Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Data, Version 2, 2000-2018

• Main Authors: Ian Joughin, Ben Smith, Ian Howat, Ted Scambos
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2015
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > ICE VELOCITY; Arctic Report Card 2020; Arctic; Greenland; Ice Sheet; National Snow and Ice Data Center
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5067/OC7B04ZM9G6Q

This data set, part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, contains seasonal (winter) ice sheet-wide velocity maps for Greenland. The maps are derived from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data obtained by the Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) RADARSAT-1, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS), and the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X (TSX/TDX) satellites, as well as from the European Space Agency's (ESA) C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar data from Copernicus Sentinel-1A and -1B. This data set contains eleven winter Greenland ice sheet-wide mosaicked velocity maps derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. Depending on the year, different platforms and sensors were used to produce these data (see Table 3). For each winter, a shapefile is included to indicate the source satellite image pairs that were processed to produce the mosaic. Since speckle tracking may fail to produce results at some points within a SAR image pair, the swaths listed in the shapefile only indicate which data could have contributed to a particular point (i.e., some data from that swath were used in the mosaic, but at any particular point, there may not have been a valid result from that swath). Joughin, I., B. Smith, I. Howat, and T. Scambos. 2015, updated 2018. MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data, Version 2. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/OC7B04ZM9G6Q. 13 Nov 2020.