Calibration aircraft camera imagery (ICESat-2/LVIS) — IS2OLVIS1BCV

In plain English

What it measures. Georeferenced aerial photographs (camera imagery), each tied to a real-world location.

How it's made. Captured by the medium-format camera on NASA's airborne LVIS instrument during high-altitude segments of the 2022 ICESat-2 Arctic Summer calibration flights.

How & where you'd use it. A supporting dataset used mainly to calibrate and validate ICESat-2 and LVIS measurements rather than for standalone analysis.

What's measured

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS › VISIBLE IMAGERY

Coverage & cadence

Time span2022-07-11 → 2022-07-26
Measured byG-V (LVIS-Camera)
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 georeferenced imagery from the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) PhaseOne medium-format camera, which was operated on high-altitude segments of flights during the ICESat-2 2022 Arctic Summer calibration campaign.

Get the data

is2olvis1bcv_access.py

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

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="IS2OLVIS1BCV",
    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.

What's measured

Coverage & cadence

What you can do with it

Get the data

Official links