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  <Entry_Title>Pre-IceBridge ATM L2 Icessn Elevation, Slope, and Roughness</Entry_Title>
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    <Dataset_Creator>Krabill, W. B. and R. Thomas. </Dataset_Creator>
    <Dataset_Title>Pre-IceBridge ATM L2 Icessn Elevation, Slope, and Roughness</Dataset_Title>
    <Dataset_Release_Date>2010-09-08</Dataset_Release_Date>
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  <Keyword>Elevation</Keyword>
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  <Keyword>IceBridge</Keyword>
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  <Keyword>Ice Sheet Elevation</Keyword>
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    <Southernmost_Latitude>-90</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>-53</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>-180</Westernmost_Longitude>
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    <Short_Name>OIB</Short_Name>
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  <Reference>Refer to the NASA Earth Science Project Office Operation IceBridge Home Page for in-depth information on the science mission and goal of the IceBridge project: http://www.espo.nasa.gov/oib/</Reference>
  <Summary>The NASA Pre-IceBridge ATM Level-2 Icessn Elevation, Slope, and Roughness (BLATM2) data set contains resampled and smoothed elevation measurements of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, and Greenland, Antarctic and Arctic region land ice surface acquired using the NASA Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrumentation.</Summary>
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    <URL>http://nsidc.org/data/ilatm1b.html</URL>
    <Description>IceBridge ATM L1B Qfit Elevation and Return Strength</Description>
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    <Description>IceBridge ATM L2 Icessn Elevation, Slope, and Roughness</Description>
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  <Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2013-04-11</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
  <DIF_Revision_History> Updated to Minor version 1</DIF_Revision_History>
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