Arctic ice taken by Hara Talasila

Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems

The Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems (CReSIS) captures and manages large quantities of data collected through airborne radars, antennas, and sounders.

About CReSIS

View of Crew Commander Henry Hartsfield Jr. loading film into the IMAX camera during the 41-D mission. The camera is floating in front of the middeck lockers. Above it is a sticker of the University of Kansas mascott, the Jayhawk. Credit: NASA

Research at CReSIS

CReSIS researchers engage in sustained, intense, collaborative work to achieve progress in problems of global significance. Our research groups bring undergraduate and graduate students into exciting work across a variety of disciplines with scientists from across the globe.

Our research

Data

89
successfully funded grants
28
deployments to arctic locations since 2005
1.2 petabytes
of raw scientific data hosted (that's over a million gigabytes)

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A student is instructed in using the MCCORDS radar
CReSIS scientists heading into a NASA facility


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People

CReSIS has a robust team of students, researchers, engineers, and other staff members working to better understand the changing dynamics of glacial regions, and transfer that knowledge to the larger scientific community.
Two researchers in Greenland operating heavy machinery with a Jayhawk decal
Icy landscape

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Echogram from MCORDS radar from Antarctica.