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January, 2020

Upcoming 2020 ICESat-2 Hack Week: June 15-19

NSIDC is excited to bring your attention to the Cryospheric Sciences with ICESat-2 Hack Week, June 15-19, 2020, on the University of Washington campus. Visit the website https://icesat-2hackweek.github.io/ for details on how to apply. From the ICESat-2 Hack Week Organizers: Join us for five days of tutorials, data exploration, software development and community networking focused on open… Read more »

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ICESat-2 Data Now Available at NSIDC DAAC

The first data sets from NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) are now available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). These data sets provide backscatter profiles; geolocated photon data; atmospheric layer characteristics; and geolocated surface elevations for land ice, sea ice, vegetation and land, and… Read more »

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Programmatic access to NSIDC DAAC data now available using spatial and temporal filters

Interested in programmatic, scriptable access to data filtered by time or region of interest?   While spatial and temporal data filtering and ordering can be done through applications such as NASA Earthdata Search, you may want to access data in a more programmatic way outside of a web interface. Our Application Programming Interface, or API, enables you to enter spatial and temporal… Read more »