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    • Glacier Inventory of West Greenland, 1948 - 1985, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    The inventory includes 5,297 Glaciers from west Greenland between 59 to 71 degrees latitude north and 43 to 53 degrees longitude west. The glacier data basin division is based on a simplified version of the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) system. Data are based on 1:250000 maps, Landsat imagery, and aerial photos that were taken between 1948 and 1985.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NSIDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2205521096-NSIDCV0
    Data First Published 1948-01-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 1985-12-31
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Glacier Inventory of West Greenland, 1948 - 1985, Version 1. Version 1. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, National Snow and Ice Data Center. https://doi.org/10.7265/N50Z715N.
    Harvest Object Id c455d66d-c2d1-4de4-a92c-3a6688431229
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.7265/N50Z715N
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -53.0 59.0 -43.0 71.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 0f314ce43597d05fcc53b942565c9525692ce8b6a7e37018c4152cb05d60bffb
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z/1985-12-31T23:59:59.999Z

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