Data Announcement
  • Ice shelves

New Updates for MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps from Optical Images

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) would like to announce new updates for MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps from Optical Images, Version 2. The updates include the following:

  • Temporal coverage expanded to 1985-2016 using data from Landsat 4 and 5
  • A more aggressive filtering method was applied to remove the following small, isolated clusters of data:
    • Ecoast-62.10N: OPT_E62.10N_2003-09, OPT_E62.10N_2003-10, OPT_E62.10N_2004-09, OPT_E62.10N_2004-10
    • Ecoast-64.65N: OPT_E64.65N_2011-09, OPT_E64.65N_2011-10
  • Spatial coverage was increased by 24 new grids

DOI: 10.5067/VM5DZ20MYF5C