Glacier Stake Locations

As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a systematic sampling program has been undertaken to monitor mass balance and meltwater flow from the Taylor Valley glaciers. This data set contains global positioning system (GPS) measurements of s...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: HassanBasagic
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: McMurdo Dry Valleys LTERByrd Polar Research Center108 Scott Hall1090 Carmack RdColumbusOH43210-1002USA(614) 292-4697 2011
Subjects:
glacier
GPS
global positioning system
latitude
longitude
elevation
Antarctica
LTER
Canada
McMurdo Dry Valleys
Taylor Valley
Antarc*
glacier*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.22723
http://metacat.lternet.edu/knb/metacat/knb-lter-mcm.2000.2/xml
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Summary:As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a systematic sampling program has been undertaken to monitor mass balance and meltwater flow from the Taylor Valley glaciers. This data set contains global positioning system (GPS) measurements of stakes on glaciers. The measurements include both low-quality estimates (+/- 100m) from hand-held GPS units and high precision measurements (+/- 2 cm) using Trimble (4000 SSE) geodetic receivers. The purpose of these measurements was to obtain rough stake locations for use in relocating stakes in the future and precise stake locations for use in calculating stake displacement. The measurements are made relative to the WGS84 ellipsoid.

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