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British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Tom A. Jordan
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Fausto Ferraccioli
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale,
Trieste, Italy
Carl Robinson
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Hugh F. J. Corr
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Helen J. Peat
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Robert G. Bingham
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
David G. Vaughan
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
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This paper presents the release of large swaths of airborne geophysical data (including gravity, magnetics, and radar) acquired between 1994 and 2020 over Antarctica by the British Antarctic Survey. These include a total of 64 datasets from 24 different surveys, amounting to >30 % of coverage over the Antarctic Ice Sheet. This paper discusses how these data were acquired and processed and presents the methods used to standardize and publish the data in an interactive and reproducible manner.
This paper presents the release of large swaths of airborne geophysical data (including gravity,...
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