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Description

This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides velocity estimates determined from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data for major glacier outlet areas in Greenland, some of which have shown profound velocity changes over the MEaSUREs observation period. The InSAR Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps are produced from image pairs measured by the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) twin satellites TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X (TSX / TDX). The measurements in this data set are provided in addition to the ice sheet-wide data from the related data set, <a href="https://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0478">MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data</a>.

See <a href="https://nsidc.org/grimp">Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GrIMP)</a> for more related data.

Version Description

This version contains the following changes: -Updated temporal coverage -Use of GDAL 3.2.1 to create cloud optimized GeoTIFFs -Data reprocessed utilizing a corrected DEM. See user note in section 2.2.5

Product Summary

Platforms
TDX ,
TSX
Instruments
TDX-1 ,
X-SAR
Spatial Extent

N: 82 S: 60 E: -20 W: -70

Spatial Resolution
100 Meters x 100 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413)
Location
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2008-06-12 to 2023-09-20
Temporal Resolution
11 Day
Concept ID
C3291177466-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
4896
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Ice Velocity

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

Joughin, I., Howat, I., Smith, B., & Scambos, T. (2021). MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps from InSAR, Version 4 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/GQZQY2M5507Z Date Accessed: 2026-06-08

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OceanForcing and GlacierSpecific Factors Drive Differing Glacier Response Across the 69 N Boundary, East Greenland Brough, S., Carr, J. R., Ross, N., Lea, J. M. Density, TEMPERATURE PROFILES, Salinity, Conductivity, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation, Ice Velocity
Proper orthogonal decomposition of ice velocity identifies drivers of flow variability at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbr) Ashmore, David W., Mair, Douglas W. F., Higham, Jonathan E., Brough, Stephen, Lea, James M., Nias, Isabel J. Ice Velocity
Autonomous Repeat Image Feature Tracking (autoRIFT) and Its Application for Tracking Ice Displacement. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 749 Lei, Yang, Gardner, Alex, Agram, Piyush Ice Velocity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Observing traveling waves in glaciers with remote sensing: new flexible time series methods and application to Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbr) ... Riel, Bryan, Minchew, Brent, Joughin, Ian Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Velocity
Surges of Harald Moltke Brae, north-western Greenland: seasonal Muller, Lukas, Horwath, Martin, Scheinert, Mirko, Mayer, Christoph, Ebermann, Benjamin, Floricioiu, Dana, Krieger, Lukas, Rosenau, Ralf, Vijay, Saurabh RADAR IMAGERY, Sea Ice Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation, Ice Velocity
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