developed by a wide team of partners and with data and information provided by many organisations and projects. Polardex is an evolution of the European Polar Infrastructure Database, combining it with the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) DueSouth database to be an integrated platform for physical infrastructure (field facilities, vessels, aircraft and other assets) and logistics (planned routes, cruises, transects, etc.). Polardex’s modern, cloud-based, serverless technology provides high availability and high performance, with a scalable platform to be made available to the polar communities. This facilitates easy access to search and discovery of polar logistics and infrastructure resources and information, helping to maximise use and international collaboration in Arctic and Antarctic research. This presentation, on behalf of the EPB Action Group on Infrastructure, will introduce Polardex and its features, and outline the process by which it was built and continues to develop Peer reviewed