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Operation IceBridge 2012 Antarctica Dates: 9 October - 10 November, 2012 Location: Antarctica Principal Investigators: NASA Headquarters / John Arvesen Aircraft: NASA 817 DC-8 (Armstrong Flight Research Center) Additional Sensors: ATM, AirGrav, KT-19, KU/Snow Radars, 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: 16 Total Frames Processed: 173,077 Frame Overlap: 60% - 80% Status: Level-1B imagery is available, see individual missions for details
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Operation IceBridge 2012 Antarctica Deployment Map October 2012 3 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-03 12 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-06 13 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-07 15 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-08 16 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-09 18 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-10 19 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-11 22 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-12 23 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-13 25 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-14 27 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-15 28 Oct 2012 Flight: 13-817-16 November 2012 1 Nov 2012 Flight: 13-817-17 2 Nov 2012 Flight: 13-817-18 4 Nov 2012 Flight: 13-817-19 6 Nov 2012 Flight: 13-817-20 7 Nov 2012 Flight: 13-817-21
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