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glacierhack2017

Code and notes for the 2017 UW eScience geohackweek GlacierHack project

Objectives

  • To learn new skills to work with large raster datasets, specifically high-resolution DEMs
  • Learn how to calcluate elevation change, volume change, and geodetic mass balance from DEM time series
  • Explore options to integrate DEM time series into Google Earth Engine
  • Explore options to implement various processing steps in Google Earth Engine or other cloud-based processing platform

Background material

Packages

  • GDAL
  • NumPy
  • pygeotools
  • demcoreg
  • vmap
  • Ames Stereo Pipeline (download precompiled binaries here and add bin directory to your PATH)

Sub-projects

Geodetic mass balance

Lead(s): @mattols, @spectorp

Sources of input data:

  • High-resolution DEMs derived from stereo imagery
  • SRTM 1-arcsec data (30-m)

Feature-tracking and velocity map time series

Lead(s): @willkochtitzky @prajjwalpanday

We will explore vmap tools (wrappers around the Ames Stereo Pipeline correlator) to generate time series of velocity maps.

Sources of input data for velocity maps include:

  • High-resolution image data from DigitalGlobe, Planet, LS8, Sentinel, etc.
  • High-resolution shaded relief maps derived from 2-m Stereo DEMs (see

Debris thickness modeling

Lead(s): @drounce

Attempt to estimate debris thickness using LS thermal IR imagery, output from an energy balance model, and observed elevation change data

Lagrangian elevation change for mountain glaciers

Lead(s): @dshean

Integrate elevation change and velocity measurements to extract Lagrangian Dh/Dt and local debris thickness change maps for comparison with debris thickness models.

Candidate sites

Let's identify one or more sites with a good, dense time series of DEM/image data. See count maps and indices.

High-mountain Asia

HMA mosaic Index of available DEMs: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5c3UTO8DDZwNkktcGtBSXJvQjQ

Pacific NW (Mt. Rainier, Mt. Baker, Mt Olympus, etc.)

PNW mosaic Index of available DEMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5c3UTO8DDZwNDFvWkQ0bFdsa0U

Other candidates

  • Alaska (using ArcticDEM products)
  • Oso landslide, WA
  • Greenland outlet glaciers
  • SnowEx'17 sites: Grand Mesa and Senator Beck Basin, CO

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