Data Announcement
  • Ice shelves

Data set update: MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) Digital Elevation Model from GeoEye and WorldView Imagery, Version 1

New data access options are available for the MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) Digital Elevation Model from GeoEye and WorldView Imagery, Version 1 data set, accessible from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). The data access location for this data set has changed. Users accessing this data set through a script will need to update accordingly. The new data access URL is: https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/MEASURES/NSIDC-0715.001/.

This data set is part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program. It consists of an enhanced resolution digital elevation model (DEM) for the Greenland Ice Sheet. The DEM is derived from sub-meter resolution, panchromatic stereoscopic imagery collected by the GeoEye-1, WorldView 1, WorldView 2 and WorldView 3 satellites operated by DigitalGlobe Inc.

Data set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/H0KUYVF53Q8M