Delivery of new Suomi NPP data ceases on Nov. 2, 2026. Users should transition to alternative products.Suomi NPP data announcement
Migration to Consolidated Ingest and Archive will interrupt data ingestion at PO.DAAC, ASF DAAC, and GES DISC on Oct. 28-30, 2026.Read more
Description
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides comprehensive high-resolution mapping of grounding lines in Antarctica from February 1992 through November 2025. The data were derived by applying differential satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (DInSAR) to SAR data acquired by various space-based platforms.
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
Citation Copied
Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., & Scheuchl, B. (2016). MEaSUREs Antarctic Grounding Line from Differential Satellite Radar Interferometry, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/IKBWW4RYHF1Q Date Accessed: 2026-10-21
@misc{rignot_mouginot_scheuchl_2016,
title={MEaSUREs Antarctic Grounding Line from Differential Satellite Radar Interferometry, Version 2},
url={http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0498/versions/2},
DOI={10.5067/IKBWW4RYHF1Q},
publisher={NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center},
author={Rignot, Eric and Mouginot, Jeremie and Scheuchl, Bernd},
year={2016},
}
Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., & Scheuchl, B. (2016). MEaSUREs Antarctic Grounding Line from Differential Satellite Radar Interferometry, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/IKBWW4RYHF1Q Date Accessed: 2026-10-21
Rignot, Eric, et al. “MEaSUREs Antarctic Grounding Line from Differential Satellite Radar Interferometry, Version 2.” NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, 2016, https://doi.org/10.5067/IKBWW4RYHF1Q. Date Accessed: 2026-10-21
Get help with NASA Earth science data, datasets, tools, services, and metadata on the Earthdata Forum. Experienced staff in the data user community review and answer questions.
Ross, Neil, Sanderson, Rebecca J., Kulessa, Bernd, Siegert, Martin, Paxman, Guy J. G., Nichols, Keir A., Siegfried, Matthew R., Jamieson, Stewart S. R., Bentley, Michael J., Jordan, Tom A., Batchelor, Christine L., Small, David, Eisen, Olaf, Winter, Kate, Bingham, Robert G., Callard, S. Louise, Carr, Rachel, Dow, Christine F., Fricker, Helen A., Hill, Emily, Hills, Benjamin H., Hofstede, Coen, Jeofry, Hafeez, Napoleoni, Felipe, Sauthoff, Wilson
Johnson, Joanne S., Nichols, Keir A., Riley, Teal R., Venturelli, Ryan A., Hodgson, Dominic A., Balco, Greg, Hall, Brenda, Smith, James A., Woodward, John