HR: 1340h
AN: C33B-0354    [Abstracts]
TI: Tools at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for Working With Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) Data Products From Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)
AU: * Maurer, J
EM: maurerj@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, UCB 449, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AU: Marquis, M
EM: marquism@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, UCB 449, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AU: Savoie, M H
EM: savoie@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, UCB 449, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AB: The Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) is the sole instrument on the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), launched in January 2003. The main objective of the ICESat mission is to measure ice sheet elevations and changes in elevation through time. Secondary objectives include measurement of cloud and aerosol height profiles, land elevation and vegetation cover, and sea ice thickness. This poster provides an overview of the tools available from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for working with ICESat/GLAS data. It includes descriptions of an IDL visualization tool, an altimetry extractor tool, IDL readers, Fortran 90 code, IDL ellipsoid converter, and subsetting capabilities. For more information about GLAS data products available from NSIDC, see: http://nsidc.org/data/icesat.
UR: http://nsidc.org/data/icesat
DE: 1827 Glaciology (1863)
DE: 1836 Hydrologic budget (1655)
DE: 1863 Snow and ice (1827)
DE: 1640 Remote sensing
DE: 0305 Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801)
SC: Cryosphere [C]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting