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Greenland: Multiple Flight Paths Showing Ice Change
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    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    Flight paths showing ice thickness changes as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper

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Video ID: SVS1999-0007 *
Animator: Alex Kekesi
Studio: SVS
Date Completed: March 04, 1999
Duration: 449 frames, 14.966667 seconds
Scientist: William Krabill (NASA/GSFC Wallops), Bob Bindschadler (NASA/GSFC)
Citation: 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
Instrument: Airborne Topographic Mapper
Datasets: Topography
Keywords: Greenland, Ice, Path, Laser Altimeter
DLESESubject: Cryology
Data Collected: 1993/06-1993/07, 1994/05-1994/06, 1998/06-1998/07, 1999/05
PAOID: g99-016_earth
Story: stories/greenland/index.html
Animation Series: Greenland



Please give credit for this visualization to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio


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