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Image panel : Left image shows ATLAS/ICESat-2 ATL08 canopy heights generated using the SlideRule Earth web interface. The image on the right shows 2020 30-meter gridded canopy height map across the contiguous US based upon ICESat-2 canopy heights and ancillary Landsat, LANDFIRE and topographic variables.

The image pair shows ICESat-2 canopy heights generated using the SlideRule Earth interface on the left,  and a 30-meter gridded canopy height map across the contiguous U.S. based on ICESat-2 canopy heights and ancillary Landsat, LANDFIRE, and topographic variables on the right. Credit: SlideRuleEarth, Sorin Popescu and Lonesome Malambo

NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) was launched in September 2018 to measure the heights of all surfaces across the globe, including land ice, sea ice, oceans, water, and vegetation. ICESat-2 carries a photon-counting laser altimeter to measure these surfaces, providing measurements every 70 centimeters along the platform’s ground path at a rate of 10,000 laser pulses per second. NASA’s National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) distributes ICESat-2 data products in the NASA Earthdata Cloud, along with an abundance of learning resources for users to visualize, access, and customize each data product. 

In this webinar, speakers from the NASA ICESat-2 Science and Application teams and Goddard Space Flight Center will introduce the ICESat-2 Land and Vegetation Height data product and provide an overview of a derived continental scale canopy model. In addition, the webinar will showcase the SlideRule Earth web service, demonstrating high-performance, on-demand science data processing of ICESat-2 and other relevant geospatial data.

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Sliderule Earth Applications.pdf This presentation provides an overview of the SlideRule Earth web service which provides on-demand science data processing of ICESat-2 and other geospatial data. Several NASA ICESat-2 data use cases are presented.
NASA ICESat-2 Data Training: Land and Vegetation Height Products This presentation provides an overview of the NASA ICESat-2 mission and its measurements and an in depth introduction to the mission's land and vegetation height data products.
Introduction: Second ICESat-2 Data Training This presentation provides an introduction both to the NASA ICESat-2 data training series and to the second data training focused on working with NASA ICESat-2 land and vegetation height data.
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Jennifer Brennan, NASA ESDIS User and Mission Support Office

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