Aerial Imagery of Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets

High-resolution imagery was captured over Antarctica and Greenland using the Continuous Airborne Mapping By Optical Translator (CAMBOT) system. The data were collected during NASA's Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns. The dataset was last updated by the NSIDC_CPRD organization in November 2019.

Use Cases

• Detect surface melt ponds and crevasses from high-resolution CAMBOT imagery.
• Monitor changes in ice shelf calving fronts by analyzing geolocated image time series.
• Validate satellite-derived ice surface products using precise aerial image geolocation.
• Train image segmentation models to classify ice types and surface conditions.

Strengths

• Imagery is high-resolution, captured by a specialized optical translator system.
• Data covers two major ice sheet regions: Antarctica and Greenland.
• Collected as part of the systematic, funded Operation IceBridge campaigns.

Limitations

• Specific image count, file size, and temporal range are not provided.
• Data has not been updated since 2019, limiting analysis of recent changes.

Provenance

Source

NSIDC_CPRD, collected under NASA's Operation IceBridge.

Collection Method

Captured by the CAMBOT (Continuous Airborne Mapping By Optical Translator) system from aircraft.

Freshness

Last updated in 2019; no stated update frequency.

Geography

Antarctica and Greenland.