MEaSUREs Antarctic Boundaries for IPY 2007-2009 from Satellite Radar, Version 2
Data set id:
NSIDC-0709
DOI: 10.5067/AXE4121732AD
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Major changes for Version 2 include:
Minor changes include:
- Added the basins IMBIE 2016 and refined
- Updated and expanded the attribute lists
Minor changes include:
- Changed grounding lines for Crosson/Dotson ice shelves based on Sentinel-1A
- Added 15 new small ice shelves
- Added missing ice rises on Larsen-C, Riiser-Larsen, Quar, Atka, Fimbul, Crosson, Borchgrevink, Beaudouin, and Pine Island ice shelves
- Fixed an issue with Wordie ice shelf boundaries (Cape Jeremy basin)
- Fixed an issue with Larsen A ice shelf, Drygalski glacier
- Fixed small gaps between polygons
- Updated names of the ice shelves (each polygon has a specific name)
- Removed grounded polygon from IceBoundaries (provided by GroundingLine_Antarctica shapefile)
Overview
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides maps of Antarctic ice shelves, Antarctic basins, and the Antarctic coastline. The maps are assembled from 2008-2009 ice-front data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) ALOS PALSAR and European Space Agency's ENVISAT ASAR data, acquired during International Polar Years 2007-2009 (IPY); the InSAR-based grounding line data (MEaSUREs Antarctic Grounding Line from Differential Satellite Radar Interferometry), augmented with other grounding line sources; the Antarctic ice velocity map (MEaSUREs InSAR-Based Antarctica Ice Velocity Map); and the Bedmap-2 DEM.
See Antarctic Ice Sheet Velocity and Mapping Data for related data.
Parameter(s):
BASINSCOASTLINEGROUNDING LINEICE SHELVES
Platform(s):
ALOS, AQUA, COSMO-SKYMED, ENVISAT, ERS-1, ERS-2, LANDSAT-8, RADARSAT-1, RADARSAT-2, SENTINEL-1A, TERRA
Sensor(s):
ASAR, C-SAR, MODIS, OLI, PALSAR, SAR
Data Format(s):
GeoTIFF, BMP, Shapefile
Temporal Coverage:
7 February 1992 to 31 December 2015
Temporal Resolution:
- 24 year
Spatial Resolution:
- Not Specified
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84 / Antarctic Polar Stereographic
EPSG:3031
Spatial Coverage:
N:
-60
S:
-90
E:
180
W:
-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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Sample Data Image
Image
This map delineates the shapefiles available in this data set. Ice shelf masks are indicated by blue stripes. Regions are separated with lines: red for East Antarctica, green for West Antarctica, and blue for the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: NASA MEaSUREs AIV Data: JAXA, ESA, BAS
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