Abstract:
An airborne radar survey was flown as part of the GRADES-IMAGE project funded by BAS over the Evans Ice stream/Carson Inlet region mainly to image englacial layers and bedrock topography during the 2006/07 field season. Aeromagnetic data were also opportunistically collected.
We present here the bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding collected using the BAS PASIN radar depth sounding system.
Data are provided as XYZ ASCII line data.
Keywords:
Aerogeophysics, Antarctica, Radar, Surface elevation
Corr, H. (2020). Airborne radar bed elevation along flow lines covering the Evans, and Rutford Ice Streams, and ice rises in the Ronne Ice Shelf (2006/07) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/4efa688e-7659-4cbf-a72f-facac5d63998
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| Creation Date: | 2020-06-29 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | UK Polar Data Centre |
| Role(s) | Metadata Author |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Mr Hugh Corr |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
| Reference: | Ashmore, D.W., Bingham, R.G., Hindmarsh, R.C., Corr, H.F. and Joughin, I.R., 2014. The relationship between sticky spots and radar reflectivity beneath an active West Antarctic ice stream. Annals of Glaciology, 55(67), pp.29-38. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014AoG67A052 Fremand, A. C., Bodart, J. A., Jordan, T. A., Ferraccioli, F., Robinson, C., Corr, H. F. J., Peat, H. J., Bingham, R. G., and Vaughan, D. G.: British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 3379-3410, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3379-2022, 2022. |
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| Lineage/Methodology: | Radar data were collected using the PASIN radar echo sounding system. Data provided here includes picks of surface and ice sheet bed elevation. Note a single flight may contain data from two or more SEGY files, identified in the SEGYname channel. Surface elevation is derived from radar altimeter for ground clearance < 750 m, and the PASIN system for higher altitudes. Channel description: Basic Channels Name Description Date UTC date (YYYY/MM/DD) Time UTC time (HH:MM:SS.SS) FlightID Sequential flight number and survey ID e.g. W12 Line_no Line Number e.g. LW200.1 Lon Longitude WGS 1984 Lat Latitude WGS 1984 x x projected meters* y y projected meters* Height_WGS1984 Aircraft altitude (meters) in WGS 1984 Radar segy_name Radar_segy file name (BAS system). TraceNum Radar segy trace number (BAS system). PriNum Raw radar time (BAS system). surfPickLoc Location down trace of surface pick (BAS system). bedPickLoc Location down trace of bed elevation pick (BAS system). surfElev Surface elevation bedElev Ice bed elevation, derived by subtracting tice from surfElev tIce Ice thickness, derived from bedPickLoc and surfPickLoc. *Projected coordinates (x and y) are in Polar Stereographic: Latitude of natural origin: -71 Longitude of natural origin: 0 Scale factor at natural origin: 0.994 False easting 0 False northing 2082760.109 Positions are calculated for the phase centre of the aircraft antenna. All positions (Lat, lon and height) are referred to the WGS1984 ellipsoid. |
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| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 2006-12-29 |
| End Date | 2007-01-30 |
| Spatial Coverage: | |
| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | -81.9457 |
| Northernmost | -67.95411 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | -88.96693 |
| Easternmost | -61.292 |
| Altitude | |
| Min Altitude | N/A |
| Max Altitude | N/A |
| Depth | |
| Min Depth | N/A |
| Max Depth | N/A |
| Data Resolution: | |
| Latitude Resolution | N/A |
| Longitude Resolution | N/A |
| Horizontal Resolution Range | 30 meters - < 100 meters |
| Vertical Resolution | N/A |
| Vertical Resolution Range | N/A |
| Temporal Resolution | N/A |
| Temporal Resolution Range | N/A |
| Location: | |
| Location | Antarctica |
| Detailed Location | Ronne Ice Shelf |
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| Distribution: | |
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| Distribution Media | Online Internet (HTTP) |
| Distribution Size | 252 MB |
| Distribution Format | ASCII |
| Fees | N/A |
| Data Storage: | This dataset constains 1 ASCII XYZ file: - Grades_image_Radar.XYZ ~252MB |