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ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Calving Front Locations, v3.0

The data set provides calving front locations of 28 major outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet, produced as part of the ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project.



The Calving Front Location (CFL) of outlet glaciers from ice sheets is a basic parameter for ice dynamic modelling, for computing the mass fluxes at the calving gate, and for mapping glacier area change.



The calving front location has been derived by manual delineation using SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) data from the ERS-1/2, Envisat and Sentinel-1 satellites and satellite imagery from LANDSAT 5,7,8. The digitized calving fronts are stored in ESRI vector shape-file format and include metadata information on the sensor and processing steps in the corresponding attribute table.



The product was generated by ENVEO (Environmental Earth Observation Information Technology GmbH)

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Date (Publication)
2019-05-21T13:48:24
Date (Creation)
2019-05-21T13:48:24
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8889dfe3de45406e815bce13ae8a0c92
Citation identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 8889dfe3de45406e815bce13ae8a0c92
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI project team

unknown

Author

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Custodian

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

pointofContact

CCI Open Data Portal

support@ceda.ac.uk

pointofContact

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Publisher
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Update scope
Dataset
Keywords
  • ice sheets
  • ice sheets
  • ERS-1
  • ERS-2
  • Landsat-5
  • Landsat-7
  • Landsat-8
  • Sentinel-1A
  • Sentinel-1B
  • AMI-SAR
  • ETM+
  • TIRS
  • TM
  • SAR-C (Sentinel-1)
  • Greenland

  • Ice sheet

  • CCI

  • ESA

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • orthoimagery

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_icesheets_greenland_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Spatial representation type
Grid
Language
English
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
2014-10-01T00:00:00
End date
2020-12-31T22:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
Name Version

Dara are ESRI vector shape-file format and include metadata information on the sensor and processing steps in the corresponding attribute table

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8889dfe3de45406e815bce13ae8a0c92

CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ice_sheets_greenland/data/greenland_calving_front_locations/v3.0/

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.esa-icesheets-greenland-cci.org/index.php?q=webfm_send/165

Product User Guide

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk//neodc/esacci/ice_sheets_greenland/metadata/sample_images/greenland_calving_front_locations_v3_0_QUICKLOOK.png

Sample Image

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/

ESA Climate Change Initiative website

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/projects/ice-sheets-greenland/

ESA CCI Greenland Ice Sheet project website

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

Data were produced by ENVEO (Environmental Earth Observation Information Technology GmbH) as part of the ESA CCI Greenland Ice Sheet project and were supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.

Metadata

File identifier
8889dfe3de45406e815bce13ae8a0c92 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Parent identifier
ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland Ice Sheet CCI) Dataset Collection

394464f9c39445d3b6445d8e305841d7

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-01-15T03:16:01
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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