CAMPAIGN INFORMATION

Operation IceBridge 2012 Greenland Dates: 12 March - 25 May, 2012 Location: Greenland / Arctic Ocean Principal Investigators: NASA Headquarters / John Arvesen Aircraft: NASA 426 P3-B Orion (Wallops Flight Facility) Additional Sensors: ATM, AirGrav, KT-19, 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: 37 Total Frames Processed: 590,527 Frame Overlap: 60% - 80% Status: Level-1B imagery is available, see individual missions for details.
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Operation IceBridge 2012 Arctic Deployment Map March 2012 06 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-02 14 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-04 15 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-05 16 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-06 17 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-07 19 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-08 21 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-09 22 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-10 23 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-11 26 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-12 27 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-13 28 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-14 29 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-15 30 Mar 2012 Flight: 12-426-16 April 2012 02 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-17 04 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-18 10 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-19 11 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-20 12 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-21 13 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-22 14 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-23 16 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-24 17 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-25 18 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-26 19 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-27 20 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-28 21 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-29 23 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-30 25 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-31 28 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-32 29 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-33 30 Apr 2012 Flight: 12-426-34 May 2012 2 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-35 3 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-36 4 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-37 7 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-38 8 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-39 9 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-40 10 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-41 11 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-42 14 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-43 15 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-44 16 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-45 17 May 2012 Flight: 12-426-46
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