Dataset: Ice features digitised from satellite images

Description

The Australian Antarctic Data Centre digitises on-screen topographic features from satellite images as required for various projects and applications.

Features digitised include the ice shelves, glacier tongues and icebergs.

The resulting GIS data is available for download. See a Related URL below.

The data conform to the SCAR Feature Catalogue which includes data quality information. Each feature has a Qinfo number which, when entered at the 'Search datasets and quality' tab, provides data quality information for the feature.

General Information

• Australian Antarctic Division
• Create Date: 10/12/2015
• Update Date: 11/08/2023
• Landing Page: https://data.gov.au/dataset/51732ec8-2077-4fd9-8edb-e8a573c2fba4
• Keywords:
  • AMD
  • AMD-AU
  • CEOS
  • CONTINENT - ANTARCTICA
  • EARTH SCIENCE - CRYOSPHERE - GLACIERS-ICE SHEETS - ICE SHEETS
  • EARTH SCIENCE - CRYOSPHERE - GLACIERS-ICE SHEETS - ICEBERGS
  • EARTH SCIENCE - CRYOSPHERE - SEA ICE - ICEBERGS
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION - POLAR
  • ice shelf
  • ice tongue
  • iceberg

Distributions

• Point of truth URL of this metadata record
  • Format: N/A
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
  • Create Date: 11/12/2015
  • Update Date: 10/12/2015
• Download the shapefiles for ice shelf, glacier tongue and iceberg data.
  • Format: SHP
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
  • Create Date: 11/12/2015
  • Update Date: 10/12/2015
• Search the SCAR Feature Catalogue
  • Format: HTML
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
  • Create Date: 11/12/2015
  • Update Date: 10/12/2015
• Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
  • Format: N/A
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
  • Create Date: 11/12/2015
  • Update Date: 10/12/2015