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Description

This data set contains flight reports from NASA Operation IceBridge Greenland, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alaska missions. Flight reports contain information on region, mission, aircraft model, flight data, purpose of flight, and on-board sensors. The flight reports were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns.

The corresponding flight lines can be found in the IceBridge L1B Thinned Flight Lines (IPFLT1B) data set.

Product Summary

Platforms
AIRCRAFT ,
C-185 ,
DHC-3 ,
DHC-6 ,
G-V ,
IKHANA ,
Multiple ,
P-3B ,
RQ-4
Instruments
VISUAL OBSERVATIONS ,
MULTIPLE
Spatial Extent

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

,

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

,

N: 72 S: 55 E: -130 W: -156

Geographic Region
ARCTIC ,
ALASKA ,
ANTARCTICA ,
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2009-03-30 to 2019-11-20
Concept ID
C3204976174-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
947
Processing Level
1B
Science Keywords
Flight Data Logs

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.

Copy Citation

NULL. (2018). IceBridge L1B Flight Reports, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/RTOB6O2I1CDC Date Accessed: 2025-12-15

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION