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 Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)
Launch Date: January 12, 2003
Launch Location: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
ICESat provides primarily ice sheet and sea ice altimetry products with secondary products being cloud/aerosol and land/vegetation data. In particular, the mission determines variations of ice sheet elevation through time over Greenland and Antarctica, altitude and thickness of clouds and aerosol layers, vegetation properties, land topography, and ocean surface and sea ice altimetry.
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ICESat Project Scientist: H. Jay Zwally
Instruments List
- GLAS (Geoscience Laser Altimeter System)
- GPSP (Global Positioning System Payload)
Relevant Science Focus Areas
- Climate Variability and Change
- Earth Surface and Interior
- Water and Energy Cycles
Relevant Science Questions
- How does the Earth system respond to natural and human-induced changes?
- How is the global Earth system changing?
Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Science Goals
Provide repeated, precision, polar ice sheet elevations through time for improved mass-balance measurements
Provide atmosphere-cloud heights and aerosol distribution data
Provide land topography and vegetation cover data
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