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MEaSUREs Greenland Annual Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaics from SAR and Landsat V003

Creator: NSIDC_CPRD
Keywords: Ice Velocity

NSIDC-0725

Version

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5067/C2GFA20CXUI4

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Center/Project

National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC DAAC)

Data at a Glance

Data Format

GeoTIFF, JPEG, Shapefile

Spatial Extent

N: 83 S: 60 E: -14 W: -75

Spatial Resolution

200 Meters x 200 Meters

Location

GREENLAND ,

ARCTIC ,

POLAR

Temporal Extent

2014-12-01 to 2020-11-30

Temporal Resolution

1 Year

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Description

This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, contains annual ice velocity mosaics for the Greenland Ice Sheet derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data obtained by the German Space Agency's TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X (TSX/TDX) and the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-1A and -1B satellites, and from the US Geological Survey's Landsat 8 optical imagery for years 2015 to 2020.

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

Version Description

Version updates include: -Reprocessed with a variation of DEM NSIDC-0715 corrected to address a 15 m horizontal shift -Cloud optimized GeoTIFFS created with GDAL 3.2.1 -Extended temporal coverage

Product Summary

Platforms

LANDSAT-8 ,

SENTINEL-1A ,

SENTINEL-1B ,

TDX ,

TSX

Instruments

OLI ,

C-SAR ,

SAR ,

X-SAR

Spatial Extent

N: 83 S: 60 E: -14 W: -75

Spatial Resolution

200 Meters x 200 Meters

Spatial Reference System(s)

Multiple EPSG codes (see User Guide)

Location

GREENLAND ,

ARCTIC ,

POLAR

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Temporal Extent

2014-12-01 to 2020-11-30

Temporal Resolution

1 Year

Concept ID

C3298037305-NSIDC_CPRD

Data State

DEPRECATED

Number of Files/Granules

Processing Level

Published

2021-06-24

Science Keywords

Ice Velocity

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Joughin, I. (2021). MEaSUREs Greenland Annual Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaics from SAR and Landsat, Version 3 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/C2GFA20CXUI4 Date Accessed: 2026-06-05

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

MEaSUREs Greenland Annual Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaics from SAR and Landsat, Version 3 User Guide

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Publications Citing This Dataset

Title	Year Sort ascending	Author	Topic
Weekly to monthly terminus variability of Greenland's marine-terminating outlet glaciers	2023	Black, Taryn E., Joughin, Ian	Radar Backscatter, Glacier Extent, Snow Melt, Snow Melt, Ice Velocity
Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers	2022	Chudley, Thomas R., Howat, Ian M., Yadav, Bidhyananda, Noh, Myoung-Jong	Ice Velocity, Land Ice/Ocean Classification, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation