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Operation IceBridge
NASA's Operation IceBridge Aircraft Missions
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Tools
Data Tools
This page lists featured tools and web services that can be used to access and work with various data from this collection. Additional tools and resources for working with these data may be found in the Help Articles section of this collection.
Get Data
Quickly download a few files using a web browser, or access data through a command-line utility such as WGET.
Search & Discover
Get Data
Filter files before downloading based on date, spatial area, or file name. Choose from various download options, such as Python script. Export bounding boxes as a GeoJSON.
Visualize
Get Data
Search & Discover
Search, visualize, and download data from NSIDC's long-term IceBridge archive. The portal provides flight lines, map-based granule extents, browse images (where available), Northern and Southern Hemisphere polar views, spatial and temporal filters, and keyword search options.
Visualize
Search & Discover
Get Data
Search and order data from all NASA DAACs using spatial and temporal filters in a map interface. Reformatting, reprojecting, and subsetting options are available for some data sets.
Type: Web Application
Get Data
Search & Discover
earthaccess is a python library to search and access NASA Earth science data with just a few lines of code.
Supported software languages:
Python
Get Data
Programmatically request selected data products through NSIDC's API. Bulk download using spatial and temporal filters, or incorporate data access commands into code/scripts as needed.
Visualize
GIS
Customize
Access georegistered images for data layers from select NSIDC data products. Use OGC protocols (WMS, WFS, and WCS) through HTTP URLs or OGC-compatible clients (ArcMap, QGIS, Google Earth) to access the data.
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
reprojection
spatial subsetting
temporal subsetting
variable subsetting
Output Formats:
PNG
GEOTIFF
GIF
HDF-EOS
JPEG
KML
NETCDF-4
PNG
Visualize
Explore contents of HDF4 and HDF5 files, including file structure, metadata, and parameter values.
Type: Downloadable Software
Output Formats:
ASCII
HDF4
HDF5
Visualize
Get Data
Search & Discover
Customize
Compare decades of harmonized data across pre-IceBridge, IceBridge, ICESat/GLAS, and ICESat-2 data products. Access and visualize data using a download widget, map-based customization, API code examples, and other tools.
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
reprojection
spatial subsetting
temporal subsetting
Visualize
Customize
Reformat and/or visualize LVIS level 1B and 2 data products. Readers are available in C and IDL.
Supported software languages:
C
IDL
Type: Downloadable Software
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
Output Formats:
ASCII
Visualize
Customize
Reformat and/or visualize IceBridge data products using readers available in multiple programming languages.
Supported software languages:
Matlab
C
IDL
Python
Perl
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
Output Formats:
ASCII
BINARY
PNG
Visualize
Analyze
Visualize georeferenced arrays in NetCDF, HDF and GRIB formats. Plot data on global or regional maps, choosing from multiple map projections. Overlay continent outlines or masks.
Type: Downloadable Software
Output Formats:
ASCII
CSV
GIF
HDF-EOS2
HDF-EOS5
HDF4
HDF5
JPEG
KML
NETCDF-3
NETCDF-4
PNG
TIFF
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