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CAMPAIGN INFORMATION

Operation IceBridge 2011 Antarctica
Dates: 4 October - 19 November, 2011
Location: Antarctica
Principal Investigators: NASA Headquarters / John Arvesen
Aircraft: NASA 817 DC-8 (Armstrong Flight Research Center)
Additional Sensors: ATM, Gravimeter, KU/Snow/Accumulation, Magnetometer, 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: 24
Total Frames Processed: 311,535
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 2011
Antarctica Deployment Map
October 2011
4 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-02
9 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-04
10 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-05
12 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-06
13 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-07
14 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-08
17 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-09
18 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-10
20 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-11
21 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-12
23 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-13
24 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-14
25 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-15
26 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-16
29 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-17
30 Oct 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-18
November 2011
3 Nov 2010
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-19
4 Nov 2011
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-20
7 Nov 2011
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-21
9 Nov 2011
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-22
11 Nov 2011
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-23
12 Nov 2011
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-24
13 Nov 2011
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-25
14 Nov 2011
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-26
16 Nov 2011
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-27
17 Nov 2011
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-28
19 Nov 2011
flight trackmap thumbnailFlight: 12-817-29
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: 12-817-24
Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
glacial rift image
R: 0.65µm
G: 0.55µm
B: 0.45µm


Sample Imagery
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Flight: 12-817-21
Cordillera Darwin Range, Chile
island mountain range image
R: 0.65µm
G: 0.55µm
B: 0.45µm


Sample Imagery
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Flight: 12-817-11
Weddell Sea, Antarctica
sea ice streamers image
R: 0.65µm
G: 0.55µm
B: 0.45µm