Data Summaries

List of Data Products

Note: L1A, L1B, and L2 in the data set titles refer to data processing levels, not laser identifiers. Click on the Long Name to view documentation.

GLAS Data Products

Short Name	Long Name	File Size	Orbits per File	Files Per Day
GLA01	GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Altimetry Data	9 MB	1/4	56
GLA02	GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Atmosphere Data	671 MB	2	7
GLA03	GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Engineering Data	19 MB	2	7
GLA04	GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Laser Pointing Data	2 MB - 386 MB	2	4
GLA05	GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Waveform-based Range Corrections Data	25 MB	1/4	56
GLA06	GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Elevation Data	7 MB	1/4	56
GLA07	GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Backscatter Data	827 MB	2	7
GLA08	GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Planetary Boundary Layer and Elevated Aerosol Layer Heights	7 MB	14	1
GLA09	GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Cloud Heights for Multi-layer Clouds	82 MB	14	1
GLA10	GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Aerosol Vertical Structure Data	289 MB>	14	1
GLA11	GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Thin Cloud/Aerosol Optical Depths Data	13 MB	14	1
GLA12	GLAS/ICESat L2 Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet Altimetry Data	104 MB	14	1
GLA13	GLAS/ICESat L2 Sea Ice Altimetry Data	107 MB	14	1
GLA14	GLAS/ICEsat L2 Global Land Surface Altimetry Data	209 MB	14	1
GLA15	GLAS/ICESat L2 Ocean Altimetry Data	279 MB	14	1

See Preliminary ICESat/GLAS Data for information about the preliminary versions of ICESat/GLAS products first released on 31 October 2003.