Michael MacFerrin
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Applied Research Topic:
Using ATLAS data from ICESat-2 to validate the Elevations Reporting Tool (IVERT).
Abstract:
The NOAA Coastal DEM team uses ICESat-2 data to measure the accuracies of bare-earth seamless topographic-and-bathymetric Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). The DEMs are publicly available for any and all uses (provide or commercial) excepting navigation, and span a wide range of scientific, operational, and academic use cases. The Coastal DEM team has developed a fully-integrated “ICESat-2 Validation of Elevations Reporting Tool” (IVERT) to combine ICESat-2 with other data sources and enable rapidly-executable end-to-end accuracy assessments of DEMs anywhere in the world. Here we propose to work with the NASA ICESat-2 Science Team to better optimize our use of ICESat-2 data in IVERT, to guide and facilitate its migration to a cloud-computing environment, and (with possible future support from NOAA) to provide IVERT as a service to the wider scientific community.
Co-Investigator(s):
- Kelly Carignan, Co-I. Manager of the Coastal-DEM team. DEM Developer.
- Christopher Amante, Co-I. Co-lead, Coastal-DEM team. DEM Developer.
- Matthew Love, Co-I. Coastal-DEM team, IVERT developer. DEM Developer.
- Elliot Lim, Co-I. Coastal DEM team, DEM Developer.
End Users:
The Coastal DEM team develops and validates seamless topographic and bathymetric DEM’s for a variety of end-users, both inside and external to NOAA. End-users include (but are not limited to): NOAA National Weather Service Tsunami Program (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory), the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP), and the USGS Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED), as well as a variety of state- and city-level infrastructure and planning agencies.