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Processed airborne radio-echo sounding data from the AGAP survey covering Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province, East Antarctica (2007/2009)

An airborne radar survey was flown as part of the seven nation Antarctica''s Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) expedition over the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, Dome A, and the interior of East Antarctica during the International Polar Year 2007-2009.

Operating from field camps located on either side of Dome A (namely AGAP-N and AGAP-S), we collected ~120,000 km (equivalent to 180,000 km2) of airborne survey data using two Twin Otter aircrafts - one from BAS and one from the United States Antarctic Program (USAP). The aircrafts were equipped with dual-frequency carrier-phase GPS for navigation, laser ranging systems, magnetometers, gravity meters, and ice-sounding radars.

We present here the full radar dataset from the BAS PASIN radar system consisting of the deep-sounding chirp and shallow-sounding pulse-acquired data in their processed form, as well as the navigational information of each trace, the surface and bed elevation picks, ice thickness, and calculated absolute surface and bed elevations. This dataset comes primarily in the form of NetCDF and georeferenced SEGY files. To interactively engage with this newly-published dataset, we also created segmented quicklook PDF files of the radar data.

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Alternate title
Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01544
Date (Publication)
2021-09-22
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01544
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation - Corr, H., Ferraccioli, F., Jordan, T., & Robinson, C.
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar
BAS Free-text keywords
  • Antarctic
  • aerogeophysics
  • ice thickness
  • radar
  • surface elevation
Use limitation

This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite the data in any publication as follows:

Corr, H., Ferraccioli, F., Jordan, T., & Robinson, C. (2021). Processed airborne radio-echo sounding data from the AGAP survey covering Antarctica''s Gamburtsev Province, East Antarctica (2007/2009) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/A1ABF071-85FC-4118-AD37-7F186B72C847

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

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This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite the data in any publication as follows:

Corr, H., Ferraccioli, F., Jordan, T., & Robinson, C. (2021). Processed airborne radio-echo sounding data from the AGAP survey covering Antarctica''s Gamburtsev Province, East Antarctica (2007/2009) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/A1ABF071-85FC-4118-AD37-7F186B72C847

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Elevation
  • Geoscientific information
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Begin date
2008-12-06
End date
2009-12-29
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1200109
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

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Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No
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- Trace spacing (post-processed data): ~20 m

- Vertical resolution: ~8.4 m

- Radar centre frequency: 150 MHz

- Radar bandwidth: 12 MHz

- Radar Receiver vertical sampling frequency: 22 MHz

- Absolute GPS positional accuracy: <1.0 m (relative accuracy is one order of magnitude better). Banking angle was limited to 10 deg during aircraft turns to avoid phase issues between GPS receiver and transmitter.

Flights were flown in a detailed survey grid with a line spacing of ~5 km and tie lines ~33 km apart.

Crossover analysis of the bed pick data along flight lines reveals RMS differences of ~64 m in bed elevation with a mean of 74 m, which primarily results from off-nadir reflections and interpretation/digitizing uncertainty.

Please note: The surface and bed pick information (surface and bed elevation, ice thickness, etc.) from both the BAS and USAP components of the radar survey can also be found at: https://doi.org/10.5285/0f6f5a45-d8af-4511-a264-b0b35ee34af6.

File identifier
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01544 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2021-09-22
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01544
 
 

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