Landsat 8 Ice Speed of Antarctica (LISA), Version 1
Data set id:
NSIDC-0733
DOI: 10.7265/nxpc-e997
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Initial release

Overview

This data set is a compilation of Antarctic ice flow velocity mappings generated from pairs of panchromatic images acquired by the Operation Land Imager (OLI) aboard the Landsat 8 satellite. This effort is part of the Global Land Ice Velocity Extraction from Landsat (GoLIVE) project.
Parameter(s):
ICE VELOCITY
Platform(s):
LANDSAT-8
Sensor(s):
OLI
Data Format(s):
GeoTIFF
Temporal Coverage:
  • 1 July 2013 to 30 April 2017
Temporal Resolution:
  • 16 day
Spatial Resolution:
  • 750 m
  • 750 m
Spatial Reference System(s):
  • WGS 84 / Antarctic Polar Stereographic
    EPSG:3031
Spatial Coverage:
  • Northern latitude
    -60
    Southern latitude
    -90
    Eastern longitude
    180
    Western longitude
    -180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

Data Access

FTP File System Location
ftp://ftp.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/nsidc0733_landsat_ice_speed_v01/
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