Tools
The following tables provide links to software for reading and viewing NASA ICESat/GLAS data.
Tool | Description |
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HDFView | Visual tool for browsing and editing HDF4 and HDF5 files. |
HDF-EOS Tools and Information Center | Provides example code for accessing and visualizing ICESat/GLAS data in MATLAB, Python, IDL, and NCL. |
Panoply netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer | Cross-platform application. Plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF, HDF and GRIB datasets. |
8-day and 91-day orbit files (ASCII) | View the geodetic latitude and longitude location of the ICESat reference orbit ground tracks. The orbit files are in ASCII format. There is a single file for each orbit for both the 8 and 91 day repeat cycles. Each repeat cycle also has a single file containing all orbits. |
Date Conversion Tool | The ICESat/GLAS Date Conversion Tool includes several options for obtaining information related to laser track start time. |
Track Conversion Tool |
The ICESat/GLAS Track Conversion Tool provides starting dates and times and related information for a Track for a specified laser period or for all laser periods. |
IceFlow | Python library simplifying the combined access of Pre-IceBridge, IceSat/GLAS, IceBridge and IceSat-2 point cloud data. The accompanying Jupyter notebook tutorial explains the usage of the library. |