OpenAltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter data
NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) carries a laser altimeter that fires 10,000 pulses per second towards Earth and records the travel time of individual photons to measure the elevation of the surface below. The volume of data produced by ICESat-2, nearly a TB per day,...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5fb5m15p 2023-11-05T03:43:29+01:00 OpenAltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter data Khalsa, Siri Jodha S Borsa, Adrian Nandigam, Viswanath Phan, Minh Lin, Kai Crosby, Christopher Fricker, Helen Baru, Chaitan Lopez, Luis 1471 - 1480 2022-09-01 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fb5m15p unknown eScholarship, University of California qt5fb5m15p https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fb5m15p public Earth Science Informatics, vol 15, iss 3 Earth Sciences Cyberinfrastructure Data visualization Data discovery Altimetry ICESat-2 article 2022 ftcdlib 2023-10-09T18:05:36Z NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) carries a laser altimeter that fires 10,000 pulses per second towards Earth and records the travel time of individual photons to measure the elevation of the surface below. The volume of data produced by ICESat-2, nearly a TB per day, presents significant challenges for users wishing to efficiently explore the dataset. NASA's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), which is responsible for archiving and distributing ICESat-2 data, provides search and subsetting services on mission data products, but providing interactive data discovery and visualization tools needed to assess data coverage and quality in a given area of interest is outside of NSIDC's mandate. The OpenAltimetry project, a NASA-funded collaboration between NSIDC, UNAVCO and the University of California San Diego, has developed a web-based cyberinfrastructure platform that allows users to locate, visualize, and download ICESat-2 surface elevation data and photon clouds for any location on Earth, on demand. OpenAltimetry also provides access to elevations and waveforms for ICESat (the predecessor mission to ICESat-2). In addition, OpenAltimetry enables data access via APIs, opening opportunities for rapid access, experimentation, and computation via third party applications like Jupyter notebooks. OpenAltimetry emphasizes ease-of-use for new users and rapid access to entire altimetry datasets for experts and has been successful in meeting the needs of different user groups. In this paper we describe the principles that guided the design and development of the OpenAltimetry platform and provide a high-level overview of the cyberinfrastructure components of the system. Article in Journal/Newspaper National Snow and Ice Data Center University of California: eScholarship |
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NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) carries a laser altimeter that fires 10,000 pulses per second towards Earth and records the travel time of individual photons to measure the elevation of the surface below. The volume of data produced by ICESat-2, nearly a TB per day, presents significant challenges for users wishing to efficiently explore the dataset. NASA's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), which is responsible for archiving and distributing ICESat-2 data, provides search and subsetting services on mission data products, but providing interactive data discovery and visualization tools needed to assess data coverage and quality in a given area of interest is outside of NSIDC's mandate. The OpenAltimetry project, a NASA-funded collaboration between NSIDC, UNAVCO and the University of California San Diego, has developed a web-based cyberinfrastructure platform that allows users to locate, visualize, and download ICESat-2 surface elevation data and photon clouds for any location on Earth, on demand. OpenAltimetry also provides access to elevations and waveforms for ICESat (the predecessor mission to ICESat-2). In addition, OpenAltimetry enables data access via APIs, opening opportunities for rapid access, experimentation, and computation via third party applications like Jupyter notebooks. OpenAltimetry emphasizes ease-of-use for new users and rapid access to entire altimetry datasets for experts and has been successful in meeting the needs of different user groups. In this paper we describe the principles that guided the design and development of the OpenAltimetry platform and provide a high-level overview of the cyberinfrastructure components of the system. |
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Khalsa, Siri Jodha S Borsa, Adrian Nandigam, Viswanath Phan, Minh Lin, Kai Crosby, Christopher Fricker, Helen Baru, Chaitan Lopez, Luis |
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Khalsa, Siri Jodha S Borsa, Adrian Nandigam, Viswanath Phan, Minh Lin, Kai Crosby, Christopher Fricker, Helen Baru, Chaitan Lopez, Luis |
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OpenAltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter data |
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OpenAltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter data |
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OpenAltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter data |
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OpenAltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter data |
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OpenAltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter data |
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openaltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of spaceborne altimeter data |
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Earth Science Informatics, vol 15, iss 3 |
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