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Description

This data set contains resampled and smoothed elevation measurements of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, and Greenland, Antarctic Peninsula, and West Antarctic region land ice surface acquired using the NASA Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrumentation. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns.

Version Description

The Version 2 data are in Comma Separated Value (CSV) ASCII format. A header has been added to the Version 2 data format. In Version 1, the data set consisted of pairs of files for each data segment: one data file and one summary file. The header of the Version 2 data file contains information that had appeared in the summary file, making the summary file redundant.

Product Summary

Platforms
C-130 ,
DC-8 ,
G-V ,
HU-25A ,
HU-25C ,
P-3B ,
WP-3D ORION
Instruments
ATM
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: 60 E: 180 W: -180

,

N: -53 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location
ARCTIC ,
ANTARCTICA ,
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2009-03-31 to 2019-11-20
Concept ID
C3188457014-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
58108
Processing Level
2
Published
Science Keywords
Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation ,
Ice Roughness

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Studinger, M. (2014). IceBridge ATM L2 Icessn Elevation, Slope, and Roughness, Version 2 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/CPRXXK3F39RV Date Accessed: 2026-01-24

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