Airborne radar bed elevation picks across the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, 2005-2006

This data set contains bed and surface elevation picks derived from airborne radar collected during the WISE/ISODYN project. This collaborative UK/Italian project collected ~ 61000 line km of new aerogeophysical data during the 2005/2006 austral summer, over the previously poorly surveyed Wilkes subglacial basin, Dome C, George V Land and Northern Victoria Land.

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01075

Date (Publication): 2018-04-03

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01075

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK	Ferraccioli, F., Corr, H., Jordan, T., Robinson, C., Armadillo, E., & Armadillo, G.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar

BAS Free-text keywords

Antarctica
Dome C
Geophysics
George V Land
Ice thickness
Northern Victoria Land
Radar

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:

DATA REFERENCE

Ferraccioli F., Corr H, Jordan T.A., Robinson, C., Armadillo E., Bozzo E. & Caneva G. "Airborne radar bed elevation picks across the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, 2005-2006" (2018) Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK https://doi.org/10.5285/59e5a6f5-e67d-4a05-99af-30f656569401

LITERATURE REFERENCE

In prep.

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.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: 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:

DATA REFERENCE

Ferraccioli F., Corr H, Jordan T.A., Robinson, C., Armadillo E., Bozzo E. & Caneva G. "Airborne radar bed elevation picks across the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, 2005-2006" (2018) Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK https://doi.org/10.5285/59e5a6f5-e67d-4a05-99af-30f656569401

LITERATURE REFERENCE

In prep.

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.

Language: English

Topic category

Environment
Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2005-11-09

End date: 2006-01-27

Reference system identifier: OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
http		GET DATA

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification: INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines

Date

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: The standard deviation of the bed elevation for all crossover errors for the radar data is 33.3 m. However, this value is skewed by a few high error points in regions of more extreme topography. Over areas with smoother topography the standard deviation of the crossovers is ~10 m.

Resolution: The line spacing for the main survey area is 8.8km, with tie lines 44 km apart. Additional regional lines explore specific targets. The along track sample spacing is 20 m.