• 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

Data Announcements

Notice to Users of AMSR-E, ICESat/GLAS, IceBridge, MODIS and NISE Data. The FTP location for accessing AMSR-E, ICESat/GLAS, IceBridge, MODIS, and NISE data changed in October from n4ftl01u.ecs.nasa
On 31 January 2013 the ICESat Project Science Team announced that a correction to ICESat surface elevation data products is necessary due to an error in the range determination from transmit-pulse