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Monthly Arctic Sea-Ice Thickness Maps

ICESat-2 L4 Monthly Gridded Sea Ice Thickness (COGs)
cryosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Month-by-month maps of how thick the sea ice is across the polar ocean.

How it's made. Made from NASA's ICESat-2 satellite laser measurements of ice height, processed into monthly gridded maps.

How & where you'd use it. Helps scientists track how sea ice is thinning and changing with the climate.

What's measured

IS2SITMOGR4cog

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2018-11-01 → 2021-04-30
  • Spatial extent-180, 31.269, 179.706, 85.189
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Measure sea ice, snow cover and glaciers
  • Watch ice-sheet elevation change
  • Track freeze/thaw and permafrost
Official description

ICESat-2 L4 Monthly Gridded Sea Ice Thickness (COGs)

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("IS2SITMOGR4-cog")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).