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Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier ice front positions, 1985-2018
Ice front positions for Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, Greenland, based on digitisation of satellite images between 1985 to 2018.
Funding: The data have been collected over many years. Most recent project funding is NERC project CALISMO NE/P011365/1.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2018-12-06
- Date (Revision)
- 2018-12-06
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-12-06
- Date (released)
- 2018-12-06
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1.0
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/b317f707-2ef6-449c-acc3-6bb087efecb1
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- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01120
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- Unique resource identifier
- NE/P011365/1
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Please cite this item as: Bevan, S., & Luckman, A. (2019). Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier ice front positions, 1985-2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/b317f707-2ef6-449c-acc3-6bb087efecb1
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No credit.
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- Completed
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Swansea University
Bevan, Suzanne Author Swansea University
Luckman, Adrian Author NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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- As needed
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- Completed
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Ice front positions
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Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier
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- Place
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Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, Greenland Arctic
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- Open Government Licence v3.0
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This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy: https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/nerc/our-policies-and-standards/nerc-data-policy/
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This data is governed by the NERC data policy and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3
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No restrictions apply.
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- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
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- Begin date
- 1985-04-01
- End date
- 2018-11-11
- Supplemental Information
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It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role European Petroleum Survey Group
Publisher
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
- Version
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6.18.3
Distributor
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Distributor
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Name Version text/plain
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- 15360
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=b317f707-2ef6-449c-acc3-6bb087efecb1 Get Data
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Methodology:
The ice front of Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier was manually digitised on 733 satellite images acquired between April 1985 and November 2018. The satellite images include Landsat 5, Landsat 7, Landsat 8, ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat Image Mode and Wideswath Mode, TerraSAR-X and Sentinel 1A and B Interferometric mode Ground Range Detected (IW GRD) images. The intersection points of the frontal vectors with 23 straight flow-parallel lines spaced at 160 m intervals were averaged to create mean ice-front positions.
Data collection:
The digitisation was carried out using Gamma Remote Sensing software module Polyras. There are 733 data points.
Data quality:
The accuracy of the data varies according to the initial spatial resolution and geolocation of the images and is likely to improve throughout the time sequence as processing and orbit vectors have improved. Bevan et al. (2012) estimated the accuracy for all types of imagery up to 2012 to be at least +/- 76 m.
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- b317f707-2ef6-449c-acc3-6bb087efecb1 XML
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- English
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2018-12-06
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ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
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ISO 19115:2003(E)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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