IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Ground Elevation and Return Energy Quartiles

Data Contributors BLAIR, J. BRYAN HOFTON, MICHELLE Parameters TERRAIN ELEVATION Instruments ALTIMETERS LASERS : LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION

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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.

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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.

Blair, Bryan, and Michelle Hofton. 2010, updated current year. IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Ground Elevation and Return Energy Quartiles, [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/ilvis2.html.

See Also

• IceBridge LVIS L0 Raw Ranges
• IceBridge LVIS L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms
• IceBridge Product Web Site
• Goddard Space Flight Center Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) Web Site
• Pre-IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Ground Elevation and Return Energy Quartiles
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