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ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Calving Front Locations, v1.1
The data set provides calving front locations of major outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet from SAR data from various sensors, produced as part of the ESA Greenland Ice Sheets Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project. Version 1.1 of the dataset has been updated to include information from Sentinel 1 data.
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. From the ice velocity at the calving front and the time sequence of Calving Front Locations the iceberg calving rate can be computed which is of relevance for estimating the export of ice mass to the ocean.
The calving front location has been derived by manual delineation based on SAR or optical satellite data. The CFL product is a collection of ESRI shapefile in latitude and longitude, on WGS84 projection. The basic data are vector line files (not polygons).
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-04-11T15:58:34
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-04-11T15:58:34
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 70eae17a47e64c8597defcb0ed155dea
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- Greenland Ice Sheet
- ESA
- CCI
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2015-12-31T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Data are Esri Shape file formatted. (See greenland_cfl_v1_1_meta.pdf for further information)
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Data are Esri Shape file formatted. (See greenland_cfl_v1_1_meta.pdf for further information)
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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The ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project
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Greenland Calving Front Locations Dataset Metadata pdf
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Sample Image
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Product User Guide
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were processed by the ESA CCI Greenland Ice Sheet project team and supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.
- File identifier
- 70eae17a47e64c8597defcb0ed155dea XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland Ice Sheet CCI) Dataset Collection 394464f9c39445d3b6445d8e305841d7
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:06:36
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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