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Operation IceBridge 2017 Greenland Dates: 9 March - 12 May, 2017 Location: Greenland / Arctic Ocean Principal Investigators: NASA Headquarters Aircraft: NASA 426 P3-B Orion (Wallops Flight Facility) Additional Sensors: ATM, FLIR, Gravimeter, KT-19, KU/Snow/Accumulation 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: 40 Total Frames Processed: 537,605 Frame Overlap: 60% - 80% Status: Level-1B imagery is available, see individual missions for details.
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Operation IceBridge 2017 Arctic Deployment Map February 2017 27 Feb 2017 Flight: 17-426-02 March 2017 9 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-04 10 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-05 11 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-06 12 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-07 14 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-08 20 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-10 22 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-11 23 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-12 24 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-13 27 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-14 28 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-15 29 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-16 30 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-17 31 Mar 2017 Flight: 17-426-18 April 2017 03 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-19 05 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-20 06 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-21 07 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-22 10 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-23 11 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-24 12 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-25 13 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-26 14 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-27 17 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-28 19 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-29 21 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-31 22 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-32 24 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-33 26 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-34 28 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-35 29 Apr 2017 Flight: 17-426-36 May 2017 01 May 2017 Flight: 17-426-37 02 May 2017 Flight: 17-426-38 03 May 2017 Flight: 17-426-39 05 May 2017 Flight: 17-426-40 06 May 2017 Flight: 17-426-41 08 May 2017 Flight: 17-426-42 10 May 2017 Flight: 17-426-43 11 May 2017 Flight: 17-426-44 12 May 2017 Flight: 17-426-45
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