This dataset provides complete land ice and ocean
classification masks at 15 m for the Greenland ice sheet.
Ice cover was mapped using
a combination of orthorectified panchromatic (band 8)
imagery from the Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper
Plus (ETM+), distributed by the USGS, and RADARSAT-1
Synthetic Amplitude Radar (SAR) amplitude images produced
and distributed by I. Joughin at the Applied Physics
Laboratory, University of Washington.
The Landsat imagery was acquired for the months of July
through September in 1999, 2000 and 2001 (mostly 2000)
and the RADARSAT imagery was acquired in fall of 2000.
Bands
Pixel Size 15 meters
Bands
Name
Description
ocean_mask
Ocean mask
ice_mask
Ice mask
ocean_mask Class Table
Value
Color
Description
0
#000000
all other terrain
1
#0000ff
ocean
ice_mask Class Table
Value
Color
Description
0
#000000
not glacier ice
1
#ffffff
glacier ice
Terms of Use
Terms of Use
As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this
data set using the given citation.
Citations
Citations:
Howat, I.M., A. Negrete, B.E. Smith, 2014, The Greenland Ice
Mapping Project (GIMP) land classification and surface elevation
datasets, The Cryosphere, 8, 1509-1518,
doi:10.5194/tc-8-1509-2014article pdf
This dataset provides complete land ice and ocean classification masks at 15 m for the Greenland ice sheet. Ice cover was mapped using a combination of orthorectified panchromatic (band 8) imagery from the Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), distributed by the USGS, and RADARSAT-1 Synthetic Amplitude Radar (SAR) …
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