Data · collection
Radio-Echo Sounding Database (RESPAC)
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
The RESPAC package is intended to facilitate access to the digitised airborne radar sounding data currently held by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
Description
It is a database of ice thickness and surface elevation of the Antarctic ice sheet. The database covers 371,000 line km of continent.
It holds radio-echo sounding (RES) data from two sources. Firstly, data collected from approximately 280 BAS flights covering 131,000 km of airborne survey flown between 1966 and 1987. Secondly, data collected jointly by the Scott Polar Research Institute/Technical University of Denmark/US National Science Foundation (SPRI/NUD/NSF) consortium between 1971 and 1979 and covering 24 000 km.
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RESPAC uses 'cartoon' database that enables rapid retrieval, from the relatively large amount of data present, of sections of flightlines pertinent to an area selected. It comprises two main programs - RESMAP and RESPROF. RESMAP produces maps and overlays of flight tracks in plan view (i.e. maps at specific scales and projections).
Subsidiary data such as coast lines and trig. points may also be plotted. RESPROF produces sectional views of flight lines.
Links
Documentation and papers
- antarctica.ac.uk /mdms/DIFDir/92347576317562.html ↗
Use related URL to access primary copy of metadata record from the BAS Metadata Management System. Gives detailed, up to date metadata description, which this DIF has been derived from.
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214608624-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214608624-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- ECHO SOUNDERS · Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation · Ice Depth/Thickness · Not provided
- Inferred from text
- Geophysics 69%
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214608624-SCIOPS | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3706 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:echo-sounders | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/cryosphere/glaciers-ice-sheets/glacier-elevation-ice-sheet-elevation | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/cryosphere/snow-ice/ice-depth-thickness | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |