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- Greenland/Arctic Ocean
- ICESat-2 2022
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- IceBridge 2017
- IceBridge 2013
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- IceBridge 2009
- Pre-IceBridge 2007
- Canada and Alaska
- Africa
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- Lake Ice 2024
- GEDI 2021
- GEDI 2019
- United States 2018/19
- East Coast 2009
- Western States 2008
- Sierra Nevada 2006
- Florida Gulf Coast 2005
- Patuxent 2003
- East Coast 2003
- East/West Coasts 1999
- Costa Rica
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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!
GEDI 2019In May-June 2019, the NASA LVIS Facility and LVIS Classic were deployed to sites in the Southeastern United States as well as Central America as part of an airborne campaign to provide calibration and validation of the recently-launched Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) payload on the International Space Station. During the three week deployment of LVIS, a total of 5 flights were flown over diverse science targets based out of Ellington Field in Houston, TX. Flight trajectories and preliminary coverage maps are available on this page. Use the python code posted here to view the data products from this mission. |
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Data Products
LVIS Data Products | Format | Download Location |
Flight Trajectories | KMZ | This page |
Coverage Maps | KMZ | This page |
LVIS L1A Camera Imagery | JPG* | NSIDC1, NASA EarthData |
LVIS Classic L1B Geolocated Waveforms | HDF, LDS 2.0.3 | NSIDC1, NASA EarthData |
LVIS Classic L2 Elevation and Height Products | ASCII TXT, LDS 2.0.3 | NSIDC1, NASA EarthData |
LVIS Facility L1B Geolocated Waveforms | HDF, LDS 2.0.3 | NSIDC1, NASA EarthData |
LVIS Facility L2 Elevation and Height Products | ASCII TXT, LDS 2.0.3 | NSIDC1, NASA EarthData |
1 At NSIDC, search for date ranges 01 May 2019 through 31 Aug 2019
View | MJD | Date | Region / Remarks | GPS Flight Trajectory | Preliminary LVIS Coverage* (Key) | L2 Gridded KMZs† | Photo KMZs† | ||
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Classic | Facility | CAM1 | CAM2 | ||||||
58624 | 21 May 2019 | GEDI tracks in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico | [kmz] | [kmz] |
[ZG 1/2] [ZG 2/2] [RH95 1/2] [RH95 2/2] |
[kmz] | [kmz] | ||
58626 | 23 May 2019 | GEDI tracks in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida | [kmz] | [kmz] |
[ZG 1/2] [ZG 2/2] [RH95 1/2] [RH95 2/2] |
[kmz] | [kmz] | ||
58627 | 24 May 2019 | East-West mapping in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, | [kmz] | [kmz] |
[ZG 1/2] [ZG 2/2] [RH95 1/2] [RH95 2/2] |
[kmz] | [kmz] | ||
58632 | 29 May 2019 | Coweeta Forest Mapping in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and GEDI tracks in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana | [kmz] | [kmz] |
[ZG 1/2] [ZG 2/2] [RH95 1/2] [RH95 2/2] |
[kmz] | [kmz] | ||
58638 | 04 Jun 2019 | La Selva Biological Station Mapping and Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica, GEDI tracks in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua | [kmz] | [kmz] |
[ZG 1/2] [ZG 2/2] [RH95 1/2] [RH95 2/2] |
[kmz] | [kmz] | ||
58676 | 12 Jul 2019 | Houston to Yellowknife, GEDI Reference Ground Tracks | [kmz] | [kmz] |
[ZG 1/2] [ZG 2/2] [RH95 1/2] [RH95 2/2] |
[kmz] | [kmz] | ||
58702 | 06 Aug 2019 | Fairbanks to Salt Lake City, ICESat-2, Wind River, GEDI Reference Ground Tracks | [kmz] | [kmz] |
[ZG 1/2] [ZG 2/2] [RH95 1/2] [RH95 2/2] |
[kmz] | [kmz] | ||
58702 | 07 Aug 2019 | Salt Lake City to Houston, GEDI Reference Ground Tracks | [kmz] | [kmz] |
[ZG 1/2] [ZG 2/2] [RH95 1/2] [RH95 2/2] |
[kmz] | [kmz] | ||
May - Aug 2019 | All Flights | [kmz] |
*Preliminary LVIS Coverage locations are generated shortly after a flight and based on quicklook product information and are intended for general guidance only.
Key: Red=0%, Pink=1-10%, Orange=10-20%, Yellow=20-50%, Green=50-100%
†Warning: Gridded and Photo KMZ files are large and may take some time to load in Google Earth