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Description

This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program, contains quarterly (three-month interval) ice velocity mosaics for the Greenland Ice Sheet. This product is derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data obtained by the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X (TSX/TDX) and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-1A and -1B satellites, and from the US Geological Survey's (USGS) Landsat 8 optical imagery.

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

Version Description

The following represent key updates as of Version 2. For a detailed list of the differences between versions 1 and 2, refer to the User Guide. Data set temporal resolution now runs through 30 November 2019. Application of a new DEM: NSIDC-0715 Addition of dT GeoTIFFs, a temporal offset parameter. Removal of bad data and addition of overlooked data. As a result, mosaics show more areas with no data, the min/max ex and ey values are lower and feature counts differ. Cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs along with auxiliary files now available

Product Summary

Platforms
LANDSAT-8 ,
Sentinel-1A ,
Sentinel-1B ,
TDX ,
TSX
Instruments
OLI ,
C-SAR ,
SAR ,
X-SAR
Spatial Extent

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

Spatial Resolution
200 Meters x 200 Meters
Location
GREENLAND ,
ARCTIC ,
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2014-12-01 to 2019-11-30
Temporal Resolution
1 Year
Concept ID
C3298036171-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
Published
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

Joughin, I. (2020). MEaSUREs Greenland Annual Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaics from SAR and Landsat, Version 2 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/TZZDYD94IMJB Date Accessed: 2026-06-13

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POLAR LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATIONS OF SELECTED GLACIERS IN SOUTHWESTERN Glowacki, Tadeusz, Milczarek, Wojciech Ice Velocity
A data set of monthly freshwater fluxes from the Greenland ice sheet's marine-terminating glaciers on a glacierbasin scale 20102020 Karlsson, Nanna B., Mankoff, Kenneth D, Solgaard, Anne M, Larsen, Signe H, How, Penelope R, Fausto, Robert S, Srensen, Louise S Land Ice/Ocean Classification, Ice Velocity
Icemarginal proglacial lakes across Greenland: Present status and a possible future Carrivick, Jonathan L., How, Penelope, Lea, James M., Sutherland, Jenna L., Grimes, Michael, Tweed, Fiona S., Cornford, Stephen, Quincey, Duncan J., Mallalieu, Joseph Ice Velocity, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation
Mapping Ice Flow Velocity of Tidewater Glaciers in Hornsund Fiord Area Milczarek, Wojciech, Kopec, Anna, Gowacki, Tadeusz Ice Velocity
Grounding line retreat and ice discharge variability at two surging, ice shelfforming basins of Flade Isblink ice cap, northern Greenland Moller, Marco, Friedl, Peter, Palmer, Steven J., Marzeion, Ben Ice Velocity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation
Processing methodology for the ITS_LIVE Sentinel-1 ice velocity products Lei, Yang, Gardner, Alex S., Agram, Piyush Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Velocity
Greenland ice velocity maps from the PROMICE project Solgaard, Anne, Kusk, Anders, Merryman Boncori, John Peter, Dall, Jrgen, Mankoff, Kenneth D., Ahlstrm, Andreas P., Andersen, Signe B., Citterio, Michele, Karlsson, Nanna B., Kjeldsen, Kristian K., Korsgaard, Niels J., Larsen, Signe H., Fausto, Robert S. Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Velocity
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