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Studinger: NASA’s Operation IceBridge is a six-year campaign
that monitors the sea ice and the land ice over the Arctic
and the Antarctic.Over the past couple of weeks
we have collected a tremendous data set over the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean
that will allow us to calibrate the European Space Agency’s
Cryosat 2 satellitee. And we were able to do this because we were
pooling resources between ESA’s Cryovex campaign
and NASA’s Operation IceBridge. And this joint data set will allow us
to build a joint time series of measurements in the Arctic Ocean
This was the second year in a row that we have collected data
on the ground in the air, and from satellite measurements at the same time,
and this data set will help us greatly to understand
the data and calibrate the data that are being collected by satellites from space.
The data sets that we are collecting
will also help develop better techniques for ICESat2
and together with all these satellite missions we hope to build
a very long time series, beginning with ICESat one,
covering over IceBridge, Cryosat 2, and
leading up to ICESat 2 in the future.
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