Instructions for NASA Science Report Submissions

This page contains instructions for Operation IceBridge flight managers using the NASA Science Report submissions interface.

The following two tag-delimited fields must be included in the NASA Science Report "NSIDC Information" text box.

1. Campaign region. To identify the campaign region for the flight, include the following in the "NSIDC Information" text box:
   [oib_region]
   XX
   [/oib_region]
   
   Where: XX is the two-letter abbreviation for the campaign:
   

   Table 1. Campaign Abbreviations and Descriptions

   Campaign Abbreviation	Description
   GR	IceBridge Arctic campaigns, (including UTIG flights in the Arctic, and any non-UAF flights originating from Fairbanks)
   AN	IceBridge Antarctic campaigns, including ICECAP
   AK	All University of Alaska flights mapping Alaskan glaciers

   
   
2. Operational instruments. Include the following in the "NSIDC Information" text box:
   [operational_instruments]
   Accumulation Radar
   AIRGrav
   ATM
   AVOCET
   BGM-3
   CAMBOT
   CMG-GT-1A
   CS-3
   DACOM
   DLH
   DMS
   FGM
   GEOMET 823A
   HF Radar
   HiCARS1
   HiCARS2
   KT19
   KTC
   Ku-Band Radar
   LVIS
   LVIS Camera
   LVIS-GH
   LVIS POS/AV
   MCoRDS
   Narrow Swath ATM
   NASA POS/AV
   NCAR G-V Instruments
   NSERC Onboard Data
   PARIS
   PRS Altimeter
   Sigma Space Lidar
   Sigma Space Prototype
   Sky View Camera
   SLR
   Snow Radar
   UAF Camera
   UAF GPS/IMU
   UAF Profiler
   UAF Scanner
   USB4000 Hemi
   USB4000 Tele
   UTIG GPS
   UTIG IMU
   UTIG Riegl
   UTIG RTNav
   WAS
   WISE
   ZLS
   [/operational_instruments]

Copy and paste the list above into the "NSIDC Information" text box and delete the names of instruments that were not operational on the flight. An instrument is considered operational for the flight if it produced data that will be delivered to NSIDC. If the list is completely empty, NSIDC will assume that no data from the flight will be delivered.

Enter only one instrument per line, and use the above names exactly. Order is not important, but exact names are. NSIDC will use the instrument names to validate against our database of expected instrument names.

The following is a valid example of information included in the NASA Science Report "NSIDC Information" text box for the 2012 Antarctic campaign:

[oib_region]
AN
[/oib_region]

[operational_instruments]
DMS
NASA POS/AV
Ku-Band Radar
MCoRDS
Snow Radar
AIRGrav
NSERC Onboard Data
ATM
CAMBOT
Narrow Swath ATM
KT19
[/operational_instruments]

Contact NSIDC User Services if you have questions.

Page last updated: 06/13/13