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Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding across the Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains (1998/99 season)
GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01344

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Abstract:
A British Antarctic Survey Twin Otter and survey team acquired 8,300 line-km of aerogeophysics data during the Austral summer of 1998/99. Gravity and radio-echo data were acquired simultaneously with the magnetic data at a compromise constant barometric height of 2,200 m, which provides a terrain clearance of 100 m over the highest peaks. Two separate surveys were conducted; one at 5 km line spacing (tie lines at 20 km) over and stretching beyond the southern extent of the Forrestal range (main survey), and one at 2 km line spacing (tie lines at 8 km) covering the Dufek Massif (detailed survey).

Ashtech Z12 dual frequency GPS receivers were used for survey navigation. Pseudorange data were supplied to a Picodas PNAV navigation interface computer, which was used to guide the pilot along the pre-planned survey lines. The actual flight path was recovered, using carrier-phase, continuous, kinematic GPS processing techniques. All pseudorange navigation data were recorded at 1 Hz on a Picodas PDAS 1000, PC-based data acquisition system.

We present here the processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding collected using the "BAS-built" radar system (Corr and Popple, 1994; Fremand, Bodart et al., 2022), which used a 4 us linear frequency modulated pulse in addition to a standard short 0.25 us pulse
Data are provided as XYZ ASCII line data.

Keywords:
Aerogeophysics, Antarctica, Radar, Surface elevation

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Corr, H. (2020). Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding across the Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains (1998/99 season) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/5e2cf315-9265-4605-8643-382f2557009b

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