ICESat-2 data products
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ICESat-2 data products¶
This tutorial is meant to show some examples of the standard land-ice data products put out by the ICESat-2 project. It is not a comprehensive look at all the products, nor does it document all the features available in the product is shows. Rather, it presents some tools for looking at the data, and shows how the information flows between land-ice products.
Learning goals¶
Demonstrate basic HDF-5 product structures of ICESat-2 standard data products
Demonstrate the flow of information from the lowest-level products to the highest-level products (or vice versa)
Data search using geographic regions and file names using icePyx
File-level data access from NSIDC
Photon data access using SlideRule
# import packages:
import numpy as np # Numeric Python
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Plotting routines
import h5py # general HDF5 reading/writing library
import rioxarray as rx # Package to read raster data from hdf5 files
from pyproj import Transformer, CRS # libraries to allow coordinate transforms
import glob # Package to locate files on disk
import os # File-level utilities
import re # regular expressions for string interpretation
import icepyx as ipx # Package to interact with ICESat-2 online resources
from sliderule import icesat2 # Package for online ICESat-2 processing