Earth  ID: 583

Greenland: Multiple Flight Paths Showing Ice Change

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on March 4, 1999
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.
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Animation of flight paths showing ice thickness changes as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper
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Flight paths showing ice thickness changes as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper
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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

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 >> Path
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