Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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Accumulation Radar | Carl Leuschen (PI) | U Kansas | P-3 Orion - WFF | Radar | Snow Thickness, Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 600-900 MHz | when operated from aircraft | |||||
Coherent Radar Depth Sounder | CARDS | Prasad Gogineni (PI) | U Kansas | P-3 Orion - WFF | Sounder, Radar | Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder | MCoRDS | Carl Leuschen (PI) | U Kansas | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC | Radar | Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 20-60 MHz | |||||
Sea Ice Thickness Penetrating Radar Instrument | SITPRI | Ben Holt (PI) | U Kansas | Radar | Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 0.1-0.3 GHz; 0.8-1.2 GHz; 4-8 GHz | ice bottom surface | |||||
Slope Imaging Multi-polarization Photon-counting Lidar | SIMPL | David Harding (PI) | NASA GSFC | Learjet 25, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC | Lidar | Sea Ice Surface Elevation, Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Warm Ice Sounding Explorer | WISE | Yonggyu Gim (PI) | JPL | DC-3, Twin Otter - GRC | Sounder | Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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