MEaSUREs ITS_LIVE Regional Glacier and Ice Sheet Surface Velocities, Version 1
Data set id:
NSIDC-0776
DOI: 10.5067/6II6VW8LLWJ7
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
This data set from the Inter-Mission Time Series of Land Ice Velocity and Elevation (ITS_LIVE) project, part of NASA's Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program, consists of regionally compiled, mean annual surface velocities for major glacier-covered regions, derived from Landsat 4, 5, 7, and 8 imagery. Data are available from 1985 to 2018. Data availability is significantly limited prior to 2013 due to image scarcity and low image quality; however annual coverage is nearly complete for the years following the Landsat 8 launch in 2013.
Parameter(s):
ICE VELOCITY
Platform(s):
LANDSAT-4, LANDSAT-5, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-8
Sensor(s):
ETM+, OLI, TM
Data Format(s):
netCDF-4
Temporal Coverage:
1 January 1985 to 31 December 2018
Temporal Resolution:
- 1 year
Spatial Resolution:
- 240 m
- 120 m
- 240 m
- 120 m
Spatial Reference System(s):
N/A
N/A
Spatial Coverage:
N:
45.93
S:
24.64
E:
104.29
W:
65.36
N:
-45.66
S:
-55.41
E:
-68.55
W:
-74.52
N:
81.47
S:
70.35
E:
106.57
W:
-5.3
N:
67.18
S:
62.91
E:
-13.41
W:
-24.54
N:
81.62
S:
58.67
E:
8.23
W:
-90.17
N:
84.09
S:
61.62
E:
-50.14
W:
-109.69
N:
62.23
S:
47.23
E:
-107.65
W:
-159.45
N:
-57.62
S:
-90
E:
127.41
W:
-128.81
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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