Airborne Laser Altimetry of the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica

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Abstract: This data set includes airborne altimetry collected over the catchment and main trunk of Thwaites Glacier, one of Antarctica's most active ice streams. The airborne altimetry comprises 35,000 line-kilometers sampled at 20 meters along track. The full dataset has an internal error of ±20 cm; a primary subset has an error of ±8 cm. We find a +20 cm bias with Geoscience Laser Altimeter System data over a flat interior region. These data will serve as an additional temporal reference for the evolution of Thwaites Glacier surface, as well as aid the construction of future high resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEM). Line data are available in space-delimited ASCII format and are available via FTP.
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Title  Airborne Laser Altimetry of the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica
publication date 2008
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individual Name  Young, Duncan A.
organisation Name  J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Bldg. 196, 10100 Burnet Road (R2200), Austin, TX 78758-4445, Austin, Texas, 78758-4445, USA
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electronic Mail Address:  duncan@ig.utexas.edu
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individual Name  Kempf, Scott D.
organisation Name  Jackson School of Geosciences, , J.J. Pickle Research Campus Bldg. 196, 10100 Burnet Road (R2200), Austin, Texas, 78758-4445, USA
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individual Name  Blankenship, Donald D.
organisation Name  4412 Spicewood Springs Rd. #600, Austin, TX, 78759-8500, USA
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electronic Mail Address:  blank@ig.utexas.edu
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individual Name  Holt, John W.
organisation Name  4412 Spicewood Springs Rd. #600, Austin, TX, 78759-850, USA
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individual Name  Morse, David L.
organisation Name  Austin, TX,
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organisation Name  U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Data Center
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Topic Category:   geoscientificInformation
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Resource language:   eng
Resource progress code:   Complete
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Thwaites Glacier
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Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -130
eastBoundLongitude  -95
northBoundLatitude  -75
southBoundLatitude  -80
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2004-12-10 2005-01-29
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individual Name  Young, Duncan A.
organisation Name  J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Bldg. 196, 10100 Burnet Road (R2200), Austin, TX 78758-4445, Austin, Texas, 78758-4445, USA
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