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. |
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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 |
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Level-1B Data Distribution NSIDC Level-1B Imagery Archive NSIDC Raw Imagery Archive |
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Related Web Sites Operation IceBridge Home Page National Snow and Ice Data Center Airborne Science Program |
Sample Imagery |
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Flight: 12-817-24 Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica |
R: 0.65µm G: 0.55µm B: 0.45µm |
Sample Imagery |
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Flight: 12-817-21 Cordillera Darwin Range, Chile |
R: 0.65µm G: 0.55µm B: 0.45µm |
Sample Imagery |
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Flight: 12-817-11 Weddell Sea, Antarctica |
R: 0.65µm G: 0.55µm B: 0.45µm |