The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) will add 4 IceBridge data sets to NASA Earthdata Cloud on 14 August 2025, completing the migration of all IceBridge collections to the cloud platform. Earthdata Cloud is NASA’s archive of Earth observations, hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). While these data sets will continue to be available via their current URLs and workflows, these legacy access methods will be retired soon. Users are therefore encouraged to update their direct download workflows, including any data download scripts, to use the new Earthdata Cloud HTTPS location after 14 August 2025.
The Earthdata Cloud HTTPS data access URL will be available on each data set landing page using the HTTPS File System link under Data Access & Tools after the cloud publication date. When data are added to Earthdata Cloud, the legacy HTTPS File System URL on the data set landing page will be replaced with the Earthdata Cloud HTTPS URL. However, legacy HTTPS URLs will still be available in the Programmatic Data Access Guide at https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/help-center/programmatic-data-access-guide.
Please note, newly ingested data may appear on the legacy HTTPS File System a few hours before becoming available on the new Earthdata Cloud HTTPS File System. In rare cases, data may take up to 2 days to become available in Earthdata Cloud.
The NSIDC DAAC User Services Office currently supports both direct data download from Earthdata Cloud HTTPS and basic access to our AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. For more details on the access options, please see:
https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/help-center/nasa-earthdata-cloud-data-access-guide
The following final IceBridge data sets will be available 14 August 2025 through cloud services:
IceBridge DMS L3 Ames Stereo Pipeline Orthorectified Images, Version 1
https://nsidc.org/data/iodim3/versions/1
IceBridge DMS L3 Ames Stereo Pipeline Photogrammetric DEM, Version 1
https://nsidc.org/data/iodem3/versions/1
IceBridge LVIS L0 Raw Ranges, Version 1
https://nsidc.org/data/ilvis0/versions/1
IceBridge DMS L1B Geolocated and Orthorectified Images, Version 1
https://nsidc.org/data/iodms1b/versions/1