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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
0
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. (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: 2026-05-14

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