Antarctic Ice Sheet Datasets
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Dry Valleys, Antarctica; ASTER True Image
Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Boundaries
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.
MEaSUREs Antarctic Boundaries for IPY 2007-2009 from Satellite Radar, Version 2
ID: NSIDC-0709
Description: Maps of Antarctic ice shelves, basins, and coastlines derived from various sources
Data Format: GeoTIFF, BMP, Shapefile
Spatial Resolution: Not Specified
Projection: WGS 84 / Antarctic Polar Stereographic (EPSG:3031)
Sensor: ASAR, C-SAR, MODIS, OLI, PALSAR, SAR
Platform: ALOS, AQUA, COSMO-SKYMED, ENVISAT, ERS-1, ERS-2, LANDSAT-8, RADARSAT-1, RADARSAT-2, SENTINEL-1A, TERRA
Coverage Period: 1992-2015
Elevation
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.
Antarctic 1km DEM from Combined ERS-1 Radar and ICESat Laser Satellite Altimetry, Version 1
ID: NSIDC-0422
Description: Combination of ERS-1 Satellite Radar Altimeter (SRA) and Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) measurements
Data Format: Binary, ASCII
Spatial Resolution: 1 km x 1km
Projection: Not specified
Sensor: Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)
Platform:Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESAT)
Coverage Period: 2003-2008 (GLAS), 1994-1995 (ERS-1)
GLAS/ICESAT L1B Global Elevation Data (HDF5), Version 34
ID: GLAH06
Description: Analogous to geodetic data records distributed for radar altimetry missions
Data Format: HDF5
Spatial Resolution: 60 m to 70 m x 60 m to 70 m
Projection: Not specified
Sensor: Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)
Platform:Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESAT)
Coverage Period: 2003-2009
IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength with Waveforms, Version 1
ID: ILNSAW1B
Description: Level-1B geolocated and filtered spot elevation measurements of sea ice collected at 523 nm (green wavelength)
Data Format: HDF5
Spatial Resolution: 2 m x 2 m, varies
Projection: Not specified
Sensor: Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM)
Platform: C-130, DC-8, G-V, HU-25C, P-3B
Coverage Period: 2017-2019
Velocity
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.
Antarctic Ice Velocity
ID: Not specified
Description: Compliation of recent ice velocity data of the AIS
Data Format: ASCII (.txt)
Spatial Resolution: Not specified
Projection: Not specified
Sensor: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), High Resolution Visible Imaging System (HRV), Thematic Mapper (TM)
Platform: SPOT-1, SPOT-2, SPOT-3, SPOT-4, LANDSAT, NOAA POES
Coverage Period: 1975 to curent
Global Land Ice Velocity Extraction from Landsat 8 (GoLIVE), Version 1
ID: NSIDC-0710
Description: Compilation of ice velocity mappings derived from Landsat-8 panchromatic images
Data Format: NetCDF, PNG, GeoTIFF
Spatial Resolution: 300 m
Projection: Not specified
Sensor: Operational Land Imager (OLI)
Platform: Landsat-8
Coverage Period: 2013-2017
Gravity
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.
IceBridge Sander AIRGrav L1B Geolocated Free Air Gravity Anomalies, Version 1
ID: IGGRV1B
Description: Measurements collected from Sander Geophysics AIRGrav (airborne gravity system), as part of Operation IceBridge
Data Format: XML, ASCII
Spatial Resolution: 5 km to 7 km
Projection: WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413) | WGS 84 / Antarctic Polar Stereographic (EPSG:3031)
Sensor: AIRGrav
Platform: DC-8, P-38
Coverage Period: 2009-2018