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Surface Topography

Physical PropertiesData CenterSelected Data Sets and Data Collections
Complete data set listings available through each individual data center.
Surface Topography
Elevation, slope, DEMs
ASF SDC
http://www.asf.alaska.edu
  • RADARSAT-1, ERS-1, ERS-2, JERS-1 and PALSAR SAR images
  • UAVSAR- Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar
CDDIS
http://cddis.gsfc.nasa.gov
  • Ground Network/Satellite Measurements: Daily, hourly, and sub-hourly code and phase observations from GNSS ground network; Daily and sub-daily GNSS satellite orbits and clocks; Daily and hourly files of round trip time of flight from satellite laser ranging (SLR) ground network; Time-tagged range-rate measurements from DORIS ground network
  • Station positions and velocities from GNSS, SLR, VLBI and DORIS ground networks
LP DAAC
https://lpdaac.usgs.gov
  • ASTER Level 3 Digital Elevation Model
  • ASTER Level 3 Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) 1 Arc-Second
NSIDC DAAC
http://nsidc.org/daac
  • Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model Version 2
  • RAMP AMM-1 SAR Image Mosaic of Antarctica
  • GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Land Surface Altimetry Data
  • GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Elevation Data
  • Greenland 5 km DEM, Ice Thickness, and Bedrock Elevation Grids
  • Antarctic 5-km Digital Elevation Model from ERS-1 Altimetry
  • MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA) Image Map
  • GLAS/ICESat 500 m Laser Altimetry Digital Elevation Model of Antarctica
  • GLAS/ICESat 1 km Laser Altimetry Digital Elevation Model of Greenland
  • Operation IceBridge Aircraft Data Sets (a large collection of data sets bridging the ICESat-1 and ICESat-2 missions)
ORNL DAAC
http://daac.ornl.gov
  • FLUXNET, MODIS ASCII Subset, and Net Primary Productivity (NPP) site elevation and other topographic feature extraction with WebGIS