NASA 2009_GR_NASA: Greenland Ice Thickness from Radar Sounder

PARIS radar ice thickness measurements collected over Greenland during NASA's Operation IceBridge campaigns. The dataset is hosted on AWS Open Data and requires an Earthdata Login account for access. It is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Modeling ice sheet thickness and volume based on radar sounding data.
• Analyzing changes in Greenland's ice mass for climate studies.
• Calibrating and validating satellite-based ice measurement algorithms.

Strengths

• Data originates from NASA's Operation IceBridge, a major airborne campaign.
• Measurements were acquired using the specialized Pathfinder Advanced Radar Ice Sounder (PARIS).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

NASA Operation IceBridge campaigns

Collection Method

Airborne measurements using the Pathfinder Advanced Radar Ice Sounder (PARIS)

Time Range

2009

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Greenland