Bedmap is a collaborative community project with the aim to produce a new map and datasets of Antarctic ice thickness and bed topography for the international glaciology and geophysical community, using a variety of data (including ice-thickness, bathymetry, surface altitude and grounding lines).
The Bedmap Portal (bedmap.scar.org) provides a direct access to the ice thickness, bed and surface elevation datasets. An associated Geophysics Book gives the list of data available and provides interactive codes to help you use the data with Python.
The Bedmap portal
For more information:
Pritchard, H.D., Fretwell, P.T., Fremand, A.C. et al. Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for Antarctica. Sci Data12, 414 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04672-y
In a significant milestone for Antarctic research, detailed and extensive information on ice thickness and bed topography is now available for the first time in a centralised and standardised format. …
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