MEaSUREs Greenland Monthly Image Mosaics from MODIS, Version 1
Data set id:
NSIDC-0724
DOI: 10.5067/6L166FFRPCPP
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, consists of monthly image mosaics of the Greenland coastline and ice sheet periphery constructed from composited MODIS imagery.
See Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) for related data.
Parameter(s):
ICE EDGESSURFACE MORPHOLOGY
Platform(s):
Aqua, Terra
Sensor(s):
MODIS
Data Format(s):
GeoTIFF
Temporal Coverage:
1 March 2008 to 30 September 2016
Temporal Resolution:
- 1 month
Spatial Resolution:
- 100 m
- 500 m
- 100 m
- 500 m
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North
EPSG:3413
Spatial Coverage:
N:
85
S:
57
E:
11
W:
-109
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 is a monthly image mosaic of Greenland, which shows the surface morphology, and the glacier ice edge at the calving fronts in fjords. The mosaic is derived from high-pass filtered MODIS Band 1 (red light) images. Credit: NASA MEaSUREs GrIMP Data: NASA MODIS
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