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NSIDC-0715·v2·dataset

Detailed elevation map of Greenland (GeoEye, WorldView)

MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GrIMP) Digital Elevation Model from GeoEye and WorldView Imagery V002
cryosphere NASA NSIDC_CPRD Level 3 GeoTIFF
In plain English

What it measures. A detailed elevation map of the Greenland Ice Sheet, showing the height of the ice surface at very fine resolution.

How it's made. Created from pairs of overlapping high-resolution images taken at slightly different angles by the GeoEye and WorldView commercial satellites, then aligned to ICESat-2 laser measurements for accuracy.

How & where you'd use it. Helps scientists measure the shape and changing height of Greenland's ice, a key piece of tracking ice loss and sea level rise.

What's measured

CRYOSPHERE › GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS › GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATION

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2008-05-15 → 2020-11-19
  • Measured byGEOEYE-1 (CAMERAS) · WORLDVIEW-1 (CAMERAS) · WORLDVIEW-2 (CAMERAS) · WORLDVIEW-3 (CAMERAS)
  • Processing levelLevel 3
  • Spatial extent-75, 60, -14, 83
  • FormatsGeoTIFF
  • StatusCOMPLETE

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

This data set consists of an enhanced resolution digital elevation model (DEM) for the Greenland Ice Sheet, derived from sub-meter resolution, panchromatic stereoscopic imagery collected by the GeoEye-1, WorldView-1, -2, and -3 satellites operated by Maxar Technologies. The DEM was created from in-track image pairs (i.e., both images collected minutes apart along the same orbital pass) and cross-track images (i.e., from different orbits) within the in-track imaging geometry and maximum time separation criteria. The DEM is registered to ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Land Ice Height, Version 5 (ATL06, V5) data collected in the summers of 2019 and 2020. See <a href="http://nsidc.org/data/measures/gimp">Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GrIMP)</a> for related data

Get the data

nsidc-0715_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="NSIDC-0715",
    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.