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CAMPAIGN INFORMATION

Operation IceBridge 2010 Antarctica
Dates: 16 October - 23 November, 2010
Location: Antarctica
Principal Investigators: NASA Headquarters / John Arvesen
Aircraft: NASA 817 DC-8 (Armstrong Flight Research Center)
Additional Sensors: ATM, AirGrav, KU/Snow Radars, LVIS, MCoRDS
Objective: Operation IceBridge, a multi-year NASA field campaign, is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. It will yield an unprecedented three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice.

Processing Information
Science Flights: 10
Total Frames Processed: 95,145
Frame Overlap: 60% - 80%
Status: Level-1B imagery is available, see individual missions for details

Level-1B Data Distribution
NSIDC Level-1B Imagery Archive
NSIDC Raw Imagery Archive

Operation IceBridge 2010
Antarctica Deployment Map
October 2010
16 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-03
26 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-06
28 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-07
30 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-08
November 2010
4 Nov 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-09
5 Nov 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-10
6 Nov 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-11
10 Nov 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-12
13 Nov 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-13
19 Nov 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-14
20 Nov 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 11-001-15
Related Web Sites
Operation IceBridge Home Page
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Airborne Science Program

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Sample Imagery
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Flight: 11-001-09
Amundsen-Scott
South Pole Station
south pole image
R: 0.65µm
G: 0.55µm
B: 0.45µm