What subsetting and reformatting services are available for ICESat-2 data?
The following table describes the subsetting and reformatting services that are currently available for ICESat-2 data.
Note that ICESat-2 data sets are now available in NASA’s Earthdata Cloud environment. While data will remain accessible from the NSIDC DAAC's local servers for now, the NASA Earthdata Cloud will soon become the permanent and sole archive.
NASA Earthdata Cloud archive Harmony services
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NSIDC legacy archive services
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Last Updated March 2025