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PARIS
Pathfinder Advanced Radar Ice Sounder

The Pathfinder Advanced Radar Ice Sounder (PARIS) is an airborne radar sounder developed at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. It uses the Delay-Doppler (DD) technique to collect radar soundings of ice sheet layering and bottom topography to determine ice sheet thickness. PARIS operates at the center frequency of 150 MHz and has a bandwidth of 6 MHz. It has a range resolution of 17 meters in ice.

NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory passes Antarctica's tallest peak, Mount Vinson, on Oct. 22, 2012, during a flight over the continent to measure changes in the massive ice sheet and sea ice. Credit: NASA/Michael Studinger (Photography courtesy NASA Images)

Instrument Details

Radar
Earth Science > Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Glaciers/ice Sheets > Glacier Topography/ice Sheet Topography
Earth Science > Cryosphere > Glaciers/ice Sheets > Glacier Topography/ice Sheet Topography
Earth Science > Spectral/engineering > Radar > Radar Imagery
Earth Science > Cryosphere > Glaciers/ice Sheets
Earth Science > Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Glaciers/ice Sheets > Glacier Thickness/ice Sheet Thickness
Earth Science > Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Glaciers/ice Sheets
Earth Science > Cryosphere > Glaciers/ice Sheets > Glacier Thickness/ice Sheet Thickness
Earth Science > Spectral/engineering > Radar
Subsurface - Land, Land Surface
N/A
17 m
150 MHz
Currently unavailble
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Operation IceBridge

2009—2021
Greenland, Antarctica, Alaska, Arctic Sea
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37 Deployments
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10.5067/OMEAKG6GIJNBExternal Link
P-3 Orion
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