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IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product V001

Creator: NSIDC_CPRD
Keywords: Terrain Elevation

ILVIS2

Version

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5067/OIKFGJNBM6OO

Citation

Center/Project

National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC DAAC)

Data at a Glance

Data Format

ASCII

Spatial Extent

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

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

Location

ANTARCTICA ,

ARCTIC ,

ARCTIC

Temporal Extent

2009-04-14 to 2015-10-31

Temporal Resolution

Varies

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

GEODETIC

Description

This data set contains surface elevation data over Greenland, Alaska, and Antarctica, measured by the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS), an airborne lidar scanning laser altimeter. The data were collected as part of NASA Operation IceBridge funded campaigns.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms

AIRCRAFT ,

B-200 ,

C-130 ,

DC-8 ,

G-V ,

HU-25C ,

P-3B ,

RQ-4

Instruments

ALTIMETERS ,

LASERS ,

LVIS

Spatial Extent

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

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

Spatial Reference System(s)

WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

Location

ANTARCTICA ,

ARCTIC ,

ARCTIC

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

GEODETIC

Temporal Extent

2009-04-14 to 2015-10-31

Temporal Resolution

Varies

Concept ID

C3154036182-NSIDC_CPRD

Data State

COMPLETE

Number of Files/Granules

1546

Processing Level

Published

2010-06-24

Updated

2013-04-11

Science Keywords

Terrain Elevation

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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Blair, J., & Hofton, M. (2010). IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/OIKFGJNBM6OO Date Accessed: 2026-05-04

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product, Version 1 User Guide

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Publications Citing This Dataset

Title	Year Sort ascending	Author	Topic
Improving satellite waveform altimetry measurements with a probabilistic relaxation algorithm	2020	Shu, Song, Liu, Hongxing, Frappart, Frederic, Kang, Emily Lei, Yang, Bo, Xu, Min, Huang, Yan, Wu, Bin, Yu, Bailang, Wang, Shujie, Beck, Richard, Hinkel, Kenneth	Terrain Elevation
Ice sheet elevation mapping and change detection with the ice, cloud and land elevation satellite-2	2019	Csatho, B. M., Schenk, A. F., Neumann, T.	Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Ice Sheets, Reflectance, Terrain Elevation
Accuracy assessment and waveform analysis of CryoSat-2 SARIn mode data over Antarctica	2019	Wang, Fang, Bamber, Jonathan L., Yang, Shuangbao, Cheng, Xiao, Liu, Shubin, Zhang, Youzhi, Chi, Yunping	Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Terrain Elevation
Antarctic ice shelf thickness change from multimission lidar mapping	2019	Sutterley, Tyler C., Markus, Thorsten, Neumann, Thomas A., van den Broeke, Michiel, van Wessem, J. Melchior, Ligtenberg, Stefan R. M.	Ice Velocity, Grounding Line, Basins, Coastline, Ice Shelves, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Terrain Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Comparing coincident elevation and freeboard from IceBridge and five different CryoSat-2 retrackers	2018	Yi, Donghui, Kurtz, Nathan, Harbeck, Jeremy, Kwok, Ron, Hendricks, Stefan, Ricker, Robert	Freeboard, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Roughness, Sea Ice Elevation, Snow Depth, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, RADAR IMAGERY, Sea Ice Elevation, Snow Cover, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Sensor Counts
Connected subglacial lake drainage beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	2017	Smith, Benjamin E., Gourmelen, Noel, Huth, Alexander, Joughin, Ian	Terrain Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness