Last updated
May 31, 2022
Terms of use
Open use. Must provide the source.

Description

This dataset comprises of a post-processed set of terrestrial laser scans (TLS’s) of Antarctic sea ice obtained during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment-2 (SIPEX-2, http://seaice.acecrc.org.au/sipex2012/) in September-November 2012. The post-processing steps include the registration of the individual scans into a single 3-dimensional point cloud, the removal of unwanted noise caused by particles in the air (i.e., snow crystals), and the final generation of surface grids based on the cleaned individual point returns. The final product includes the ‘xyz’ coordinates of the individual point measurements, and gridded surfaces covering study areas of 100m x 100 m, and at resolutions of 0.01 m, 0.1 m, 0.25 m, 0.5 m and 1 m for each of the survey dates. Additionally, subgrid statistics that include the mean elevation, standard deviation, minimum and maximum elevations, range, and number of point returns in each gridcell are generated. The final product is provided in space-delimited text files, with the surface grids provided in Digital Terrain Model (DTM) format ready for visualization in any GIS software.

How to cite: Please also cite the original publication when using this data set.: Trujillo, E., K. Leonard, T. Maksym, and M. Lehning (2016), Changes in snow distribution and surface topography following a snowstorm on Antarctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JF003893.

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Additional information

Identifier
c88b82ed-d54e-43e6-b4e4-7ae1ee06a014@envidat
Issued date
October 16, 2016
Modified date
May 31, 2022
Publisher
EnviDat
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Languages
English
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Landing page
https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/10-16904-9
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Ernesto Trujillo