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Description

This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides Greenland outlet glacier terminus positions created from MEaSUREs Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mosaics and Landsat 8 OLI imagery.

See <a href="http://nsidc.org/data/measures/gimp">Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GrIMP)</a> for related data.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
LANDSAT-8 ,
RADARSAT-1 ,
Sentinel-1A ,
Sentinel-1B
Instruments
OLI ,
SAR ,
C-SAR
Projects
MEaSUREs
Spatial Extent

N: 83 S: 60 E: -14 W: -75

Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413)
Location
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2009-01-10 to 2009-02-05
Temporal Resolution
1 Year
Concept ID
C3291956143-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Glacier Extent

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

Joughin, I., Moon, T., Joughin, J., & Black, T. (2015). MEaSUREs Annual Greenland Outlet Glacier Terminus Positions from SAR Mosaics, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/DC0MLBOCL3EL Date Accessed: 2026-09-12

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