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  • The NSIDC DAAC is retiring access to its legacy, on-premises data archive and transitioning to the NASA Earthdata Cloud as the primary data archive. View planned retirement dates at https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/help-center/when-will-legacy-premises-archive-be-retired.

LVIS Classic L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms, Version 1
Data set id:
LVISC1B
DOI: 10.5067/O8UCOA2D6ZE3
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Initial release

Overview

This data set contains Level-1B geolocated return energy waveforms collected by the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) Facility, an imaging lidar and camera sensor suite.
Parameter(s):
SENSOR COUNTS
Platform(s):
G-III, G-V
Sensor(s):
LVIS
Data Format(s):
HDF5
Temporal Coverage:
21 May 2019 to present
Temporal Resolution:
  • Varies
Spatial Resolution:
  • varies
  • varies
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84
EPSG:4326

ITRF2008
EPSG:5332
Spatial Coverage:
N:
72
S:
-3
E:
17
W:
-168
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

Data Access & Tools

A free NASA Earthdata Login account is required to access these data. Learn More

Help Articles

General Questions & FAQs

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) is migrating its primary data access from its legacy, on-premises archive to the NASA Earthdata Cloud.

How to Articles

Many NSIDC DAAC data sets can be accessed using 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.
This article explains how to find LVIS science products in NASA's Earthdata Search using filenames from the exploratory tools and KMZ files available on the NASA LVIS campaigns webpage.