IceBridge UAF GPS/IMU L1B Corrected Position and Attitude Data

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Entry ID

IPUAF1B

Summary

The NASA IceBridge UAF GPS/IMU Level-1B Corrected Position and Attitude Data set (IPUAF1B) contains positioning and orientation measurements for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Glacier LIDAR system campaigns. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns and are stored in ASCII text format. The data are available via ftp for periodic, ongoing campaigns from 19 August 2009 to the present.

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: Larsen, Chris
Dataset Title: IceBridge UAF GPS/IMU L1B Corrected Position and Attitude Data
Dataset Release Date: 2011-12-06
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC DAAC: NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/ipuaf1b.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2009-08-19

Location Keywords

• CONTINENT NORTH AMERICA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALASKA

Science Keywords

• Spectral/Engineering Platform Characteristics Attitude Characteristics

Ancillary Keywords

• Alaska
• glacier profile
• glaciers
• IceBridge
• NASA
• NSIDC
• NSIDC DAAC
• Precision Attitude Determination

ISO Topic Category (View Definitions)

• Geoscientific Information

Platform

• AIRCRAFT

Instrument

• GPS/IMU Global Positioning System/Inertial Measurement Unit

Project

• OIB Operation Ice Bridge

Data Set Progress

in work

Originating Center

UAK-F/GI

Data Center

NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:

• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• CIRES, 449 UCB
• University of Colorado

City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:

• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• CIRES, 449 UCB
• University of Colorado

City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Operation IceBridge

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC User Services
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org

Distribution

Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 3.6 GB
Distribution Format: ASCII Text

Personnel

Chris Larsen
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: Chris.Larsen@gi.alaska.edu
Contact Address:

• University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Geophysical Institute

City: Fairbanks
Province or State: AK
Postal Code: 99775
Country: USA

NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:

• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• CIRES, 449 UCB
• University of Colorado

City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Related URL

VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Alaska Glacier Laser Altimetry Web Site

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
IceBridge Product Web Site

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/

IceBridge UAF LIDAR Scanner L1B Geolocated Surface Elevation Triplets: http://nsidc.org/data/ilaks1b.html

IceBridge UAF LIDAR Profiler L1B Geolocated Surface Elevation Triplets: http://nsidc.org/data/ilakp1b.html

Metadata Name and Version

Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2011-12-06
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-10-01

DIF Text-Only

Directory Interchange Format (DIF) in plain text

DIF XML

Directory Interchange Format (DIF) in Extensible Markup Language (XML)

FGDC HTML

U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM)

ISO HTML

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 19115:2003 Geographic Information Metadata