NASA Earthdata Webinar: Ic eFlow and icepyx: Python tools for Harmonizing Laser Altimetry Datasets in an Open Science Framework
When: Wednesday 28 April 2021, 02:00 PM – 03:0 PM (Eastern Daylight Savi ngs Time [UTC/GMT-4])
Overview: Since 2003, NASA’s ICESat, IceBridge, and ICESat-2 missions have c ollected valuable information on the evolution of land and sea ice using la ser altimetry technology. However, combining these disparate and large-volu me data products, available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), presents a challenge in te rms of varied data formats, coordinate reference systems, spatial coverage, and discovery and access methods.
This webinar will introduce and demonstrate two Python-based tools that offer so lutions to these persistent challenges. NSIDC DAAC’s IceFlow API and Jupyte r Notebook harmonize these data products into similar formats and apply the necessary geophysical corrections for users to immediately access, compare , and visualize decades of data in a single workflow. The open-source icepy x project is both a software library and a community composed of ICESat-2 d ata users, developers, and the scientific community, who are working togeth er to develop a shared library of resources that simplify the process of qu erying, obtaining, analyzing, and manipulating ICESat-2 datasets to enable scientific discovery. While this presentation will focus on cryospheric app lications of these NASA missions, the challenges they address are not uniqu e to the broader Earth science community. They also demonstrate what is pos sible within and across disciplines when tools are developed using an open science framework.
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Amy Steiker and Nicholas Kotlin ski, NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Cent er (NSIDC DAAC)
Dr. Jessica Scheick, Uni versity of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center
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