Greenland: Multiple Flight Paths Showing Ice Change

  • Released Thursday, March 4th, 1999
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:59PM
  • ID: 583

This animation shows all the strips of data collected by the aircraft-mounted laser altimeter flying over Greenland. Match-moved to animations #584 and #582.

Animation of flight paths showing ice thickness changes as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper

Flight paths showing ice thickness changes as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper

Flight paths showing ice thickness changes as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 4)Shows the multimple flight paths taken from laser altimeter equipped aircraft over Greenland. This scene picks up where scene GIC 1 leaves off (camera angles, lighting, etc. should be identical)and also follows the identical motion path of GIC 3, allowing it to either be attached onto the end of GIC 1, or dissolved midway through GIC 3.

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 4)

Shows the multimple flight paths taken from laser altimeter equipped aircraft over Greenland. This scene picks up where scene GIC 1 leaves off (camera angles, lighting, etc. should be identical)and also follows the identical motion path of GIC 3, allowing it to either be attached onto the end of GIC 1, or dissolved midway through GIC 3.

For More Information

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

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Papers used in this visualization

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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