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IceBridge ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength with Waveforms V001

Creator: NSIDC_CPRD
Keywords: Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation,Sensor Counts

ILATMW1B

Version

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5067/EZQ5U3R3XWBS

Citation

Center/Project

National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC DAAC)

Data at a Glance

Data Format

HDF5

Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: 60 E: 180 W: -180

N: -53 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location

ARCTIC ,

ANTARCTICA ,

GREENLAND

Temporal Extent

2017-07-17 to 2019-11-20

Temporal Resolution

Varies

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

GEODETIC

Description

This data set contains spot elevation measurements with corresponding waveforms of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, and Greenland, Antarctic Peninsula, and West Antarctic region ice surface acquired using the NASA Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrumentation. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms

C-130 ,

DC-8 ,

G-V ,

HU-25A ,

HU-25C ,

P-3B ,

WP-3D ORION

Instruments

ATM

Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: 60 E: 180 W: -180

N: -53 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location

ARCTIC ,

ANTARCTICA ,

GREENLAND

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

GEODETIC

Temporal Extent

2017-07-17 to 2019-11-20

Temporal Resolution

Varies

Concept ID

C3188457341-NSIDC_CPRD

Data State

COMPLETE

Number of Files/Granules

27596

Processing Level

Published

2018-04-05

Science Keywords

Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation ,

Sensor Counts

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.

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Studinger, M. (2018). IceBridge ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength with Waveforms, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/EZQ5U3R3XWBS Date Accessed: 2026-05-02

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

IceBridge ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength with Waveforms, Version 1 User Guide

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

Publications Citing This Dataset

Title	Year Sort ascending	Author	Topic
Understanding biases in ICESat-2 data due to subsurface scattering using Airborne Topographic Mapper waveform data	2025	Smith, Benjamin E., Studinger, Michael, Sutterley, Tyler, Fair, Zachary, Neumann, Thomas	Snow Grain Size, Surface Morphology, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Sensor Counts, Sea Ice Elevation
High-resolution imaging of supraglacial hydrological features on the Greenland Ice Sheet with NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrument suite	2022	Studinger, Michael, Manizade, Serdar S., Linkswiler, Matthew A., Yungel, James K.	Albedo, Snow/Ice Temperature, Surface Melt, Water Vapor, Ice Temperature, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Sensor Counts, VISIBLE IMAGERY
Assessment of altimetry using ground-based GPS data from the 88S Traverse, Antarctica, in support of ICESat-2	2019	Brunt, Kelly M., Neumann, Thomas A., Larsen, Christopher F.	Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Sensor Counts