National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Goddard Space Flight Center

Greenland

Greenland April 2022

Pre-IceBridge 2007

Canada and Alaska

Africa

South Africa 2023

Antarctica

United States

United States 2018/19

East Coast 2009

Western States 2008

Sierra Nevada 2006

Florida Gulf Coast 2005

East Coast 2003

East/West Coasts 1999

Costa Rica

Costa Rica 2005

CR & Panama 1998

French Guiana

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Recent News

LVIS featured on #ScienceInSeconds

28 Jul 2021

Dr. Michelle Hofton was interviewed for NASA Associate Administrator Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen's Twitter update during the 2021 GEDI Calibration/Validation campaign!

Greenland data available at NSIDC

14 Jun 2018

LVIS Level 1B and 2 data products from Operation IceBridge Greenland 2017 are now available at NSIDC. Links are now available here!

ABoVE data available at NSIDC

9 May 2018

LVIS Level 1B and 2 data products from ABoVE 2017 are now available at NSIDC, and the IceBridge 2017 data products have been sent out. Take a look here!

ABoVE data sent to NSIDC

8 Mar 2018

LVIS data from ABoVE 2017 has been sent to NSIDC. As soon as the data is available, links will be posted here!

ARISE and IceBridge 2014, Arctic

LVIS Mission Information

LVIS Lidar
Instrument Version:
Flight Platform:	NASA C-130
Nominal Flight Altitude:	28,000'
Nominal LVIS Swath Width:
Nominal LVIS Footprint Diameter:

LVIS Camera	Camera 1	Camera 2
Camera Model:	Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Lens Model:	Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM	Canon EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM
Image Resolution:	22.1 Megapixels 5760px x 3840px
Nominal Resolution:	6.1km x 4.1km 1.1m/px	23.0km x 15.3km 4.0m/px
Nominal Overlap:	90%	95%

Resources

Data Products

LVIS Data Products	Format	Download Location
Flight Trajectories	KMZ	This page
LVIS L1A Camera Imagery	JPG*	Coming Soon
LVIS L1B Geolocated Waveforms	HDF, LDS 1.0x	NSIDC¹, NASA EarthData
LVIS L2 Elevation and Height Products	ASCII TXT, LDS 1.0x	NSIDC¹, NASA EarthData

*Image position and attitude embedded in exif data.

¹ At NSIDC, search for date ranges 01 Sep 2014 through 31 Oct 2014

Arctic 2014

Display	MJD	Date	Region / Remarks	Platform	Flight Trajectory
	56904	04 Sep 2014	Flight1	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56905	05 Sep 2014	Flight2 - 140 W Line	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56906	06 Sep 2014	Flight3	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56907	07 Sep 2014	Flight4 - CERES GridBox	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56909	09 Sep 2014	Flight5 - CERES GridBox	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56910	10 Sep 2014	Flight6 - MIZ Lawnmower	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56911	11 Sep 2014	Flight7 - CERES GridBox	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56913	13 Sep 2014	Flight8 - CERES GridBox	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56915	15 Sep 2014	Flight9 - CERES GridBox	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56916	16 Sep 2014	Flight10 - Radiation Wall	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56917	17 Sep 2014	Flight11 - CERES GridBox	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56918	18 Sep 2014	Flight12 - SeaIce Albedo/Cryosat	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56919	19 Sep 2014	Flight13 - Radiation Wall	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56921	21 Sep 2014	Flight14 - Radiation Wall	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56924	21 Sep 2014	Flight15 - GridBox TOA	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
	56932	02 Oct 2014	Flight16 - Calibration	NASA C-130	[JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp]
		Fall 2014	All ARISE 2014 Flights	NASA C-130	[kmz] [shp]