Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Land Ice Height, Version 6
datasetobservational / measurementIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Data & Digital Tools
- Affiliations
- CIRES
Description
Geolocated land-ice surface heights (above the WGS 84 ellipsoid) with quality parameters, from the ATLAS laser altimeter on the ICESat-2 observatory, 14 October 2018 to 2 March 2025, with centimeter-scale precision along 40 m ground-track segments.
Official page
https://nsidc.org/data/atl06/versions/6
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Contact
- General contact
- NSIDC User Services / Earthdata Forum (generic)
Details
- Keywords
- ice sheet elevation, laser altimetry, icesat-2, land ice mass change, geolocation uncertainty, seasonal change detection
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado
- Processing level
- Level 3A
- Temporal cadence
- 91-day
- Associated entity
- NSIDC (NASA NSIDC DAAC); NSIDC is part of CIRES
- Identifier
- ATL06