Lake Ice 2024

In February/March 2024, the NASA LVIS Facility was flown over Lake Huron to investigate lake ice. Flights were based out of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, VA. Flight trajectories and coverage maps are available on this page.


Use the python code posted here to view the data products from this mission.

LVIS Mission Information

LVIS Lidar
Instrument: LVIS-F
Flight Platform: NASA P-3 Orion
Nominal Flight Altitude: 23,000'
Nominal LVIS Swath Width: 1.4 km (200 mrad)
Nominal Footprint Diameter: 16 m
LVIS Cameras
Camera Model: PhaseOne iXM-RS150F Canon EOS 5D Mk II
Lens Models: Rodenstock 180 mm Carl Zeiss
Makro-Planar 2/100 ZE
Image Resolution: 150 Megapixels
14,204px x 10,652px		 21 Megapixels
5,616 px x 3,744 px
Nominal Resolution: 2.1 km x 1.4 km (15 cm/px) 1.6 km x 1.1 km (30 cm/px)
Nominal Overlap: 67% 67%
Data Product: LVIS_CAM150MP LVIS_CAM020MP

Resources

Airports

  • KWAL - Wallops Flight Facility (Wallops Island, VA, USA)

Data Products

LVIS Data Products Format Download Location
Flight TrajectoriesKMZThis page


View MJD Date Region / Remarks GPS Flight Trajectory L2 Gridded KMZs† Photo KMZs†
60366 27 Feb 2024 Lake Huron [kmz]
60370 01 Mar 2024 Lake Huron [kmz]

†Warning: Gridded and Photo KMZ files are large and may take some time to load in Google Earth