Tutorial: accessing ICESat-2 data (Room 345)

[JessicaS11]

Lead: JP Swinski
Date: 20/08/2024
Start Time: 0945
Duration: 45
Description: icepyx, SlideRule

Details

Learning Outcomes

• Participants will learn the multiple ways that exist for accessing and subsetting ICESat-2 data products
• Participants will have clarity on which method best matches their research needs
• Participants will know what new tools are in development

People Developing the Tutorial (content creation, helpers, teachers)

JP Swinski, Jessica Scheick

Summary Description

The tutorial will provide a decision tree for people to understand which tools are best to support their research needs with ICESat-2 data.

Example:

• If you already know one of the existing published ALT products already meets your needs, use icepyx to do a direct download
• If there are products that don't yet exist (e.g. snow on/snow off), you can use the SlideRule service to custom create your product
• If you have other needs (e.g. your own photon classifier, say to look at bathymetry), then you direct download some specific variables and you run your own custom algorithms

Dependencies (things people should know in advance of the tutorial)

• General understanding of the different ALT products (Tyler)
• Familiarity with EarthAccess data login
• General understanding of H5 data structures

Technical Needs (GPUs? Large file storage? Unique libraries?)

• Examples will be small, we'll make use of the temp directory

[aaarendt]

7/5/24: Meeting with JP, Jessica and Anthony

• we got clarity on learning outcomes and dependencies
• it would be great to build a graphic/decision tree to guide people in choosing the right set of data access tools for their needs

Can use content from here