FAIRsharing record for: OpenAltimetry

This FAIRsharing record describes: OpenAltimetry is a cyberinfrastructure platform for discovery, access, and visualization of data from NASA?s ICESat and ICESat-2 missions. These laser profiling altimeters are being used to measure changes in the topography of Earth?s ice sheets, vegetation canopy structure, and clouds and aerosols. A new paradigm for data access was required to serve the needs of a diverse scientific community seeking to take advantage of these unique observations. OpenAltimetry, which is the product of a collaboration between UNAVCO, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, was custom-built to meet these needs.