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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 quarterly (three-month interval) ice velocity mosaics for the Greenland Ice Sheet. This data set is derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, obtained by TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X and Sentinel-1A and -1B, and from optical imagery acquired by Landsat 8 and Landsat 9.

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

Version Description

* Improved correction for submergence/emergence velocity using an average of RACMO2.3 and MAR3.12 SMB for the period from 1958 to 2021 * Calibration improved by using an improved balance velocity estimate, computed as the average of RACMO2.3 and MAR3.12, and by excluding GPS points >2000 m from the 1990s. * Solid Earth tides corrected using PySolid (https://github.com/insarlab/PySolid) * Includes Landsat 9 data from 2022 onward * Landsat-specific data files now designated by “LS” in the file name (instead of “LS8” as in previous versions).

Product Summary

Platforms
LANDSAT-8 ,
LANDSAT-9 ,
Sentinel-1A ,
Sentinel-1B ,
TDX ,
TSX
Instruments
OLI ,
OLI-2 ,
C-SAR ,
X-SAR
Spatial Extent

N: 83 S: 58.5 E: 8.32 W: -90.9

Spatial Resolution
200 Meters x 200 Meters
Location
GREENLAND ,
ARCTIC ,
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2014-12-01 to 2024-11-30
Concept ID
C3297893512-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
120
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. (2023). MEaSUREs Greenland Quarterly Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaics from SAR and Landsat, Version 5 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/V5KW64S63OSN Date Accessed: 2026-01-19

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