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OpenAltimetry

General Information

OpenAltimetry is a cyberinfrastructure platform for discovery, access, and visualization of data from NASA’s ICESat and ICESat-2 missions. These laser profiling altimeters are being used to measure changes in the topography of Earth’s ice sheets, vegetation canopy structure, and clouds and aerosols. A new paradigm for data access was required to serve the needs of a diverse scientific community seeking to take advantage of these unique observations. OpenAltimetry, which is the product of a collaboration between UNAVCO, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, was custom-built to meet these needs.

Homepage https://openaltimetry.org/

Countries that developed this resource United States

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Cryosphere

Topography

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: OpenAltimetry; OpenAltimetry; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.M2wo0O; Last edited: Nov. 15, 2020, 10:43 a.m.; Last accessed: Jul 27 2021 4 a.m.

Publication for citation OpenAltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter data Siri Jodha S. Khalsa, Adrian Borsa, Viswanath Nandigam, Minh Phan, Kai Lin, Christopher Crosby, Helen Fricker, Chaitan Baru, Luis Lopez ; Earth Science Informatics ; 2020.

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contact form	Contact
online documentation	About the Project
online documentation	About the Data
twitter	OpenAltimetry Twitter

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OpenAltimetry Web Interface	https://openaltimetry.org/
Browse ICESAT Data	https://openaltimetry.org/data/icesat/
Browse ICESAT-2 Data	https://openaltimetry.org/data/icesat2/

REST Web Services

OpenTopography API

https://openaltimetry.org/data/swagger-ui/

Publications

OpenAltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter data

Siri Jodha S. Khalsa, Adrian Borsa, Viswanath Nandigam, Minh Phan, Kai Lin, Christopher Crosby, Helen Fricker, Chaitan Baru, Luis Lopez
Earth Science Informatics 2020

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OpenTopography

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NASA (Government body)

Maintains

San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla CA 92093-0505 (University)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, US (Research institute) Lead
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Boulder, CO, USA (Research institute)
UNAVCO (Consortium)

Grant Number(s)

NNX16AL89A (NASA)

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