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Description

This data set contains surface elevation data over Greenland, Alaska, and Antarctica, measured by the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS), an airborne lidar scanning laser altimeter. The data were collected as part of NASA Operation IceBridge funded campaigns.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
AIRCRAFT ,
B-200 ,
C-130 ,
DC-8 ,
G-V ,
HU-25C ,
P-3B ,
RQ-4
Instruments
ALTIMETERS ,
LASERS ,
LVIS
Projects
2009_AN_NASA ,
2009_GR_NASA ,
2010_AN_NASA ,
2010_GR_NASA ,
2011_AN_NASA ,
2011_GR_NASA ,
2012_GR_NASA ,
2013_GR_NASA ,
2014_AK_ARISE ,
2015_AN_NASA ,
LVIS ,
OIB
Spatial Extent

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

,

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

Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Location
ANTARCTICA ,
ARCTIC ,
ARCTIC
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2009-04-14 to 2015-10-31
Temporal Resolution
Varies
Concept ID
C3154036182-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1546
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Terrain Elevation

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.

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Blair, J., & Hofton, M. (2010). IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/OIKFGJNBM6OO Date Accessed: 2026-09-11

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Improving satellite waveform altimetry measurements with a probabilistic relaxation algorithm Shu, Song, Liu, Hongxing, Frappart, Frederic, Kang, Emily Lei, Yang, Bo, Xu, Min, Huang, Yan, Wu, Bin, Yu, Bailang, Wang, Shujie, Beck, Richard, Hinkel, Kenneth Terrain Elevation
Antarctic ice shelf thickness change from multimission lidar mapping Sutterley, Tyler C., Markus, Thorsten, Neumann, Thomas A., van den Broeke, Michiel, van Wessem, J. Melchior, Ligtenberg, Stefan R. M. Ice Velocity, Grounding Line, Basins, Coastline, Ice Shelves, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Terrain Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Accuracy assessment and waveform analysis of CryoSat-2 SARIn mode data over Antarctica Wang, Fang, Bamber, Jonathan L., Yang, Shuangbao, Cheng, Xiao, Liu, Shubin, Zhang, Youzhi, Chi, Yunping Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Terrain Elevation
Ice sheet elevation mapping and change detection with the ice, cloud and land elevation satellite-2 Csatho, B. M., Schenk, A. F., Neumann, T. Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Ice Sheets, Reflectance, Terrain Elevation
Comparing coincident elevation and freeboard from IceBridge and five different CryoSat-2 retrackers Yi, Donghui, Kurtz, Nathan, Harbeck, Jeremy, Kwok, Ron, Hendricks, Stefan, Ricker, Robert Freeboard, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Roughness, Sea Ice Elevation, Snow Depth, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, RADAR IMAGERY, Sea Ice Elevation, Snow Cover, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Sensor Counts
Connected subglacial lake drainage beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica Smith, Benjamin E., Gourmelen, Noel, Huth, Alexander, Joughin, Ian Terrain Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness, Ice Velocity
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