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Dataset

 

EOCIS: Ice Sheet Velocity, V1

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2025-04-18
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2025-04-17
DOI Publication Date: 2025-04-17
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 10 Files | 5GB

Abstract

This dataset contains Ice Sheet Velocity data produced within the Earth Observation Climate Information Service (EOCIS) project by the Satellite Ice Dynamics Group at the University of Leeds. The Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Velocity product provides annual means of ice speed (ice velocity magnitude) at 250 m resolution for the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 2015 to 2024. This dataset contains the key variables ice speed (annual mean of ice velocity magnitude for the Antarctic Ice Sheet), and ice speed uncertainty (mean uncertainty corresponding to the ice speed measurement).

These data are derived from ESA Sentinel-1 SAR Interferometric Wide (IW) mode data and match the spatial footprint of this source. These data cover the margin of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, including ice shelves, north of approximately 78°S.

Acronyms and/or abbreviations:
AIS - Antarctic Ice Sheet
EOCIS - Earth Observation Climate Information Service
ESA - European Space Agency
GIS - Geographic information system
IV - Ice velocity
SAR - Synthetic aperture radar

Citable as:  Hogg, A.E.; Davison, B.J.; Rigby, R.; Wallis, B.J.; Slater, R.A.W. (2025): EOCIS: Ice Sheet Velocity, V1. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 17 April 2025. doi:10.5285/c0b464b3da9845758cd33591e57c4abf. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/c0b464b3da9845758cd33591e57c4abf

Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Antarctic, Ice, Sheet, Velocity, Shelf, speed, annual, EOCIS

Details

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Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s):
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

This dataset was produced by Satellite Ice Dynamics Group, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds in the context of the Earth Observation Climate Information Service project. Processing was performed by GAMMA Remote Sensing.

Data Quality:
For more information on data quality see the associated documentation
File Format:
NetCDF

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

EOCIS Ice Sheet Velocity, V1

Abstract

These annual mosaics of ice velocity are generated from Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometric wide (IW) mode data. Measurements which are input these annual mosaics were generated using the intensity feature tracking method implemented with the GAMMA Remote Sensing software package. Georeferencing was completed within this processing chain using the NSIDC 1km Antarctic DEM (https://doi.org/10.5067/H0FQ1KL9NEKM) and the Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica version 1 (https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-665-2019). Annual mosaics are the mean of all available tracking results. For full details of the processing chain, please see: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21321-1 and https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36990-3.

Input Description

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Output Description

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Software Reference

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  • long_name: land_ice_surface_velocity_magnitude
  • units: m yr-1
  • var_id: ice_speed
  • var_id: ice_speed_uncertainty
  • long_name: land_ice_surface_velocity_magnitude_uncertainty
  • units: m yr-1
  • var_id: spatial_ref
  • var_id: x
  • standard_name: projection_x_coordinate
  • long_name: x coordinate of projection
  • units: metre
  • var_id: y
  • standard_name: projection_y_coordinate
  • long_name: y coordinate of projection
  • units: metre

Co-ordinate Variables

  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • units: days
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2015-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2024-12-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
-60.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-80.0000°