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Tutorial

SWOT HR coverage

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Affiliations
Colorado School of Mines
University of Maryland
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Colorado School of Mines

Overview

In this tutorial, we will plot NASA/CNES’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) High Rate (HR) and Low Rate (LR) coverage over Antarctica, then compare SWOT HR raster elevations to NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) ATL06 land ice elevations over the Bach Ice Shelf (Antarctic Peninsula), verifying correct application of geophysical corrections.

Visualize SWOT coverage over Antarctica

Building on the previous SWOT HR data access tutorial where we learned how to find and open SWOT data, we’ll now focus on determining what SWOT HR and LR coverage exists over Antarctica for our comparison to ICESat-2. In this step, you’ll create an interactive map of SWOT coverage over Antarctica.

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References
  1. Depoorter, M. A., Bamber, J. L., Griggs, J., Lenaerts, J. T. M., Ligtenberg, S. R. M., van den Broeke, M. R., & Moholdt, G. (2013). Antarctic masks (ice-shelves, ice-sheet, and islands), link to shape file. PANGAEA. 10.1594/PANGAEA.819147