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IOCAM1B·v2·dataset

Raw airborne camera photos of the ice (IceBridge)

IceBridge CAMBOT L1B Geolocated Images V002
land NASA NSIDC_CPRD Level 1B GeoTIFF
In plain English

What it measures. High-resolution aerial photographs of the ice surface over Antarctica and Greenland, each image tagged with its location on the ground.

How it's made. Captured by an airborne mapping camera system (CAMBOT) flown on research aircraft during NASA's Operation IceBridge campaigns; this is a raw, geolocated imagery product.

How & where you'd use it. A building-block input that provides a visual record of the ice, helping researchers interpret and check other ice measurements rather than serving as a finished analysis product.

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 1B
  • Spatial extent-180, 60, 180, 90
  • FormatsGeoTIFF
  • 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 high-resolution imagery taken with the Continuous Airborne Mapping By Optical Translator (CAMBOT) system over Antarctica and Greenland. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns.

Get the data

iocam1b_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="IOCAM1B",
    version="2",
    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.