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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">to adjust some characteristics of GLIMS+ images should read<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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attached file of "GLIMS+ STARs (ASTER Science Team <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Requests)" was produced through the efforts of quite <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">a few
members of the GLIMS consortium. RC Chiefs and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">stewards
contributed the requests based on gaps in existing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">ASTER
coverage or special needs for enhanced coverage of high-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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areas; I compiled the requests and revised some of them <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">in
consultation with the requesters; Greg Leonard spot-checked <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">the
requests for accuracy and produced a text file, with unform <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">format
(in a few cases combining small-area requests into larger <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">polygons),
which Bruce Raup then used to calculate the gain <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">setting
requests. Please be reminded that in addition to this <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">supplemental
request, the regular GLIMS STARs (which was <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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completely and functioned in 2008 and was updated to <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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some problems in 2009) are in effect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">We are
trying something new with this set of supplementary <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">"GLIMS+"
STARs. The change should result in nonpolar glacier <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">images
that have much-reduced saturation on snow-covered <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">equator-facing
slopes.<span DEFANGED_STYLE="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The gain settings have
been computed <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">with a
modified algorithm that includes a “slopeshift” term. As <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">many
people have noted, even GLIMS-mode images (which are <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">designed
not to saturate for horizontal snow-covered surfaces) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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include significant saturation if slopes angle toward <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">the sun
by more than a few degrees. So the added "slopeshift" <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">will
reduce image saturation at the slight expense of giving lower <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">signal:noise
in the darkest areas (rock, water, and shadow <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">areas).
Please note that for many non-GLIMS images (e.g., <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">Global
Map images), gains are set for rock targets, and we have <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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control over that (such that snow and ice areas are usually <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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no matter what the slope). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">We are
incorporating default values of the slopeshift of -15 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">degrees,
which means that equatorward slopes of at least 15 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">degrees
will remain unsaturated.<span DEFANGED_STYLE="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In
practice, for the majority of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
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only equator-facing slopes steeper than 20 or 25 degrees <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">(and
even greater at low latitudes) will be saturated; this <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">compares
to standard GLIMS-mode images which saturate with <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">fresh
powdered snow surfaces if they slope sunward more than a <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">typical
6 degrees or so, which can be 30% of the accumulation <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">zone in
rough terrain.<span DEFANGED_STYLE="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For DEM
production and studies of the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">accumulation
zone, the -15-degree slopeshift value will greatly <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">improve
image quality. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">The
exceptions are in Greenland, the Canadian Arctic islands, and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">Antarctic
Peninsula, where most of the glacier area is low-sloping <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">large
outlet glaciers, ice shelves, or otherwise have small areas <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">that
slope more than a few degrees. In these areas the default <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">slopeshift
value is 0 degrees, meaning that the gains are <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">calculated
just as they have been for the normal GLIMS STARs <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">(based
on the central latitude of a polygon and the middle date <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">of the
imaging season).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">The
requesters of the individual GLIMS+ STARs may email Greg <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#444444">Leonard
(</span><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">gleonard@email.arizona.edu) with any adjustments you want
to <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#444444">the
slopeshift values for your GLIMS+ requests. For example, if you have <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#444444">been</span><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;
color:#444444"> </span><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#444444">happy with GLIMS gain settings and
don't care about some <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#444444">saturation
in the snowy areas (for instance, if you're studying mainly </span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;
color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">debris-covered areas and glacier lakes), then maybe you
would prefer a </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">0 slopeshift value. In exceptional case involving the most
extreme rugged </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">and snowy topography, you may wish larger slopeshift values than
15 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">degrees.<span DEFANGED_STYLE="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In Greenland, if
occasional slight image saturation has been a </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">problem, we can incorporate a
small slopeshift of -5 or -10 degrees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">After one season of Northern Hemisphere imaging (by
northern fall), we </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">will review our results and see whether regular GLIMS
imaging should be </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">modified to include finite slope-shifts such as these, or
whether we want </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">to retain standard GLIMS-mode gains (with no slopeshift).<span DEFANGED_STYLE="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This can be </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">done on a region-by-region
basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:#444444">Jeff Kargel</span></p>
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