The Applications Team held an applications workshop for June 3rd & 4th, 2024 at Goddard Space Flight Center (Building 34, Room W150) to bring together all end-users including ICESat-2 applications developers, satellite operators, and decision makers to discuss the current state and future needs of the community. Through this gathering we hoped to foster synergies and collaborations between current and new applied users as well as data users. The workshop provided an opportunity for the community to share their research, applications and data fusion activities to support decision making and policy support across a wide range of activities.

Objectives

Overall, the objectives of the Applications Workshop were to:

• Provide an overview of the status of the mission and current data products and support services from the NSIDC.
• Build partnerships between current and new applied users as well as data producers and end users.
• Foster synergies with between all participants, including Science Team Members, decision makers and satellite operators.
• Identify new potential applications or products from ATLAS data not currently under investigation.
• Review available tools for extracting ATLAS data for a diverse community.
• Understand the challenges faced by applied users (e.g., data accessibility, formatting), data users, end users and identify solutions.

Workshop Deliverables and Desired Outcomes

• A workshop summary that will be published in NASA’s Earth Observer.
• New collaborations between participants
• An understanding of available tools for accessing ATLAS data
• New partnerships with end users

The agenda for the workshop is below and includes links to the slide decks (where available). 

Workshop report can be downloaded here: Applications_workshop_report_Internal_June2024_V2.docx. 

The contact list for the workshop participants can be downloaded here: ICESat-2_Contacts_for_distribution.xlsx