CAMPAIGN INFORMATION

Operation IceBridge 2011 Greenland Dates: 9 March - 19 May, 2011 Location: Greenland / Arctic Ocean Principal Investigators: NASA Headquarters / John Arvesen Aircraft: NASA 426 P3-B Orion (Wallops Flight Facility) Additional Sensors: ATM, AirGrav, KU/Snow/Accumulation Radars, 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: 38 Total Frames Processed: 428,403 Frame Overlap: 60% - 80% Status: Level-1B imagery is available, see individual missions for details.
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Operation IceBridge 2011 Arctic Deployment Map March 2011 9 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-01 16 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-04 17 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-05 18 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-06 22 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-07 23 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-08 25 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-09 26 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-10 28 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-11 29 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-12 31 Mar 2011 Flight: 11-426-13 April 2011 6 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-14 7 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-15 8 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-16 11 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-18 12 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-19 13 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-20 14 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-21 15 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-22 16 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-23 18 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-24 19 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-25 22 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-26 23 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-27 25 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-28 26 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-29 28 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-30 29 Apr 2011 Flight: 11-426-31 May 2011 2 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-32 4 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-33 5 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-34 6 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-35 7 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-36 9 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-37 10 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-38 11 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-39 12 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-40 13 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-41 16 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-42 19 May 2011 Flight: 11-426-44
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