ICESat-2 Summer Sea Ice Cal/Val

The Campaign

The ICESat-2 Summer Sea Ice Cal/Val campaign focused on acquiring airborne lidar measurements to evaluate ICESat-2 Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) retrievals of summer sea ice heights and melt pond characteristics. It consisted of a single deployment over Northwestern Greenland and the Arctic Ocean in July 2022. The NASA G-V aircraft was equipped with the Leica Chiroptera-4x (CHIR) and the Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) to collect lidar measurements of sea ice topography and bathymetry coincident with ICESat-2 overpasses. The ICESat-2 Summer Sea Ice Cal/Val campaign was conducted by scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and NASA.

Additional Notes

Repositories

• other NASA repository not formally considered a DAAC by ESDS