GREENLAND MELTING
A VOLUMETRIC VR DOCUMENTARY
GREENLAND MELTING – A VOLUMETRIC VR DOCUMENTARY
Conceptualized with PBS FRONTLINE director Catherine Upin, Blueplanet VR’s Founder Eric Hanson helped develop this innovative interactive documentary and realize a primary scene.
Made with The Emblematic Group, Realtra, NOVA, and NASA, Greenland Melting is first of it’s kind, an 11 minute volumetric VR documentary experience allowing one to see firsthand the degradation of the glaciers in Greenland, and an unexpected discovery making matters worse.
Blueplanet VR developed a key photogrammetric scene surrounding the Kangilerngata glacier, illustrating the effects of Atlantic current impact on calving of the glacier, the research accomplished from NASA’s OMG project.
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https://omg.jpl.nasa.gov
A key contributor was our Icelandic colleague Olafur Haraldsson, who shot the aerial photogrammetry and ground based 360 video.
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For centuries, the enormous ice sheet covering the Arctic island of Greenland has been relatively stable.
So when NASA scientists realized that Greenland’s glaciers had begun melting much faster than expected, they were puzzled — and alarmed: If all of Greenland’s ice sheet were to melt, it’s estimated that sea level around the world would rise by about 20 feet, putting coastal cities from Miami to Mumbai at risk of catastrophic flooding.
“The changes we are witnessing are amazing,” says Eric Rignot, a professor at The University of California, Irvine and a senior scientist on a NASA team that’s traveled to Greenland to try to better understand exactly how quickly its glaciers are melting. “None of us expected to see such changes in Greenland.”
Step onto Greenland’s melting glaciers and see the changed landscapes Rignot saw for yourself in Greenland Melting — a 360° documentary from FRONTLINE, NOVA, Emblematic Group, BluePlanet VR founder Eric Hanson and Realtra publishing.
Filmed in the sky and on the ground in a part of the planet few people will ever have the opportunity to visit, this immersive experience follows Rignot and NASA scientist Josh Willis into the Arctic as they share their research into what’s causing Greenland’s ice to melt faster and faster.
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