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If you are searching for Anarctic Ice Sheet datasets, visit the Antarctic Ice Sheet Datasets page. If you are interested in paleo datasets, visit the Paleo Datasets page.
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Frederikshåb Glacier, Greenland; Landsat-8 True Image
\nImage Credit: NASA/USGS
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Ice Sheet Boundaries
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Ice sheet boundaries reveal important information about ice sheet dynamics. This ice sheet boundary inventory is not representative of all available datasets, but some of the most utilized datasets.
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MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) Land Ice and Ocean Classification Masks 1999-2002 and 2013-2015
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ID: GIMP NSIDC Landing page
\nDescription: A link to the data repository hosted on NSIDC for the MEaSUREs Greenland Land Ice and Ocean Classification Masks
\nData Format: GeoTIFF
\nSpatial Resolution: 15 m, 30 m, 90 m
\nProjection: EPSG:3413 – WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North
\nSensor: Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (EMT+)
\nPlatform: Landsat-7
\nCoverage Period: 1999-2002 and 2013-2015
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North-West Greenland Ice Masks – PROMICE
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ID: GEUS Dataverse download portal
\nDescription: Mapping products of the extent of the NW Greenland Ice Sheet sector from multiple sources as part of PROMICE (Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet)
\nData Format: ESRI Shapefile (vector)
\nSpatial Resolution: Varied
\nProjection: EPSG:3264 – WGS 84 / UTM Zone 24N
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\n1. 1985 Extent – Derived from orthophotos from stereophotogrammetric imagery taken in 1985
\nSensor: WILD RC10 camera and WILD Super Aviogon-II lens
\nPlatform: Not described
\nCoverage Period: 1985
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\n2. CCI – Includes peripheral glaciers and ice caps with strong connections to the GrIS; outline is based on Landsat-7 imagery
\nSensor: Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+)
\nPlatform: Landsat-7
\nCoverage Period: 2000-2002
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\n3. GIMP – Derived from image mosaic from Landsat-7 and RADARSAT-1 imagery
\nSensor: Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
\nPlatform: Landsat-7, RADARSAT-1
\nCoverage Period: 1999-2001
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\n4. Rignot dataset – NW sector modified to exclude ice sheet margins north of 76°48'N and 67°0'W
\nSensor: Not described
\nPlatform: Not described
\nCoverage Period: 2007-2008
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Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Greenland Ice Sheet Outlines
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ID: gi_rgi05_003
\nDescription: Includes peripheral glaciers and ice caps with strong connection to the ice sheet
\nData Format: Vector (polygon), shapefile
\nSpatial Resolution: 30 m
\nProjection: EPSG: 4326
\nSensor: Thematic Mapper (TM), Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (EMT+)
\nPlatform: Landsat-5, Landsat-7
\nCoverage Period: 1994-2009
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Elevation
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Ice sheet elevation reveals important information about changing ice sheet dynamics, such as mass balance. This ice sheet elevation inventory is not representative of all available datasets, but some of the most utilized datasets.
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Greenland 5 km DEM, Ice Thickness, and Bedrock Elevation Grids, Version 1
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ID: NSIDC-0092
\nDescription: Combination of ERS-1 and Geosat satellite radar altimetry data, ATM data, and photogrammetric digital height data
\nData Format: TIFF, IMG, Binary, ASCII
\nSpatial Resolution: 5 km x 5 km
\nProjection: Not specified
\nSensor: Altimeters, Advanced Thematic Mapper (ATM), Radar altimeters, Radar echo sounders
\nPlatform: Aircraft, Geosat
\nCoverage Period: 1970, 1993-1999
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IceBridge BedMachine Greenland, Version 5
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ID: IDBMG4
\nDescription: Bed topography and bathymetry map of Greenland based on mass conservation and ocean bathymetry data (see BedMachine documentation)
\nData Format: NetCDF, GeoTIFF
\nSpatial Resolution: 150 m x 150 m
\nProjection: WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North
\nSensor: Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS)
\nPlatform: NASA DC-8, P-3B
\nCoverage Period: 1993-2021
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MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GrIMP) Digital Elevation Model from GeoEye and WorldView Imagery, Version 2
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ID: NSIDC-0715
\nDescription: DEM derived from imagery collected by GeoEye-1, WorldView-1, -2, and -3 satellites (see GrIMP DEM documentation)
\nData Format: GeoTIFF
\nSpatial Resolution: 30 m x 30 m
\nProjection: WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413)
\nSensor: CAMERAS
\nPlatform: GeoEye-1, WorldView-1, WorldView-2, WorldView-3
\nCoverage Period: 2008-2020
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IceBridge ATM L2 Icessn Elevation, Slope, and Roughness
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ID: Not Specified
\nDescription: IceBridge ATM L2 Icessn Elevation, Slope, and Roughness data organized into individual flight lines
\nData Format: Shapefile, ASCII
\nSpatial Resolution: Not specified
\nProjection: Not specified
\nSensor: C-130, DC-8, G-V, HU-25A, HU-25C, P-3B, WP-3D ORION
\nPlatform: Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM)
\nCoverage Period: 1993-2019
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Velocity
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Ice sheet velocity reveal important information about changing ice sheet dynamics. This ice sheet velocity inventory is not representative of all available datasets, but some of the most utilized datasets.
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MEaSUREs Multi-year Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaic, Version 1
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ID: NSIDC-0670
\nDescription: Multi-year ice sheet-wide velocity mosaic derived from InSAR, SAR, and OLI imagery (see MEaSUREs velocity documentation)
\nData Format: GeoTIFF, JPEG
\nSpatial Resolution: 250 m
\nProjection: WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413)
\nSensor: Operational Land Imager (OLI), Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
\nPlatform: Landsat-8, RADARSAT 1 and 2, ALOS PALSAR, TerraSAR-X (TSX)/TanDEM-X (TDX), ERS-1/2
\nCoverage Period: 1995-2015
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Greenland Ice Velocity from Sentinel-1 Edition 4
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ID: Not Specified
\nDescription: Timeseries of Greenland Ice Sheet velocity mosaics derived from the European Space Agency (ESA) 's Sentinel-1 SAR
\nData Format:PNG with accompanying NetCDF
\nSpatial Resolution: 200 m
\nProjection: Polar Stereographic projection (EPSG: 3413)
\nSensor: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
\nPlatform: Sentinel-1
\nCoverage Period: 2016 to present
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MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps from InSAR, Version 4
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ID: NSIDC-0481
\nDescription: Velocity estimates derived from SAR data for glacier outlet areas
\nData Format: GeoTIFF, JPEG
\nSpatial Resolution: 100 m
\nProjection: WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413)
\nSensor: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
\nPlatform: TerraSAR-X/ TanDEM-x (TSX/TDX)
\nCoverage Period: 2008-2023
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Gravity
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Ice sheet gravity reveal important information about changing ice sheet dynamics. This ice sheet gravity inventory is not representative of all available datasets, but some of the most utilized datasets.
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IceBridge Sander AIRGrav L1B Geolocated Free Air Gravity Anomalies, Version 1
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ID: IGGRV1B
\nDescription: Measurements collected from Sander Geophysics AIRGrav (airborne gravity system), as part of Operation IceBridge
\nData Format: XML, ASCII
\nSpatial Resolution: 5 km to 7 km
\nProjection: WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413) | WGS 84 / Antarctic Polar Stereographic (EPSG:3031)
\nSensor: AIRGrav
\nPlatform: DC-8, P-38
\nCoverage Period: 2009-2018
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