C020
ICESat-2 on-orbit performance, data discoveries and early science

Session ID#: 80636

Session Description:
NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2) launched on September 2018 is continuing the tradition established by ICESat (2003-2009) of providing multi-year, global elevation measurements to support diverse scientific applications and investigations. Early on-orbit discoveries support advancement in cryospheric discovery, terrestrial ecology, hydrology and oceanography. These science studies leverage the high spatial and temporal resolution of the unique ICESat-2 laser altimeter, ATLAS (Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System), a state-of-the-art photon sensitive sensor.

This poster-only session will provide a forum for the current scientific and technological achievements associated with on-board algorithm development, instrumentation performance, and data product analysis over the broad range of surface measurements; from sea ice to inland water. Submissions associated with the satellite data usage in support of terrestrial, hydrologic, atmospheric and oceanographic applications are encouraged as are those associated with on-orbit calibration/validation techniques and data distribution.

Index Terms:

0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]

Primary Convener:  Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Convener:  Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Ocean Subsurface study from ICESat-2 mission (487767)
Xiaomei Lu1,2, Yongxiang Hu2, Yuekui Yang3, Ali H Omar4 and Charles R Trepte2, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States
 
ICESat-2 and the DDA-ice: Ice surfaces and surface processes from submeter scale to ice-sheet wide scale (493533)
Matthew William Lawson, University of Colorado Boulder, Computer Science, Boulder, CO, United States, Ute C Herzfeld, Univ Colorado Boulder, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Thomas Trantow, University of Colorado at Boulder, ECEE, Boulder, CO, United States, Adam Hayes, University of Colorado Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, CO, United States, Yuekui Yang, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Stephen P Palm, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lanham, MD, United States
 
Cloud and Surface Properties as Observed by ICESat-2: a comparison with CALIPSO (496660)
Yuekui Yang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Stephen P Palm, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lanham, MD, United States and Ute C Herzfeld, Univ Colorado Boulder, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
 
ICESat-2 Precision Orbit Determination Performance (501951)
Taylor Thomas, Emergent Space Technologies, Inc., Laurel, MD, United States, Scott B Luthcke, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Joseph B Nicholas, Emergent Space Technologies, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David D Rowlands, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Timothy William Rebold, Emergent Space Technologies, Sterling, VA, United States and Teresa Pennington, KBRWyle, Denver, NC, United States
 
Classification of Burnt Forests Based on ICESat-2 Photon Counting Data (502244)
Meng Liu, Texas A&M University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, United States, Sorin C Popescu, Texas A&M University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States and Malambo Lonesome, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
ICESat-2 on-orbit performance, data discoveries and early science (507667)
Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Kelly M Brunt, Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Alex S Gardner, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Beata M Csatho, University at Buffalo, Department of Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States and Anton F Schenk, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
 
ICESat-2 Surface Sampling Performance: Orbit Design and Calibration and Validation of Reference Ground-Track Pointing Control (508397)
Timothy William Rebold, Emergent Space Technologies, Sterling, VA, United States, Scott B Luthcke, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Taylor Thomas, Emergent Space Technologies, Inc., Laurel, MD, United States and Joseph B Nicholas, Emergent Space Technologies, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Introducing icesat2py, an Open Source Python Library for Obtaining and Working with ICESat-2 Data (508698)
Jessica Scheick, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, Anthony A Arendt, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Fernando Perez, University of California Berkeley, Statistics, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Performance of the ICESat-2 Precision Pointing Determination (510025)
Sungkoo Bae, Michael James, Benjamin Helgeson and Jonathan Sipps, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Ocean Wave and Wind Characteristics Determined by the ICESat-2 Land Surface Algorithm (516540)
Bradley Klotz, Amy L Neuenschwander and Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Estimation of Forest Aboveground Biomass from ICESat-2 and Landsat (516901)
Lana Narine, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Sorin C Popescu, Texas A&M University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States and Malambo Lonesome, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
An Overview of ICESat-2 Data and Reference Products for General Data Users (519341)
Kaitlin Harbeck1, Tom Neumann2, Lori A Magruder3, David Hancock1, Jeffrey Lee1, John W Robbins4, Scott B Luthcke5, Aimée Gibbons1, Kelly M Brunt6 and Anita C Brenner7, (1)KBR, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 615 - Cryospheric Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States
 
On-orbit performance analyses of the ATL03 geolocated photon cloud product from ICESat-2 (519593)
Aimée Gibbons1, Tom Neumann2, Anthony J Martino3, Jeffrey Lee1, David Hancock1, Kaitlin Harbeck1 and Anita C Brenner4, (1)KBR, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States
 
Investigation of ICESat-2 and Landsat/Sentinel-2 Imagery Fusion for Retrieval of Nearshore Bathymetry (520714)
Andrea Albright and Craig L Glennie, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
 
An Overview of ICESat-2 ATLAS Science Algorithm Software (ASAS) (521258)
Jeffrey Lee1, David Hancock1, Kristine A Barbieri2, Benjamin P Jelley3, Matthew C Johnson3, Jyothi Nattala4, Thomas E Northam5, LeeAnne Roberts3, Paul E Sweatman6 and Jesse T Wimert3, (1)KBR, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, (3)KBR, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA, United States, (6)INNOVIM, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Validating the ICESat-2 Land Water Vegetation Elevation Product (ATL08) with Airborne Lidar Data (524072)
Malambo Lonesome, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Sorin C Popescu, Texas A&M University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States
 
Snow depth on Arctic sea ice from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 (539888)
Ronald Kwok, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sahra Kacimi, NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, Melinda Webster, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Nathan T Kurtz, NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Open Ocean Observation of Sea Surface Height with ICESat-2 (546734)
James Morison, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, Suzanne Dickinson, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, David Hancock, KBR, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, LeeAnne Roberts, KBR, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and John W Robbins, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 615 - Cryospheric Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
ICESat-2 Measurements of Polar Clouds and Blowing Snow (553218)
Stephen P Palm, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lanham, MD, United States, Yuekui Yang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Ute C Herzfeld, Univ Colorado Boulder, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Shallow-Water Bathymetry using ICESat-2 ATLAS and Related LIDAR Technologies (557632)
Benjamin John Alexander Wise1, Jeffrey P Thayer2,3, Rory Alistair Barton-Grimley4, Andrew Gisler2 and Charles Anderson2, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)ASTRALiTe Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
ICESat-2/ATLAS at One Year: Observed and Predicted Instrument Performance (583567)
Anthony J Martino1, Megan R Bock1, John Cavanaugh1, Timothy D Cole1, Christopher T. Field2, James E Golder2 and Catherine Gosmeyer1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sigma Space Corp, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
ICESat-2 Constraint Analysis and Monitoring System (CAMS) Operational Performance (586851)
Teresa Pennington1, Scott B Luthcke2, Timothy William Rebold3, Jennifer L Beall4, Taylor Thomas5, Terence J Sabaka2 and Aseel Syed6, (1)KBRWyle, Denver, NC, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Emergent Space Technologies, Sterling, VA, United States, (4)Emergent Space Technologies, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Emergent Space Technologies, Inc., Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Emergent Space Technologies, Greenbelt, United States
 
ICESat-2 Mission Overview: Measuring the Height of the Earth With A Photon-Counting Laser Altimeter (604723)
Nathan T Kurtz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Measurements of floe size from ICESat-2 laser altimetry (611307)
Thomas W. K. Armitage1, Ron Kwok1 and Glen F Cunningham2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
ICESat-2 Altimetry as Geodetic Control (616372)
Claudia Cristina Carabajal, Hexagon US Federal @ NASA/GSFC, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory - Code 61A, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jean-Paul Boy, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, EOST, IPGS UMR 7516, Strasbourg, France
 
Assessment of Ocean Tide Modeling Based On ICESat-2 Data (616931)
John W Robbins, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 615 - Cryospheric Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Richard Ray, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, code 61A, Greenbelt, United States, Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States and James Morison, Polar Science Ctr, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Ross Sea ice production based on Sentinel-1 and ICESat-2 (618093)
Hongjie Xie1, Liyun Dai2, YoungHyun Koo3, Stephen F Ackley4 and Alberto M Mestas-Nunez1, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (3)University of Texas at San Antonio, Geological Sciences, San Antonio, United States, (4)UTSA, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Inland Water Observations with ICESat-2 (625931)
Michael F Jasinski1, Jeremy Stoll2, David Hancock3, John W Robbins4, Jyothi Nattala2, Tamlin Pavelsky5, Benjamin M Jones6, Bernhard Lehner7, Tom Neumann8 and Kaitlin Harbeck3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)KBR, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 615 - Cryospheric Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (6)University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Water and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)McGill University, Department of Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States
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