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IOCAM0·v1·dataset

Raw aerial photos of polar ice (Operation IceBridge)

IceBridge CAMBOT L0 Raw Imagery V001
land NASA NSIDC_CPRD Level 0 JPEGASCII
In plain English

What it measures. Raw aerial photographs of the ice surface over Antarctica and Greenland, paired with the aircraft's position and orientation when each image was taken.

How it's made. Captured by the CAMBOT optical camera, part of an airborne mapping instrument suite flown on research aircraft during NASA's Operation IceBridge surveys, and provided in unprocessed form.

How & where you'd use it. An unprocessed building-block input; researchers typically process these images further to study ice-sheet surfaces and changes, rather than using the raw photos directly.

What's measured

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS › VISIBLE IMAGERY

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2018-10-10 → 2019-11-20
  • Measured byDC-8 (CAMBOT) · G-V (CAMBOT) · P-3B (CAMBOT)
  • Processing levelLevel 0
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, -53
  • FormatsJPEG, ASCII
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

This data set contains raw images and associated aircraft position and attitude data, taken over Antarctica and Greenland by the Continuous Airborne Mapping By Optical Translator (CAMBOT), part of the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrument suite. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns.

Get the data

iocam0_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="IOCAM0",
    version="1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from NSIDC_CPRD
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.