Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Products

Products generated by the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI project

Details for product :

Upload date	17 Mar 2017
ECV	CFL
Product file	greenland_calving_front_locations_v3_0.zip
File size	72.3 MB

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Description :

CFLs for 28 Glaciers in Greenland, derived from ERS, Sentinel-1 and LANDSAT data acquired 1990-2016.

Comments :

Calving Fronts from 28 Glaciers in Greenland, derived by manual delineation using ERS-1/2 and Sentinel-1 SAR data and LANDSAT 5,7,8 imagery.

The calving front location is derived by manual delineation using ERS, Sentinel-1 SAR data and LANDSAT 5,7,8 imagery acquired from 1990-2016. 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.

The CFL Product zip file contains:

<Products>
    <Version>
        <Glacier>                       ...  directory with all files relevant to this
                                             glacier
                                             see "Detailed CFL product specifications"
                                             of "Product Specification Document"
                                             at http://esa-icesheets-greenland-cci.org/

        glaciers.*                      ...  shapefile, overview of glacier locations

<Documents>
        README                          ...  this README file
        DESCRIPTION                     ...  a very brief description of the product
        QUICKLOOK.png                   ...  a small image to represent the product on
                                             the web
        CFL_Greenland.3.0_20170317.jpg  ...  graphical overview of temporal coverage for
                                             each key glacier included in the product

ChangeLog:
v1.1: January 28, 2015 by markus.hetzenecker@enveo.at
added CFLs from Sepember 2014 of West Greenland

v2.0: June 6, 2016 by markus.hetzenecker@enveo.at
added CFLs from Sepember 2014 to December 2015
changed output format

v3.0: March 17, 2017 by joanna.ossowska@enveo.at
added additional CFLs for all glaciers covering
the period 1990-01-01 to 2016-12-31 derived from
SAR & optical data