• The NSIDC DAAC is retiring access to its legacy, on-premises data archive and transitioning to the NASA Earthdata Cloud as the primary data archive. View planned retirement dates here.

ICESat/GLAS

Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation / Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
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Data Announcements

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User notice: OpenAltimetry GLAS/ICESat data access update

With the migration of GLAS/ICESat data to the NASA Earthdata Cloud, transformation services will be retired and no replacement services in the cloud are planned for GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Elevation Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH06). As a result, downloading a subsetted GLAH06 file in HDF5 format is no longer an option within the OpenAltimetry web application.
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Data set updates: New Earthdata Cloud access option for ICESat-2 and ICESat data sets

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has added 34 data sets from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 / Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ICESat-2/ATLAS) and Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation / Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (ICEsat/GLAS) satellite missions to NASA Earthdata Cloud.
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