National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-glah04

GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Laser Pointing Data (HDF5)

Level-1A global laser pointing data (GLAH04) contain two orbits of attitude data from the spacecraft star tracker, instrument star tracker, gyro, and laser reference system, and other spacecraft attitude data required to calculate precise laser pointing.

http://nsidc.org/data/GLAH04

Identified by : GLAH04

This dataset was released on April 15, 2013.

The time range for this dataset is February 20, 2003 to October 11, 2009.

The spatial range for this dataset is -86° to 86° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the geoscience-laser-altimeter-system instrument on the ice-cloud-and-land-elevation-satellite platform.
DOI : 10.5067/ICESAT/GLAS/DATA104
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/GLAH04 (nsidc lexicon)