IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Ground Elevation and Return Energy Quartiles

The documentation for this data set is currently under construction and will be available in the near future. If you have any questions regarding this data set, please contact NSIDC User Services Office either by filling out a contact form, by e-mail to nsidc@nsidc.org, or by telephone at +1 303-492-6199.

The IceBridge LVIS Level-2 Geolocated Ground Elevation and Return Energy Quartiles (ILVIS2) data set contains a series of Greenland and Antarctica ground elevation measurements taken from the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS). The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded campaigns, and are stored in ASCII text and big-endian binary format and are available for periodic, ongoing campaigns from 14 April 2009 to the present via FTP.

Note: If you downloaded the 2010 Greenland data before 13 April 2012, please download the new Version 01.1 2010 Greenland data files at your convenience. All of the 2010 Greenland data for the IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Ground Elevation and Return Energy Quartiles data set have been replaced as of 13 April 2012. Some incorrect values occurred in the previous version of the files, and these are corrected in the Version 01.1 data.

NSIDC provides an LVIS file C reader that reads a binary data file from the Operation IceBridge LVIS instrument and prints the records to standard output.

For more on LVIS, see the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor page.