First Assessments of ICESat-2 Performance Using Aircraft Data

• Main Authors: Markus, Thorsten, Hancock, David, Neumann, Tom, Brenner, Anita C., Brunt, Kelly M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Geophysics; Mabel; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20120002013

The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) Is a next-generation laser altimeter designed to continue key observations of ice sheet elevation change, sea ice freeboard, vegetation canopy height, earth surface elevation, and sea surface height. Scheduled for launch in early 2016, ICESat...