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Operation IceBridge 2016 Greenland Dates: 19 April - 19 May, 2016 Location: Greenland / Arctic Ocean Principal Investigators: NASA Headquarters Aircraft: NOAA N43RF WP3-D Orion (Aircraft Operations Center) Additional Sensors: ATM, FLIR, KU/Snow/Accumulation Radars, MCoRDS, NOAA WX 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: 257,841 Frame Overlap: 60% - 80% Status: Level-1B processing is complete, see individual missions for details.
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Operation IceBridge 2016 Arctic Deployment Map March 2016 22 Mar 2016 Flight: 16-043-01 April 2016 12 Apr 2016 Flight: 16-043-03 19 Apr 2016 Flight: 16-043-07 20 Apr 2016 Flight: 16-043-08 21 Apr 2016 Flight: 16-043-09 29 Apr 2016 Flight: 16-043-10 May 2016 03 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-11 04 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-12 09 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-13 10 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-14 11 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-15 12 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-16 13 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-17 14 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-18 16 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-19 17 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-20 18 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-21 19 May 2016 Flight: 16-043-22
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