Abshire, J. et al. 2005. Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) on the ICESat mission: on-orbit measurement performance. Geophysical Research Letters v. 32, L21S02, doi:10.1029/2005GL1024028.
Brenner, A. et al. 2003. Derivation of range and range distributions from laser pulse waveform analysis for surface elevations, roughness, slope, and vegetations heights, Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) v.4.1, available at http://www.csr.utexas.edu/glas/atbd.html.
DiMarzio, J. P., A. C. Brenner, and H. J. Zwally. 2004. Comparison of Envisat and ERS radar altimetry for ice –sheet elevation change studies. ESA Envisat Sympsium, Salzburg, Austria, September 9, 2004.
Krabill, W. et al. 2002. Aircraft laser altimetry measurement of elevation changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet: technique and accuracy assessment. J. Geodynamics 34, 357-376.
Shuman, C., H. J. Zwally, B. Schutz, A. Brenner, J. DiMarzio, V. Schuedo, and H. Fricker. 2006. ICESat Antarctic elevation data: preliminary precision and accuracy assessment. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L07501, doi:10.1029/2005GL025227.
Zwally, H. J., A. C. Brenner, J. A. Major, T. V. Martin, and R. A. Bindschadler. 1990. Satellite radar altimetry over ice, Vol. 1. Processing and corrections of Seasat data over Greenland. NASA Reference Publication 1233.
Zwally, H. J. and A. C. Brenner. 2001. "Ice sheet dynamics and mass balance." In: Satellite Altimetry and Earth Science, L-L. Fu and A. Cazenave, Eds., Academic Press, Ch. 9, 351-369.
RELATED DATA COLLECTIONS
ICESat/GLAS Data at NSIDC
RELATED WEB SITES
ICESat Reference Orbit Ground Tracks
GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Elevation Data (GLA06)
CITING THESE DATA
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The following examples show how to cite the use of these data sets in a publication. The citation to use depends on which data set you use. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title and version (if applicable), publisher information (NSIDC), and indicate digital media distribution.
DiMarzio, J., A. Brenner, R. Schutz, C. A. Shuman, and H. J. Zwally. 2007. GLAS/ICESat 500 m laser altimetry digital elevation model of Antarctica. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
DiMarzio, J., A. Brenner, R. Schutz, C. A. Shuman, and H. J. Zwally. 2007. GLAS/ICESat 1 km laser altimetry digital elevation model of Greenland. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.