BLVIS2 Pre-IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Ground Elevation and Return Energy Quartiles Blair, Bryan, and Michelle Hofton Pre-IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Ground Elevation and Return Energy Quartiles 2011-03-16 Boulder, Colorado USA NSIDC DAAC: NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/data/blvis2.html Investigator J. Bryan Blair James.B.Blair@nasa.gov

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Laser Remote Sensing Branch

Greenbelt Maryland 20771 USA Investigator Michelle Hofton mhofton@umd.edu

University of Maryland

Department of Geography

2181 LeFrak Hall

College Park Maryland 20742 USA Technical Contact NSIDC User Services nsidc@nsidc.org 1 303 492-6199 x 1 303 492-2468 x

National Snow and Ice Data Center

CIRES, 449 UCB

University of Colorado

Boulder CO 80309-0449 USA EARTH SCIENCE Land Surface Topography Terrain Elevation Elevation Airborne Laser Altimeters Elevation IceBridge NASA NSIDC NSIDC DAAC Terrain Elevation ALTIMETERS LASERS Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation AIRCRAFT B-200 Beechcraft King Air B-200 DC-8 Douglas DC-8 RQ-4 Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk 2007-01-01 2007-12-31 complete 60 90 -180 180 CONTINENT NORTH AMERICA GREENLAND OIB Operation Ice Bridge English NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/LRSL NSIDC_DAAC NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html Data Center Contact NSIDC User Services nsidc@nsidc.org 1 303 492-6199 1 303 492-2468

National Snow and Ice Data Center

CIRES, 449 UCB

University of Colorado

Boulder CO 80309-0449 USA NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org Data Center Contact NSIDC User Services nsidc@nsidc.org 1 303 492-6199 1 303 492-2468

National Snow and Ice Data Center

CIRES, 449 UCB

University of Colorado

Boulder CO 80309-0449 USA NSIDC_ICEBRIDGE Operation IceBridge Data Center Contact NSIDC User Services nsidc@nsidc.org FTP 417 MB Binary 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/

The Pre-IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Ground Elevation and Return Energy Quartiles (BLVIS2) data set contains ground elevation measurements taken in 2007 over Greenland from the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS). The data are stored in big-endian binary format and are available via FTP.

VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE http://lvis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Goddard Space Flight Center Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) WebSite VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE http://nsidc.org/data/icebridge/index.html IceBridge Product Web Site VIEW RELATED INFORMATION http://nsidc.org/data/ilvis0.html IceBridge LVIS L0 Raw Ranges VIEW RELATED INFORMATION http://nsidc.org/data/ilvis1b.html IceBridge LVIS L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms VIEW RELATED INFORMATION http://nsidc.org/data/ilvis2.html IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product CEOS IDN DIF 9.7 2011-03-16 2012-09-25 Removed duplicate See Also entries.