Tutorial: ICESat-2 Mission Overview (Room 345)

[JessicaS11]

Lead: Tyler Sutterley
Date: 19/08/2024
Start Time: 1115
Duration: 45
Description: All about ICESat-2 and the data products

Details

Learning Outcomes

• outcome1
• outcome2
• outcome3

People Developing the Tutorial (content creation, helpers, teachers)

Summary Description

Dependencies (things people should know in advance of the tutorial)

Technical Needs (GPUs? Large file storage? Unique libraries?)

[scottyhq]

@tsutterley just checking in on this one! Happy to help draft some learning and perhaps a consolidated notebook based on past years. Or are you planning on a slide deck?

[tsutterley]

hey @scottyhq

I've gone back and forth on the best format for the mission overview. I started making a new notebook from scratch to mix it up from last year. However, I sort of decided it was too distracting as it ends up focusing more on the code than the content. So right now I am revamping and updating the slide deck. But I am still working on the notebook as it makes the figures I'm using in the slide deck, so I might include it after I add some markdown commentary.

Current Structure:

• Mission Objectives
• ATLAS and instrumentation overview
• ICESat-2 data product production
• ICESat-2 file naming convention
• ICESat-2 file structure
• ICESat-2 product overview
  • ATL03
  • ATL04 and ATL09
  • ATL08
  • ATL18
  • ATL06
  • ATL11
  • ATL14 and ATL15
  • ATL07
  • ATL10
  • ATL20
  • ATL21
  • ATL12
  • ATL19 and ATL23
• Future Mission Outlook

[JessicaS11]

Wow - both sound like they'll be incredible resources for the hackweek and the Science Team! I like how you've linked the products logically (rather than keeping them in numerical order). Feel free to add your draft at any time to the IS2 JupyterBook - I'm excited to see it!