06/18/2020 ICESat-2 Hackweek

• Nicole Abib

• Kelsey Bisson

• Alessandro Di Bella

• Ted Maksym

• Romina Piunno

• Rachel Tilling

• Molly Wieringa

Thanks to Lindsey Heagey and Joachim Meyer for the template, provided originally for Geohackweek.

Hackweek Goal: Query, Download, and Visualize coincident ICESat-2, Sentinel-2, and Argo Float data.

Long term goal: Create a package that will download data of interest for a specified time period and bounding box to study changing ice-ocean interactions & properties. This package will be modular so that other data products can easily be incorporated.

Specific goals:

1. Create a tool for identifying (near) co-indicdent measurements across varied datasets(specifically with Argo float data, MODIS and/or Sentinel imagery, and ICESat-2 tracks)

2. Formulate scripts to develop or isolate parameters from ATL03 data that might be relevant to larger science questions for which the above measurements are relevant

3. Become Python gods.

We would like to have 2 Notebooks as deliverables and a clear use-case story. We hope to develop some pretext for a potential GUI by incorporating widgets into the co-incident measurements tool.

Each team member has it's own folder under contributors, where he/she can work on their contribution. Having a dedicated folder for one-self helps to prevent conflicts when merging with master.

The project presentation is 'presentation.ipynb'

Other visualization notebooks and sandboxes for scrap work are included.

These include download scripts for ICESat-2, sentinel -2, MODIS, VIIRS, SeaWiFS. Argo download scripts are not included because at this time it is not possible to search an API for synthetic biogeochemical floats around a bounding box and time. Future development will include these tools and others. Colocated data scripts are included as well as basic scripts to interpret ATL03 and ATL07 attributes.