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  <Entry_ID>BLVIS0</Entry_ID>
  <Entry_Title>Pre-IceBridge LVIS L0 Raw Ranges</Entry_Title>
  <Data_Set_Citation>
    <Dataset_Creator>Blair, Bryan, and Michelle Hofton</Dataset_Creator>
    <Dataset_Title>Pre-IceBridge LVIS L0 Raw Ranges</Dataset_Title>
    <Dataset_Release_Date>2011-12-27</Dataset_Release_Date>
    <Dataset_Release_Place>Boulder, Colorado USA</Dataset_Release_Place>
    <Dataset_Publisher>NSIDC DAAC: NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center</Dataset_Publisher>
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    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>J.</First_Name>
    <Middle_Name>Bryan</Middle_Name>
    <Last_Name>Blair</Last_Name>
    <Email>James.B.Blair@nasa.gov</Email>
    <Contact_Address>
      <Address>NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</Address>
      <Address>Laser Remote Sensing Branch</Address>
      <City>Greenbelt</City>
      <Province_or_State>Maryland</Province_or_State>
      <Postal_Code>20771</Postal_Code>
      <Country>USA</Country>
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  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>Michelle</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Hofton</Last_Name>
    <Email>mhofton@umd.edu</Email>
    <Contact_Address>
      <Address>University of Maryland</Address>
      <Address>Department of Geography</Address>
      <Address>2181 LeFrak Hall</Address>
      <City>College Park</City>
      <Province_or_State>Maryland</Province_or_State>
      <Postal_Code>20742</Postal_Code>
      <Country>USA</Country>
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  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Technical Contact</Role>
    <First_Name>NSIDC</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>User Services</Last_Name>
    <Email>nsidc@nsidc.org</Email>
    <Phone>1 303 492-6199 x</Phone>
    <Fax>1 303  492-2468 x</Fax>
    <Contact_Address>
      <Address>National Snow and Ice Data Center</Address>
      <Address>CIRES, 449 UCB</Address>
      <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
      <City>Boulder</City>
      <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
      <Postal_Code>80309-0449</Postal_Code>
      <Country>USA</Country>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>EARTH SCIENCE</Category>
    <Topic>Land Surface</Topic>
    <Term>Topography</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>Terrain Elevation</Variable_Level_1>
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  <ISO_Topic_Category>Elevation</ISO_Topic_Category>
  <ISO_Topic_Category>Geoscientific Information</ISO_Topic_Category>
  <Keyword>Airborne Laser Altimeters</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Elevation</Keyword>
  <Keyword>IceBridge</Keyword>
  <Keyword>NASA</Keyword>
  <Keyword>NSIDC</Keyword>
  <Keyword>NSIDC DAAC</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Terrain Elevation</Keyword>
  <Sensor_Name>
    <Short_Name>ALTIMETERS</Short_Name>
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  <Sensor_Name>
    <Short_Name>LASERS</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation</Long_Name>
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  <Source_Name>
    <Short_Name>AIRCRAFT</Short_Name>
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  <Source_Name>
    <Short_Name>B-200</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>Beechcraft King Air B-200</Long_Name>
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  <Source_Name>
    <Short_Name>DC-8</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>Douglas DC-8</Long_Name>
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  <Source_Name>
    <Short_Name>RQ-4</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk</Long_Name>
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  <Temporal_Coverage>
    <Start_Date>2007-09-20</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>2007-09-21</Stop_Date>
  </Temporal_Coverage>
  <Data_Set_Progress>complete</Data_Set_Progress>
  <Spatial_Coverage>
    <Southernmost_Latitude>60</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>90</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>-180</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>180</Easternmost_Longitude>
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  <Location>
    <Location_Category>CONTINENT</Location_Category>
    <Location_Type>NORTH AMERICA</Location_Type>
    <Location_Subregion1>GREENLAND</Location_Subregion1>
  </Location>
  <Project>
    <Short_Name>OIB</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>Operation Ice Bridge</Long_Name>
  </Project>
  <Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
  <Originating_Center>NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/LRSL</Originating_Center>
  <Data_Center>
    <Data_Center_Name>
      <Short_Name>NSIDC_DAAC</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center</Long_Name>
    </Data_Center_Name>
    <Data_Center_URL>http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html</Data_Center_URL>
    <Personnel>
      <Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
      <First_Name>NSIDC</First_Name>
      <Last_Name>User Services</Last_Name>
      <Email>nsidc@nsidc.org</Email>
      <Phone>1 303 492-6199 </Phone>
      <Fax>1 303  492-2468 </Fax>
      <Contact_Address>
        <Address>National Snow and Ice Data Center</Address>
        <Address>CIRES, 449 UCB</Address>
        <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
        <City>Boulder</City>
        <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
        <Postal_Code>80309-0449</Postal_Code>
        <Country>USA</Country>
      </Contact_Address>
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    <Data_Center_Name>
      <Short_Name>NSIDC</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>National Snow and Ice Data Center</Long_Name>
    </Data_Center_Name>
    <Data_Center_URL>http://nsidc.org</Data_Center_URL>
    <Personnel>
      <Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
      <First_Name>NSIDC</First_Name>
      <Last_Name>User Services</Last_Name>
      <Email>nsidc@nsidc.org</Email>
      <Phone>1 303 492-6199 </Phone>
      <Fax>1 303  492-2468 </Fax>
      <Contact_Address>
        <Address>National Snow and Ice Data Center</Address>
        <Address>CIRES, 449 UCB</Address>
        <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
        <City>Boulder</City>
        <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
        <Postal_Code>80309-0449</Postal_Code>
        <Country>USA</Country>
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  <Data_Center>
    <Data_Center_Name>
      <Short_Name>NSIDC_ICEBRIDGE</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>Operation IceBridge</Long_Name>
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    <Personnel>
      <Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
      <First_Name>NSIDC</First_Name>
      <Last_Name>User Services</Last_Name>
      <Email>nsidc@nsidc.org</Email>
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  <Distribution>
    <Distribution_Media>FTP</Distribution_Media>
    <Distribution_Size>15.3 GB</Distribution_Size>
    <Distribution_Format>Binary</Distribution_Format>
  </Distribution>
  <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 Pre-IceBridge LVIS L0 Raw Ranges (BLVIS0) data set contains laser altimeter measurements over Greenland taken from the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS).  The data are stored in binary format, along with airborne georeference files, and are available for 20 and 21 September 2007 via FTP.</Summary>
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    <URL_Content_Type>
      <Type>VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE</Type>
    </URL_Content_Type>
    <URL>http://lvis.gsfc.nasa.gov/</URL>
    <Description>Goddard Space Flight Center Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) Web Site</Description>
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  <Related_URL>
    <URL_Content_Type>
      <Type>VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE</Type>
    </URL_Content_Type>
    <URL>http://nsidc.org/data/icebridge/index.html</URL>
    <Description>IceBridge Product Web Site</Description>
  </Related_URL>
  <Metadata_Name>CEOS IDN DIF</Metadata_Name>
  <Metadata_Version>9.7</Metadata_Version>
  <DIF_Creation_Date>2011-12-27</DIF_Creation_Date>
  <Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2012-09-25</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
  <DIF_Revision_History> Removed duplicate See Also.</DIF_Revision_History>
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