ICESat-2 / community

A place to share code for working with ICESat-2 data

Introduction

This repository is intended to promote access to ICESat-2 data from NASA, by offering access to the latest community-driven code, and by bringing together tools developed by the scientific community for accessing, processing, and visualizing ICESat-2 data.

What this repository provides:

The main product of the ICESat-2 community repository is the document you are reading now. In it, we will keep a list of links to NASA-funded repositories. We would also like to host notebooks showing workflows for common ICESat-2 tasks.

How you can contribute:

If you have a link or a notebook that you would like to see here, please fork the repository, add your material, and submit a pull request.

ICESat-2 open-source projects

The ICESat-2 project has funded the development of several large-scale projects aimed at improving access to ICESat-2 data.

• IcePyx : A community-driven effort to provide data-access tools for ICESat-2 data

• SlideRule : A framework that allows high-performace data access and real-time generation of custom ICESat-2 products

• OpenAltimetry : A web-based browser for ICESat-2 data, that also allows access to underlying data structures

• altimetryFit : A framework for fitting smooth surfaces to a variety of types of altimetry data

Hackweeks

A number of ICESat-2 resources have been created as part of the ICESat-2 hackweeks:

• ICESat-2 hackweek

• SnowEx hackweek

PI-maintained repositories

Projects within the ICESat-2 science team have also generated some great open-source content. These may be at different levels of polish, but they almost certainly contain all the tools you might need to get up and running with ICESat-2 data.

• PhoREAL : A collection of software for analysis of ICESat-2 land and vegetation data.

• The Antarctic Rift Catalog Project : A project to map rifts in ice shelves around Antarctica

• CapToolkit : A do-it-all library of code for working with cryospheric altimetry data

• pointCollection : A library of code for basic interactions with point data (including ICESat-2 tools)

• Grounding-Zones : Tools for Estimating Grounding Zone Locations with data from NASA Polar Altimetry Missions

Data-product code repositories

Some of the higher-level products are generated using code that is available on github:

• ATL11 : Code to generate the ATL11 (Slope-Corrected Land Ice Height Time Series) product based on the ATL06 (Land-ice height) product.

• ATL14/15 : Code to generate the gridded ice-sheet DEM and height-change products from ATL11

Associated projects

Other projects that are friends and neighbors of ICESat-2

• CryoCloud : An all-encompassing community and hub for open-source work in the cryosciences