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Land Surface Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
IceBridge HiCARS 2 L2 Geolocated Ice Thickness V001 1 BT-67, DHC-6 HiCARS2 2010-12-05 to 2013-01-20

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

XML, ASCII
IceBridge LVIS L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms V002 2 Airplane, B-200, C-130, DC-8, G-V, HU-25C, P-3B, RQ-4 ALTIMETERS, LASERS, LVIS 2009-04-14 to 2017-09-20

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

,

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

HDF5
IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product V001 1 AIRCRAFT, B-200, C-130, DC-8, G-V, HU-25C, P-3B, RQ-4 ALTIMETERS, LASERS, LVIS 2009-04-14 to 2015-10-31

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

,

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

ASCII
IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product V002 2 AIRCRAFT, B-200, C-130, DC-8, G-V, HU-25C, P-3B, RQ-4 ALTIMETERS, LASERS, LVIS 2017-08-25 to 2017-09-20

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

ASCII
IceBridge LVIS-GH L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms V001 1 C-130 LVIS-GH 2013-10-30 to 2013-11-14

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

,

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

HDF5
IceBridge LVIS-GH L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product V001 1 C-130 LVIS-GH 2013-10-26 to 2013-11-14

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

,

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

ASCII
IceBridge Radar L3 Tomographic Ice Thickness V002 2 DC-8, P-3B MCoRDS 2010-11-20 to 2013-04-20

N: 83 S: 59 E: -12 W: -74

,

N: -63 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

25 Meters x 25 Meters netCDF-4
IceBridge Riegl Laser Altimeter L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Triplets V001 1 BT-67 UTIG Riegl 2008-12-29 to 2013-01-22

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

,

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

ASCII
ICESat/ICESat-2 Traverse: Monthly GPS Surface Elevation Data at Summit Station, Greenland V001 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS GPS 2006-08-24 to 2025-04-02

N: 72.648222 S: 72.578616 E: -38.474193 W: -38.585667

RINEX, CSV
Impacts of Wildfires on Boreal Forest Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics 1 MODELS, LANDSAT-1 Computer, MSS 1986-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 70 S: 43.5 E: -53 W: -166

CSV
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Land Surface Data Tools

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Tool Description Services
ASF MapReady Terrain-correct, geocode, and apply polarimetric decompositions to multi-pol SAR data Processing
FLOOD The FLOOD viewer facilitates the use and evaluation of LANCE flood products by allowing the user to browse globally and over time, and to compare to other flood products. Monitoring Natural Events, Search and Discovery, Visualization
Giovanni Giovanni is a web application for accessing, visualizing, and analyzing Earth science remote sensing data without downloading the data. Search and Discovery, Analysis, Access, Visualization, Downloading, Subsetting
OB.DAAC File Search Utility Find and download instrument data archived at OB.DAAC using mission parameters or filename patterns, including support for wildcard searching on partial filenames. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
Ocean Color Level 3 and 4 Browser The Ocean Color Level 3 and 4 Browser allows users to view, download, or order global composites at various spatial and temporal scales (level 3) or get results from analyses of lower-level data (level 4). Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
RTC Stack Processor The radiometric terrain correction (RTC) stack processor tool facilitates time-series analysis of such phenomena as flooding events, deforestation, or glacier retreat. Analysis, Processing, Search and Discovery, Visualization
SeaDAS Sea, earth, atmosphere Data Analysis System (SeaDAS) is a comprehensive image analysis package for the processing, display, analysis, and quality control of ocean color data. Analysis, Visualization, Processing
VEDA NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities. Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing
Vertex Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, Subsetting
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