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Access Data: available via FTP
| Instruments: | airborne laser altimetry (elevation) |
| airborne radio echo sounding (thickness) | |
| Time Period: | 1991/92, 1992/93, and 1995/96 |
| Flight Tracks: | 116 |
| Sample Points: | 53,170 (elevation) |
| 32,813 (thickness) | |
| Spacing: | ~8 m (elevation) |
| ~12-30 m (thickness) |
| Units: |
| m surface elevation (vs. WGS84 ellipsoid) |
| m ice thickness |
| Min | Max | Mean | Stdev | |
| elev: | 398.42 | 2194.53 | 1250.26 | 419.46 |
| thick: | 0.00 | 3266.75 | 1701.35 | 374.34 |