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Description

This data set contains ice thickness, surface and bed elevation, and echo strength measurements taken over Antarctica using the Hi-Capability Airborne Radar Sounder (HiCARS) instrument. The data were collected by scientists working on the Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP) project, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) with additional support from NASA Operation IceBridge.

Product Summary

Platforms
BT-67 ,
DHC-6
Instruments
HiCARS2
Spatial Extent

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

Geographic Region
ANTARCTICA
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2010-12-05 to 2013-01-20
Concept ID
C3204982997-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
617
Processing Level
2
Science Keywords
Bed Elevation ,
Ice Depth/Thickness ,
Ice Depth/Thickness ,
Terrain Elevation

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Blankenship, D., Kempf, S., Young, D., Richter, T., Schroeder, D., Ng, G., Greenbaum, J., van Ommen, T., Warner, R., Roberts, J., Young, N., Lemeur, E., & Siegert, M. (2012). IceBridge HiCARS 2 L2 Geolocated Ice Thickness, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/9EBR2T0VXUDG Date Accessed: 2025-12-13

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