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This data could not exist without the collaboration of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge and the Technical University of Denmark in archiving and contributing this data.

This project was funded in part by a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Data License and Citation

All Antarctic film images and generated derivaties presented here are copyright Dustin Schroeder and the Scott Polar Research Institute, 2018. Greenland film images are copyright Dustin Schroeder and the Technical University of Denmark. Images from both datasets are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

If you make use of Antarctic data in a publication, we request that you cite the following paper describing the process of acquiring this data:

Dustin M. Schroeder, Julian A. Dowdeswell, Martin J. Siegert, Robert G. Bingham, Winnie Chu, Emma J. MacKie, Matthew R. Siegfried, Katherine I. Vega, John R. Emmons, and Keith Winstein. Multidecadal observations of the Antarctic ice sheet from restored analog radar records, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 17, 2019 116 (38) 18867-18873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821646116.

If you make use of data from Greenland in a publication, we request that you cite the following paper:

Karlsson, N.B., Schroeder, D.M., Sørensen, L.S., Chu, W., Dall, J., Andersen, N.H., Dobson, R., Mackie, E.J., Köhn, S.J., Steinmetz, J.E., Tarzona, A.S., Teisberg, T.O., Skou, N., 2024. A Newly Digitised Ice-penetrating Radar Data Set Acquired over the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1971–1979. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-442

Teisberg, T.O., Schroeder, D.M., 2023. Digital Tools for Analog Data: Reconstructing the First Ice-Penetrating Radar Surveys of Antarctica and Greenland, in: IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Presented at the IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE, Pasadena, CA, USA, pp. 44–47. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10281876

About this website

This website was created to facilitate public access to this data. It is built and maintained by the Stanford Radio Glaciology Group. We hope you enjoy it!

The website itself is open source (MIT License). You can check out the source on GitHub.

Contributors

This dataset is available thanks to the hard work of many contributors to this project. Most contributors are listed in alphabetic order.

Additional Data Sources

We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).

GIBS provides the background maps, optical imagery, and survey velocity data for the flight maps on this site. Specific data sources for each of these are identified in the bottom right of each map.