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IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM L1B Qfit Elevation and Return Strength

NSIDC DAAC Data CatalogICEBRIDGE Data Catalog

Data Contributors

  • KRABILL, WILLIAM B.

Parameters

  • SEA ICE ELEVATION

Instruments

  • ATM : AIRBORNE TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPER

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The NASA IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM Level-1B Qfit Elevation and Return Strength (ILNSA1B) data set contains spot elevation measurements of Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic sea ice acquired using the NASA Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) 4CT3 narrow scan instrumentation. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns. The data are stored in qfit binary format and are available via FTP for periodic, ongoing campaigns from 16 March 2011 to the present.

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Data Citation

The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title and version number, dates of the data you used (for example, March to June 2004), publisher: NSIDC, and digital media.

Krabill, William B. 2011, updated current year. IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM L1B Qfit Elevation and Return Strength, [list dates of data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: NASA Distributed Active Archive Center at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media. http://nsidc.org/data/ilnsa1b.html.


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