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NSIDC manages data for products derived from Operation IceBridge aircraft missions, and implements tools and services extending the uses of IceBridge data products.
The Operation IceBridge mission, initiated in 2009, collects airborne remote sensing measurements to bridge the gap between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-I) mission and the upcoming ICESat-II mission.
Areas observed and measured by the IceBridge mission include coastal Greenland, coastal Antarctica including the Antarctic Peninsula, interior Antarctica, the southeast Alaskan glaciers, and Antarctic and Arctic sea ice.
The IceBridge mission combines multiple instruments to map ice surface topography, bedrock topography beneath the ice sheets, grounding line position, ice and snow thickness, and sea ice distribution and freeboard. Data from laser altimeters and radar sounders are paired with gravitometer, magnetometer, mapping camera, and other data to provide dynamic, high-value, repeat measurements of rapidly-changing portions of land and sea ice.
In the near future, all IceBridge data will be available from the Order Data Web page. However, this page is currently under construction.
See Also
The NASA Earth Science Project Office Operation IceBridge site.
ICESat/GLAS project page at NSIDC
The main page of the ICESat/GLAS project.
Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA)
A program with the primary goal of measuring and understanding the mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Related Data Sets
GLAS/ICESat 500 m Laser Altimetry Digital Elevation Model of Antarctica
GLAS/ICESat 1 km Laser Altimetry Digital Elevation Model of Greenland
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