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Options Available for Bulk Downloading Data from HTTPS with Earthdata Login There are a few options depending on the tools that you have available ... Read more |
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What is the Map Transformations Library (Mapx)? Mapx is a coordinate transformation library developed at NSIDC. The C ... Read more |
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Can I view virtual globe animations offline? Google earth tries to connect to the internet when viewing KMZ's. The ... Read more |
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How to access data using an FTP client To access data using an FTP client (e.g. FileZilla, Cyberduck, FireFTP ... Read more |
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FORTRAN I/O Samples Unsigned byte data in a two dimensional array program readplds ... Read more |
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FORTRAN Binary I/O Kenneth W. Knowles, National Snow & Ice Data Center There ... Read more |
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Subsetting and Reformatting with the NSIDC PyRS Tool The NSIDC Python Reformatting and Subsetting (PyRS) tool is a command ... Read more |
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A Mapping and Gridding Primer: Points, Pixels, Grids, and Cells Introduction Satellite remote sensing has made possible the ... Read more |
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Why are AMSR/ADEOS-II data only available for nine months? On 25 October 2003, at 8:49 a.m. (JST), JAXA discovered that ADEOS-II ... Read more |
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Are any higher-level AMSR/ADEOS-II products available? No, the AMSR/ADEOS-II L2A ... Read more |
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How do AMSR and AMSR-E improve upon previous passive microwave radiometers? First, the spatial resolution of AMSR/ADEOS-II and AMSR-E/Aqua data ... Read more |
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Is the Greenland Surface DEM provided in an alternative format? Yes. Attached to this article are the following Greenland Surface DEM ... Read more |
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How do I read the Greenland DEM in Fortran? Directions for reading the Bamber Greenland DEM, Ice Thickness, and ... Read more |
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How to import the Greenland DEM into ArcGIS Directions for Importing Bamber Greenland DEM, Ice Thickness, and ... Read more |
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How to import the Digital SAR Mosaic of Greenland into ArcGIS These are directions for importing the grnlnd_dem_wgs84.dat (a flat ... Read more |
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What are the polar stereographic and EASE-Grid projections? Which one should I use? The two grids are based on different map projections. The polar ... Read more |
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What are the polar stereographic and EASE-Grid projections? Which one should I use? The two grids are based on different map projections. The polar ... Read more |
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What is the difference between the NASA Team algorithm and the Bootstrap algorithm? For general analyses or creation of simple images, either algorithm ... Read more |
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What are the polar stereographic and EASE-Grid projections? Which one should I use? The two grids are based on different map projections. The polar ... Read more |
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What are the polar stereographic and EASE-Grid projections? Which one should I use? The two grids are based on different map projections. The polar ... Read more |
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I just want to see a picture of sea ice extent or concentration, or a plot of ice trends by month. Where should I look? The Sea Ice Index ... Read more |
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How to import the sea ice trends data into ArcGIS The following are instructions describing how to import "Sea Ice Trends ... Read more |
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How to import the near-real-time sea ice data into ArcGIS The following are instructions describing how to import "Near-Real-Time ... Read more |
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How to display and analyze the Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data The Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS ... Read more |
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How to import the NSIDC-0051 sea ice concentration data into ArcGIS The following are instructions describing how to import "Sea Ice ... Read more |
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What are the polar stereographic and EASE-Grid projections? Which one should I use? The two grids are based on different map projections. The polar ... Read more |
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Why use equal-area maps? Given the choices of either shape distortion or areal distortion or ... Read more |
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What are the polar stereographic and EASE-Grid projections? Which one should I use? The two grids are based on different map projections. The polar ... Read more |
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What do I use to convert Northern EASE-Grid to Global EASE-Grid? Assuming that the data that was produced conforms to the ML (25km) EASE ... Read more |
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What are the polar stereographic and EASE-Grid projections? Which one should I use? The two grids are based on different map projections. The polar ... Read more |
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What are the polar stereographic and EASE-Grid projections? Which one should I use? The two grids are based on different map projections. The polar ... Read more |
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How do I import EASE-Grid 2.0 snow cover and sea ice data into ArcGIS? This document describes how to import EASE-Grid 2.0 data files into ... Read more |
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How to import Global Monthly EASE-Grid SWE data products into ArcGIS The global, monthly SWE EASE-GRID products can be found at the ... Read more |
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How to Import EASE-Grid Sea Ice Age in to ArcGIS This article describes the actions to perform in order work with NSIDC- ... Read more |
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How to Import EASE-Grid Sea Ice Age in to ArcGIS This article describes the actions to perform in order work with NSIDC- ... Read more |
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What is the spatial extent of individual HMA DEMs? HMA DEMs cover portions of eleven countries. The products are created ... Read more |
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How can I search and order High Mountain Asia data with spatial and temporal filtering using Earthdata Search? Last updated: 2 January 2018 ... Read more |
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Why are the 2009 images 1-band, while the other images are 3-band? During the first campaign for this data set (2009 Antarctica), the ... Read more |
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How to use the IceBridge Portal There are two quickstart tutorials available here: ... Read more |
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How can I search for IceBridge data? 1. To see a listing of all the IceBridge data sets, visit the Data ... Read more |
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Do you have sample code to read GeoTiffs? Below you will find sample code in IDL and MatLab to read in a GeoTIFF ... Read more |
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How can I search and order MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps with spatial and temporal filtering using Earthdata Search?
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Are there open source tools available for the IMS dataset? Yes, one user of IMS has created and made available a suite of Python ... Read more |
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What if I need SNODAS data in real or neal-real time? NSIDC has scripts that run several times a day. If new SNODAS files are ... Read more |
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How can I find information about the model input for the SNODAS data set? NOHRSC provides/creates the data, we just archive it. If you have ... Read more |
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When visualizing SNODAS data, why is the image skewed? This is most likely due to a problem with Windows Winzip which corrupts ... Read more |
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How do I import SNODAS data into ArcGIS? Follow the steps below, which are also linked to from the ... Read more |
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How can I plot IMS-24km ASCII data using General Mapping Tools (GMT)? There are two "tricks" to using this dataset with GMT: reading the data ... Read more |
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How to Import IMS ASCII Data Into ArcGIS This article describes the process for importing IMS ASCII data, in 1 ... Read more |
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What data subsetting, reformatting, and reprojection services are available for VIIRS data? The following table describes the data subsetting, reformatting, and ... Read more |
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How to convert GoLIVE NetCDF variables to GeoTIFF This How To guide will illustrate the function to perform in order to ... Read more |
