IceBridge Radar L3 Tomographic Ice Thickness, Version 1
Data set id:
IRTIT3
DOI: 10.5067/92SUAOLU6AP1
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Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
This data set contains Level-3 tomographic ice thickness measurements derived from data captured by the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS) instrument over areas including Greenland and Antarctica. The data were collected as part of NASA Operation IceBridge funded campaigns.
Parameter(s):
ICE THICKNESS
Platform(s):
DC-8, P-3B
Sensor(s):
MCoRDS
Data Format(s):
HDF5
Temporal Coverage:
20 November 2010 to 20 April 2013
Temporal Resolution:
- Varies
Spatial Resolution:
- 50
- 50
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84 / Antarctic Polar Stereographic
EPSG:3031
WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North
EPSG:3413
Spatial Coverage:
N:
83
S:
59
E:
-12
W:
-74
N:
-63
S:
-90
E:
180
W:
-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
Data Access & Tools
This data set has been retired. There is a more recent version of these data.
Documentation
Help Articles
How to Articles
Many NSIDC DAAC data sets can be accessed using the NSIDC DAAC's Data Access Tool. This tool provides the ability to search and filter data with spatial and temporal constraints using a map-based interface.Users have the option to
To convert HDF5 files into binary format you will need to use the h5dump utility, which is part of the HDF5 distribution available from the HDF Group. How you install HDF5 depends on your operating system.
All data from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) is directly accessible through our HTTPS file system using Wget or curl. This article provides basic command line instructions for accessing data using this method.