Scientific benefits
Ice sheet modelling: BEDMAP will provide a range of gridded data sets describing surface elevation, ice thickness and bed elevation. Additional parameters such as bed roughness may also be extracted. Eventually provide access to original data for more detailed products.
Other disciplines to benefit will include;
Geology: improved tectonic and structural interpretation
Gravity: improved interpretation of gravity/geoid anomalies
Magnetics: improved interpretation of magnetic anomalies especially the continent wide magnetic anomaly map, ADMAP.
Geophysics: improved models of isostasy and sea level
Ice cores: improved interpretation of the flow characteristics upstream of ice core drilling sites leading to improved dating of ice cores