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This radar interferogram combines two acquisition by Sentinel-1A radar from 20 January and 1 February 2015 over the Vestfonna and Austfonna ice caps on the Nordaustlandet Island, Svalbard. A strip of ice-free land sits between the two ice caps. Over the 12-day period, the outlet glaciers flowed at an average of 3 cm per day.