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ICESat-2

ICESat-2 is in a polar orbit to investigate ice sheets1 using its Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS).

We currently support the ATL03, ATL06, ATL08 and ATL12 data products (at version 5).

See their website.

Use ICESat2.Quality with filter or in an operation pipeline to retain the quality subset defined by ATL03, ATL06, or ATL08.

Products

  • ATL03 — Geolocated Photons
  • ATL06 — Land Ice Height
  • ATL08 — Vegetation Height
  • ATL12 — Ocean Surface Height

  1. Markus, Thorsten, Tom Neumann, Anthony Martino, Waleed Abdalati, Kelly Brunt, Beata Csatho, Sinead Farrell, et al. 2017. "The Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science Requirements, Concept, and Implementation." Remote Sensing of Environment 190 (March): 260–73. https://doi.org/10/gg3f7c. ↩