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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - ICESat -

Full Name

Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite

Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

NASA

Launch Date

12 Jan 2003

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

14 Aug 2010

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

27642 (TLE)

International Designator

2003-002A

Orbit Type

Inclined, non-sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

97 minutes

Orbit Sense

N/A

Orbit Inclination

94 deg

Orbit Altitude

600 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

183 days

Objectives and Applications

3-year nominal mission life, currently in extended operations. Monitors mass balance of polar ice sheets and their contribution to global sea level change. Secondary goals: cloud heights and vertical structure of clouds/aerosols; roughness, reflectivity, vegetation heights, snow-cover.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	GLAS
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	GLAS
	Cloud particle properties and profile	GLAS
Land	Landscape topography	GLAS
Snow & Ice	Ice sheet topography	GLAS
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	GLAS

Mission Instruments

GLAS - Geoscience Laser Altimeter System

OpenSearch Datasets

Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 54 )
ABoVE: Annual Aboveground Biomass for Boreal Forests of ABoVE Core Domain, 1984-2014

Aboveground Biomass Change for Amazon Basin, Mexico, and Pantropical Belt, 2003-2016

Antarctic 1 km Digital Elevation Model (DEM) from Combined ERS-1 Radar and ICESat Laser Satellite Al ...

Antarctic Active Subglacial Lake Inventory from ICESat Altimetry, Version 1

Arctic Sea Ice Freeboard and Thickness, Version 1

CDDIS_GNSS_satellite_data

Collaborative Research: Characteristics of Snow Megadunes and their Potential Effects on Ice Core In ...

Collaborative Research: Using Fracture Patterns and Ice Thickness to Study the History and Dynamics ... $The work is in collaboration with co-PI Christina Hulbe and at Portland State University. In our previous work we were able to image, map, and interpret streak lines (flow trajectories) on the Ross Ice Shelf and demonstrate, using numerical simulations, that this pattern of flow-related features required significant changes in flow direction in the outflows of a number of ice streams on the Siple Coast of West Antarctica. In the present project, we have expanded the suite of features to include fracture patterns mapped from satellite imagery, expanded the modeling work to capture the impact of grounding and ungrounding of ice in the mouths of ice streams, and we have worked to constrain stop and start cycles recorded by the features out in the Ross Ice Shelf. A summary of results, starting with the abstract of the paper that is out in JGR Earth Surfaces (see publications record in this DIF):$
GLAS Validation on the Amery Ice Shelf

GLAS/ICESat 1 km Laser Altimetry Digital Elevation Model of Greenland, Version 1

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