I found a cool new toy to check out the sea ice (and other things!) The toy is a program available as a downloadable .exe file. It will let you do cool things like quickly access images for sea ice or sun spots. The programmers have also coded features to let you subtract images separated by 1 day, month, or year, and also subtract two images of your choice.

To use the program, first visit the download page by clicking the little image link below:

The program is an .exe file and will run on your pc. Once you click, an icon will appear on your desktop. Chose that application to run; the program will connect to a host at iVu; the main page of iVu will display.

On the top panel, find the “file” view pull-down menu. Pull down, and then select JAXA. Afterwards the scan option to select from preconfigured choices of JAXA data.

You will then be able to scan the previous and current day ice. (Or, if you prefer the previous and current week sea ice.) A typical single day image will look like this:

Now, for the feature that will be most useful for ice watcher, pick “overlay” to subtract the most recent ice data from the previous data:

You can do similar things to check out sea ice, and sun spots.

The product developers currently letting people download this for free. They are also eager to learn what other features users might enjoy from their product. So, they’d love it if you would download iVu, play around with it bit and provide feedback on other features you’d like. You can leave feedback in comments.