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- Operation IceBridge
- ABoVE
- NSIDC
- GEDI
- GRACE
- University of Maryland
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!
IceBridge 2010, Greenland
In Spring 2010, the NASA LVIS was deployed to Greenland for NASA's Operation IceBridge Spring Campaign based from Thule. Multiple flights were flown over the icesheet including a mapping flight of the Rink Glacier in western Greenland and an underflight of the Cryosat sensor. Data were also collected during the transit to Greenland from Palmdale, CA over the western US, Canada, Alaska and the Arctic Ocean, though portions of the transit are affected by cloud cover.
Data are available in Level1B and Level2 formats. The Level1b data files contain the geolocated laser waveform data for each laser footprint. The Level2 data files contain elevations of reflecting surfaces, derived from the Level1b data. Level 2 files are much smaller and more manageable. For those users not familiar with waveform lidardata, we recommend that you start with the Level2 files before moving to the Level1b files (e.g., for context or to apply different algorithms). The Level1B data are in HDF5 and the Level2 data are in ascii.
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Data Products
| LVIS Data Products | Format | Download Location |
| Flight Trajectories | KMZ | This page |
| LVIS L1B Geolocated Waveforms | HDF, LDS 1.04 | NSIDC |
| LVIS L2 Elevation and Height Products | ASCII TXT, LDS 1.04 | NSIDC |
| Display | MJD | Date | Region / Remarks | Platform | Flight Trajectory |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55277 | 22 Mar 2010 | Alaska/Transit to Thule | DC-8 | [JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp] | |
| 55284 | 29 Mar 2010 | northwest Greenland | DC-8 | [JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp] | |
| 55295 | 09 Apr 2010 | Rink Glacier | DC-8 | [JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp] | |
| 55300 | 14 Apr 2010 | East-central Greenland | DC-8 | [JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp] | |
| 55306 | 20 Apr 2010 | Cryosat | DC-8 | [JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp] | |
| 55308 | 22 Apr 2010 | transit to Sondestrom | DC-8 | [JPEG] [PDF] [kmz] [shp] | |
| Mar - Apr 2010 | All Greenland 2010 Flights | DC-8 | [kmz] [shp] |
