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Description

This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, consists of surface velocity estimates for selected Greenland Ice Sheet outlet glaciers. Velocity fields were generated by tracking visible features in optical images acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the European Space Agency (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B satellites.

Product Summary

Platforms
LANDSAT-8 ,
Sentinel-2A ,
Sentinel-2B
Instruments
OLI ,
Sentinel-2 MSI
Spatial Extent

N: 82 S: 62 E: -20 W: -70

Spatial Resolution
100 Meters x 100 Meters
Geographic Region
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2016-01-01 to 2023-12-29
Concept ID
C3298525136-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
1149
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

Howat, I., Chudley, T., & Noh, M.-J. (2022). MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Single-Pair Velocity Maps from Optical Images, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/B28FM2QVVYWY Date Accessed: 2025-12-14

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