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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 annual maps of Antarctic ice velocity. The maps are assembled using SAR data from the Japanese Space Agency's (JAXA) ALOS PALSAR, the European Space Agency's (ESA) ENVISAT ASAR and Copernicus Sentinel-1, the Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) RADARSAT-1, RADARSAT-2, the German Aerospace Agency's (DLR) TerraSAR-X (TSX) and TanDEM –X (TDX), and the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Landsat-8 optical imagery..

See <a href="https://nsidc.org/data/measures/aiv">Antarctic Ice Sheet Velocity and Mapping Data</a> for related data.

Product Summary

Platforms
ALOS ,
ENVISAT ,
LANDSAT-8 ,
RADARSAT-1 ,
RADARSAT-2 ,
Sentinel-1A ,
Sentinel-1B ,
TDX ,
TSX
Instruments
PALSAR ,
ASAR ,
OLI ,
SAR ,
C-SAR
Spatial Extent

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

Spatial Resolution
1 Kilometers x 1 Kilometers
Geographic Region
ANTARCTICA ,
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2000-07-01 to 2001-06-30 ,
2005-07-01 to 2020-06-30
Concept ID
C3298025582-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
16
Processing Level
3
Science Keywords
Ice Velocity

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

Mouginot, J., Scheuchl, B., & Rignot, E. (2017). MEaSUREs Annual Antarctic Ice Velocity Maps, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/9T4EPQXTJYW9 Date Accessed: 2025-12-14

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