MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data

Data Contributors JOUGHIN, IAN SMITH, BEN HOWAT, IAN SCAMBOS, TED Parameters GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIER MOTION/ICE SHEET MOTION GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > ICE SHEETS SNOW/ICE > ICE VELOCITY Instruments SAR : SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR

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This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides annual ice-sheet-wide velocity maps for Greenland, derived using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data from the RADARSAT-1 satellite. The data set currently contains ice velocity data for the winter of 2000-2001 and 2005-2006, 2006-2007, and 2007-2008 acquired from RADARSAT-1 InSAR data from the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF), and a 2008-2009 mosaic derived from the Advanced Land Observation Satelitte (ALOS) and TerraSAR-X data.

Data are available via FTP, in 4-byte big-endian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) floating point and GeoTIFF (.tif) formats.

Note. These data are considered provisional pending a review by the MEaSUREs program. Once the data have been reviewed, this statement will be removed from this documentation.

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Literature Citation

The generation of this data set is discussed in the following article(s). Please acknowledge the use of this data set by referencing the following citation(s):

Joughin, I., B. Smith, I. Howat, T. Scambos, and T. Moon. 2010. Greenland Flow Variability from Ice-Sheet-Wide Velocity Mapping. Journal of Glaciology 56(197): 415-430.

Data Citation

The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.

Joughin, I., B. Smith, I. Howat, and T. Scambos.. 2010. MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

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