Earth ID: 580

Greenland: Airplane Animation Revealing Ice Change

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on March 4, 1999

This animation is match-moved to animation #581.

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 1)
Plane flies over Greenland revealing changes in elevation data taken from onboard Laser Altimeter. Airplane's motion path should be identical to previous Beach Mapping and Mars Laser Altimeter motion paths, thereby allowing a smooth dissolve between this and the other two animations".

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http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/greenland/index.html

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Bob Bindschadler (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
William Krabill (NASA/GSFC Wallops): Scientist

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Science Paper:
W. Krabill, E. Frederick, S. Manizade, C. Martin, J. Sonntag, R. Swift, R. Thomas, W. Wright, and J. Yungel, Rapid Thinning of Parts of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet, Science, 283, n5407, pp 1522-1524, March 5, 1999

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Data Used:

Airborne Topographic Mapper

1993/06-1993/07, 1994/05-1994/06, 1998/06-1998/07, 1999/05

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This item is part of this series:
Greenland

Goddard TV Tape:
G1999-016

Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> Ice
SVS >> Laser Altimeter
SVS >> Airplane
GCMD >> Location >> Greenland
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0