1 PoDAG XXX: IceBridgeOctober 12, 2011

PoDAG XXX: IceBridgeMarilyn Kaminski

IceBridge Project Manager

October 12, 2011

2 PoDAG XXX: IceBridgeOctober 12, 2011

IceBridge Highlights FY11• Work centered on 4 focus areas:

– FastTrack ingest (for quick availability to users)– ECS ingest (for robust preservation and to enable

enhanced data services via granule-level metadata)

– Tools & services– Value-added products

• Presentations and outreach

3 PoDAG XXX: IceBridgeOctober 12, 2011

FastTrack Ingest• Published 71 product/campaign

datasets to ftp site, with as-available documentation (34 distinct datasets)

• Brokered 1 product/campaign dataset

• Created and published first 5 complete guide documents

• Developed dataset versioning and data retention policies for IceBridge data, analogous to policies for other DAAC data

• Encouraging teams to adopt common standard formats and more consistent deliveries

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Data Availability

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in work in work at NSIDC for ftp access1 file partial data received and published

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5 PoDAG XXX: IceBridgeOctober 12, 2011

ECS Ingest• First four products populated

in ECS test mode• Ongoing work to create

algorithms to determine spatial extents of data

• Process is challenging due to non-standard, changing, and inconsistent data and metadata formats

• Now negotiating agreements with providers to stabilize data deliveries and prevent ongoing code maintenance

• Starting to plan development of an ingest protocol analogous to the EOSDIS satellite providers’ SIPS protocol

6 PoDAG XXX: IceBridgeOctober 12, 2011

Tools & Services: Portal• Portal storyboards created with input from SWG• First release of portal June 13

– Map-based visualization of Greenland flight tracks; download/display of all available flight reports

• Next priority development: access to data on ftp site

• External search and aggregation services being developed by Libre team and exposed through portal

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Tools & Services• Developing more robust online

form for ingest of flight reports (for preservation) and associated metadata (to enable portal functionality)

• Tools available on web site– NSIDC- and provider-

created– Data readers and utilities

• Held interchange meeting with ASF technical staff Aug 17-18 to discuss common activities and possible joint development; collaborative work has not yet begun

8 PoDAG XXX: IceBridgeOctober 12, 2011

Value-Added Products• Prototype along-track product created and distributed to SWG Apr

14 (two flightlines from Antarctica ‘09 campaign)• Created wiki for NSIDC/IceBridge project/ Science Team/Science

Working Group to discuss and evaluate VAPs and Science Team-developed products

• Held WebEx review of along-track product Aug 30 with SWG and ST

Ice Sheet Along-Track Product • Creating 14 additional ATP flightlines for final evaluation of beta-version functions

• Plan to put ATP into production Winter ’11

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Presentations and Outreach

• Conducted Science Working Group meetings– October 13 in-person; Jun 1, Aug 30 WebEx

telecons– Next meeting (tentative) week of Jan 30

• Presentations at Science Team meetings– January 19-21 (@GSFC); June 14-16 (@UC Irvine)

• Outreach at conferences– Fall AGU (poster); Spring EGU (presentation);

brochure• Outreach to CryoSat-2 team

– CryoSat-2 Validation Workshop Feb 1-3; EGU; telecon with CryoSat-2 technical management on possible collaborations (nothing yet begun)

10 PoDAG XXX: IceBridgeOctober 12, 2011

• Data Management:– Continued FastTrack ingest of IB and pre-IB datasets, along with flight geometries

and ancillary data– Writing guide documents– Creating provider agreements to stabilize data deliveries– ECS engineering leading to operational ingest– Production-quality ingest processes

• Tools & Services:– Continuing incremental development of the IceBridge portal as guided by the

SWG. High priority tasks: access to data on ftp site (Jan 25 ‘12), visualization of Antarctic map and flightlines, access to along-track value-added products, access through ECHO to ECS-archived data

• Value-Added Products:– Production-mode generation of along-track products (Winter ‘11/’12)– Development of bedmap and other gridded products in consultation with

IceBridge Science Team and Project Office• Develop plans for implementation of “bridge” components:

– ICESat, ICESat-2, CryoSat-2

Planned Activities FY12