C44A
Laser Altimetry over Polar Snow and Ice II

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
3007 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
16:00
ICESat-2: An overview of science objectives, development status, expected performance, and data products (Invited) (63593)
Thorsten Markus1, Tom Neumann2, Martino Anthony1 and ICESat-2 Science Definition Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States
16:15
NASA SIMPL and AVIRIS-NG Coordinated Campaign in Support of ICESat-2; July-August, 2015, Thule, Greenland (78983)
Kelly M Brunt1,2, Tom Neumann1, David J Harding1, Robert O Green3 and Thorsten Markus1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
16:30
Retrieval of Sea Ice Freeboard from ICESat-2 Multi-beam Altimetry (70610)
Ronald Kwok1, Janosch Fabian Hoffmann2 and Thorsten Markus2, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
16:45
Measuring Ice Sheet Height with ICESat-2 (75727)
Kaitlin Walsh1, Ben Smith2, Tom Neumann3 and David Hancock1, (1)Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States
17:00
Land and Vegetation Data Products for the ICESat-2 Mission (80112)
Amy L Neuenschwander, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
17:15
The ICESat-2 Inland Water Height Data Product: Evaluation of Water Profiles Using High Altitude Photon Counting Lidar (84287)
Michael F Jasinski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
17:30
Impact of Cloud and Blowing Snow on Ice Sheet Altimetry: a Comparison between ICESat and ICESat-2 (70429)
Yuekui Yang, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, Alexander Marshak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Stephen P Palm, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lanham, MD, United States and Tamas Varnai, University of Maryland Baltimore County, JCET, Baltimore, MD, United States
17:45
Facilitating comparisons between ICESat waveforms and ICESat-2 point data (85765)
Shane Grigsby, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Sean Freeman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Waleed Abdalati, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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