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Description

This data set, part of the NASA's Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides a complete 15 m resolution image mosaic of the Greenland ice sheet, derived from USGS Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery and Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) RADARSAT-1 imagery from the years 1999 to 2002. Additional bands (some at 30 m resolution) are provided for each tile in the mosaic and are useful for understanding surface properties, such as snow grain size, bedrock outcrops, mapping layering in the snow, and blue ice or lake-filled regions, during the spring and summer months. The panchromatic (band 8) mosaic provides the highest-resolution view of the ice sheet surface at 15 m, resolving topographic features, large crevasses, and other geophysical structures.

See <a href="http://nsidc.org/data/measures/gimp">Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP)</a> for related data.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
LANDSAT-7 ,
RADARSAT-1
Instruments
ETM+ ,
SAR
Spatial Extent

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

Spatial Resolution
15 Meters x 15 Meters
30 Meters x 30 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
1999-06-30 to 2002-09-04
Temporal Resolution
3 Month
Concept ID
C3298001963-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
421
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Surface Morphology

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

Howat, I. (2017). MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) 2000 Image Mosaic, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/4RNTRRE4JCYD Date Accessed: 2026-06-14

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TermPicks: a century of Greenland glacier terminus data for use in scientific and machine learning applications Goliber, Sophie, Black, Taryn, Catania, Ginny, Lea, James M., Olsen, Helene, Cheng, Daniel, Bevan, Suzanne, Bjrk, Anders, Bunce, Charlie, Brough, Stephen, Carr, J. Rachel, Cowton, Tom, Gardner, Alex, Fahrner, Dominik, Hill, Emily, Joughin, Ian, Korsgaard, Niels J., Luckman, Adrian, Moon, Twila, Murray, Tavi, Sole, Andrew, Wood, Michael, Zhang, Enze Surface Morphology, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation
The contribution of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland, to sea-level rise through 2100 constrained by recent observations of speedup and retreat Hillebrand, Trevor R., Hoffman, Matthew J., Perego, Mauro, Price, Stephen F., Howat, Ian M. Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation, Density, TEMPERATURE PROFILES, Salinity, Conductivity, Surface Morphology, Ice Velocity, TEMPERATURE PROFILES, Glacier Extent
Greenland liquid water discharge from 1958 through 2019 Mankoff, Kenneth D., Noel, Brice, Fettweis, Xavier, Ahlstrm, Andreas P., Colgan, William, Kondo, Ken, Langley, Kirsty, Sugiyama, Shin, van As, Dirk, Fausto, Robert S. Land Ice/Ocean Classification, Surface Morphology, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation
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