icesat2-toolkit 1.3.1
Python tools for obtaining and working with elevation data from the NASA ICESat-2 mission
License: MIT
Keywords: ICESat-2 laser altimetry,ATLAS,surface elevation and change

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read-ICESat-2
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Python tools for obtaining and working with elevation data from the NASA ICESat-2 mission

- https://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov
- https://icesat-2-scf.gsfc.nasa.gov
- https://nsidc.org/data/icesat-2/

ICESat-2 Data Products
######################

+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
|  Product  |             Name             |                Description                |
+===========+==============================+===========================================+
| **ATL00** | Telemetry Data               | Raw ATLAS telemetry in packet format      |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL01** | Reformatted Telemetry        | Parsed, partially reformatted into HDF5,  |
|           |                              | generated daily, segmented into several   |
|           |                              | minute granules                           |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL02** | Science Unit Converted       | Photon time of flight, corrected for      |
|           | Telemetry                    | instrument effects. Includes all photons, |
|           |                              | pointing data, spacecraft position,       |
|           |                              | housekeeping data, engineering data, and  |
|           |                              | raw atmospheric profiles, segmented into  |
|           |                              | several minute granules.                  |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL03** | Global Geolocated Photon     | Precise latitude, longitude and elevation |
|           | Data                         | for every received photon, arranged by    |
|           |                              | beam in the along-track direction.        |
|           |                              | Photons classified by signal vs.          |
|           |                              | background, as well as by surface type    |
|           |                              | (land ice, sea ice, land, ocean),         |
|           |                              | including all geophysical corrections.    |
|           |                              | Segmented into several minute granules.   |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL04** | Uncalibrated Backscatter     | Along-track atmospheric backscatter data, |
|           | Profiles                     | 25 times per second. Includes calibration |
|           |                              | coefficients for polar regions. Segmented |
|           |                              | into several minute granules.             |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL06** | Land Ice Elevation           | Surface height for each beam with along-  |
|           |                              | and across-track slopes calculated for    |
|           |                              | each beam pair. Posted at 40 meters       |
|           |                              | along-track. Segmented into several       |
|           |                              | minute granules.                          |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL07** | Arctic/Antarctic Sea Ice     | Height of sea ice and open water leads at |
|           | Elevation                    | varying length scale based on returned    |
|           |                              | photon rate for each beam presented       |
|           |                              | along-track. Segmented into several       |
|           |                              | minute granules.                          |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL08** | Land Water Vegetation        | Height of ground including canopy surface |
|           | Elevation                    | posted at variable length scales relative |
|           |                              | to signal level, for each beam presented  |
|           |                              | along-track. Where data permits include   |
|           |                              | canopy height, canopy cover percentage,   |
|           |                              | surface slope and roughness, and apparent |
|           |                              | reflectance.                              |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL09** | Calibrated Backscatter and   | Along-track cloud and other significant   |
|           | Cloud Characteristics        | atmosphere layer heights, blowing snow,   |
|           |                              | integrated backscatter, and optical       |
|           |                              | depth.                                    |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL10** | Arctic/Antarctic Sea Ice     | Estimate of sea ice freeboard over        |
|           | Freeboard                    | specific spatial scales using all         |
|           |                              | available sea surface height              |
|           |                              | measurements. Contains statistics of sea  |
|           |                              | surface and sea ice heights.              |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL11** | Antarctic/Greenland Ice      | Time series of height at points on the    |
|           | Sheet H(t) Series            | ice sheet, calculated based on repeat     |
|           |                              | tracks and/or cross-overs.                |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL12** | Ocean Elevation              | Surface height at specific length scale.  |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL13** | Inland Water Height          | Along-track inland and near shore water   |
|           |                              | surface height distribution within water  |
|           |                              | mask.                                     |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL14** | Antarctic/Greenland Ice      | Height maps of each ice sheet for each    |
|           | Sheet H(t) Gridded           | year based on all available elevation     |
|           |                              | data.                                     |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL15** | Antarctic/Greenland Ice      | Height change maps for each ice sheet,    |
|           | Sheet dh/dt Gridded          | for each mission year, and for the whole  |
|           |                              | mission.                                  |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL16** | ATLAS Atmosphere Weekly      | Polar cloud fraction, blowing snow        |
|           |                              | frequency, ground detection frequency.    |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL17** | ATLAS Atmosphere Monthly     | Polar cloud fraction, blowing snow        |
|           |                              | frequency, ground detection frequency.    |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL18** | Land/Canopy Gridded          | Gridded ground surface height, canopy     |
|           |                              | height, and canopy cover estimates.       |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL19** | Mean Sea Surface (MSS)       | Gridded ocean height product.             |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL20** | Arctic/Antarctic Gridded Sea | Gridded sea ice freeboard.                |
|           | Ice Freeboard                |                                           |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| **ATL21** | Arctic/Antarctic Gridded Sea | Gridded monthly sea surface height inside |
|           | Surface Height w/in Sea Ice  | the sea ice cover.                        |
+-----------+------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+


ICESat-2 Granules
#################

Each orbit of ICESat-2 data is broken up into 14 granules.
The granule boundaries limit the size of each ATL03 file and simplify the formation of higher level data products.

.. image:: ./doc/source/_assets/ICESat-2_granules_global.png
  :alt: ICESat-2 global granules

.. image:: ./doc/source/_assets/ICESat-2_granules_polar.png
  :alt: ICESat-2 polar granules

Dependencies
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- `numpy: Scientific Computing Tools For Python <https://numpy.org>`_
- `scipy: Scientific Tools for Python <https://docs.scipy.org/doc//>`_
- `mpi4py: Python bindings of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) <https://mpi4py.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_
- `h5py: Python interface for Hierarchal Data Format 5 (HDF5) <http://h5py.org>`_
- `netCDF4: Python interface to the netCDF C library <https://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/>`_
- `zarr: Chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays in Python <https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python>`_
- `pandas: Python Data Analysis Library <https://pandas.pydata.org/>`_
- `scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python <https://scikit-learn.org/stable/index.html>`_
- `dateutil: powerful extensions to datetime <https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_
- `shapely: PostGIS-ish operations outside a database context for Python <http://toblerity.org/shapely/index.html>`_
- `fiona: Python wrapper for vector data access functions from the OGR library <https://fiona.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html>`_
- `future: Compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3 <http://python-future.org/>`_
- `boto3: Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Python <https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/index.html>`_
- `s3fs: Pythonic file interface to S3 built on top of botocore <https://s3fs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_
- `lxml: processing XML and HTML in Python <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml>`_
- `paramiko: Native Python SSHv2 protocol library <http://www.paramiko.org>`_
- `scp: scp module for paramiko <https://github.com/jbardin/scp.py>`_
- `yapc: Python version of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center YAPC Program <https://github.com/tsutterley/yapc>`_

Download
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| The program homepage is:
| https://github.com/tsutterley/read-icesat-2
| A zip archive of the latest version is available directly at:
| https://github.com/tsutterley/read-icesat-2/archive/main.zip

Disclaimer
##########

This project contains work and contributions from the `scientific community <./CONTRIBUTORS.rst>`_.
This program is not sponsored or maintained by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) or NASA.
It is provided here for your convenience but *with no guarantees whatsoever*.

License
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The content of this project is licensed under the
`Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Attribution license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>`_
and the source code is licensed under the `MIT license <LICENSE>`_.