Spaceborne Observations of the Polar Regions during IPY • The IPY provides an international framework for understanding high-latitude climate change and predicting world wide impacts. • Spaceborne technology offers unique capabilities for obtaining essential data for predictive models. • IPY era spaceborne instrumentation represents a technological leap beyond the capabilities of the IGY
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Spaceborne Observations of the Polar Regions during IPY
• The IPY provides an international framework for
understanding high-latitude climate change and predicting world wide impacts.
• Spaceborne technology offers unique capabilities for obtaining essential data for predictive models.
• IPY era spaceborne instrumentation represents a technological leap beyond the capabilities of the IGY
Global Inter-agency IPY Polar Snapshot Year
(GIIPSY) GIIPSY aims to facilitate:
• Use of current and soon to be launched earth observing satellites to develop broad spectral, medium and high resolution snapshots of the polar regions.
• Use of the snapshots as gauges for assessing the impacts
of past and future high latitude environmental changes.
• Establishment of technical and programmatic infrastructure for sustaining international observations beyond IPY.
GIIPSYScience Goals
• Understand the polar ice sheets sufficiently to predict their contribution to global sea level rise• Understand sea ice sufficiently to predict its response to and influence on global climate change and biological processes Measure how much water is stored as seasonal snow and its variability. Understand glaciers and ice caps in the context of hydrologic and biologic systems and their contributions to global sea level rise. Understand the interactions between the changing polar atmosphere and the changes in sea ice, glacial ice, snow extent, and surface melting. Understand the spatial distribution of permafrost, its interactions with other systems or processes, and predict its response to climate change. Improve understanding, observing and modeling capabilities of lake and river ice and its influence on energy, water and biochemical cycling, and aquatic ecosystems.
Aircraft and in-situSounders and GPR
SystemsDMSP
IceSat
ADM-Aeolus
Accomplishing the IPY SnapshotMETOP
GOCE
GRACE
SPOT-4
HRVIR / VGT
SMOS
f
PALSAR PRISM / AVNIR-2
Aqua & Terra
H
ERS-2
ALOS
RADARSAT
Envisat
ASAR MERIS / A-ATSR
MODIS / ASTERAMSR-E ASCAT AVHRRSSMI
NPOESS C1
Cryosphere Satellite Missions
Planned/Pending approvalIn orbit Approved
IPY
ASAR/Envisat C-band
VIIRS/NPPMODIS/EOS-Terra
PALSAR/ALOS L-band
RADARSAT-3
COSMO-SKYMED X-band
HY-1
TERRASAR-X X-band
MODIS & AMSR-E/EOS-Aqua
ICESAT
SMOSWindSat
GMES S-3
GMES S-1SAR/ERS
AMSR/GCOM-W
RADARSAT-2 C-bandRADARSAT-1 C-band
ICESAT-2
Seawinds/QuikSCAT
OLS & SSMI/DMSP—AVHRR & AMSU/NOAA
CRYOSAT-2
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01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
Ku-Scat/OCEANSAT-2
GRACE
GOCE
Wind Scat/ERS
RISAT/ C-band
IPY science goals can be realized through collaboration on the end-to-end system of:• Sensors and Spacecraft• Acquisition Planning• Receiving Ground Stations• Processing Facilities• Calibration and Validation• Historical data sets
The End
to End System
Additionally, plans should include suborbital campaigns where there may be a need to tie interrupted spaceborne observations (e.g. ERS-2 to IceSAT to Envisat RA2) that bracket the IPY period.
The IPY is a scientific endeavour. Yet it is likely that the IPY investigations will also identify new technical requirements and approaches. A recommendation to the flight agencies is to seed the most promising ideas so as to prepare for next generation observations.
GIIPSY Strategy
• Specify data requirements (IGOS, IPY-SCOBS)• Identify requirements satisfied through the routine
operations (eg MODIS, MERIS) • For routine observations, work with flight agencies
to assure that data are available/archived in standardized fashion
• Identify requirements that can only be satisfied by non-routine tasking, processing and distribution (eg SAR, InSAR, high resolution optical).
• Work with the flight agencies to acquire non-routine data so as to distribute the operational load.
• Following selection of projects through the national A.O.’s, identify whether any legacy data sets are absent from the acquisition plans.
GIIPSY Vision• Accomplishments will depend on funded
projects. Example objectives include:
– Pole to coast measurement of Antarctic Ice Sheet surface velocity field;
– Annual, basin-scale measurements of Arctic sea ice motion;
– Circumpolar measurements of Antarctic sea ice motion;
– High spatial resolution measurements of polar glacier elevation;
– Pan-Arctic view of lake and river ice break-up dynamics;
– Infrastructure and programs for continuing observations in to the future.
GIIPSY Plans and Accomplishments
• ESA IPY Data A.O.
• CSA RADARSAT-1 archive access
• U.S. NASA and NSF funds for ALOS processing
• GIIPSY Data Requirements Document
• GIIPSY meeting planned for Fall AGU
• WMO sponsored meeting of international flight agencies in ‘07
GIIPSY Information
• www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/rsl/GIIPSY
• GIIPSY Team Meeting Tuesday December 12 6:00PM-8:30PMAGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco Marriott Convention Center, Room Sierra KContact: K. Farness ([email protected])
GIIPSY ParticipantsRobin Bell Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Ian Allison Australian Antarctic Division
Barry Goodison Environment Canada
Roger Barry National Snow and Ice Data Centre
Chris Rapley British Antarctic Survey
Irena Hajnsek DLR
Prasad Gogineni University of Kansas
Fumihiko Nishio Chiba University
Vicky Lytle Director CliC IPO
Jeff Key University of Wisconsin
Wen Jiahong Shanghai Normal University
John Cooper NASA GSFC
Katy Farness The Ohio State University
Costas Armenakis NRCan
Flavio Parmiggiani ISAC CNR
John Crawford Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Helen Fricker Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Mark Parsons National Snow and Ice Data Centre
Vijay K. Agarwal Space Applications Centre (ISRO)
Paul Briand Canadian Space Agency
Dean Flett Canadian Ice Service
Rick Forster University of Utah
Ben Holt Jet Propulsion Laboratory
John Curlander Vexcel Corporation
Harry Stern University of Washington
Nettie LaBelle-Hamer Alaska Satellite Facility
Robert Bindschadler Goddard Space Flight Center
Bernard Minster Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Hong Xing Liu Texas A&M University
Waleed Abdalati NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jonathan Bamber University of Bristol
Jay Zwally NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jack Kohler Norsk Polar Institute
Preben Gudmandsen Technical University of Denmark
Duncan Wingham University College London
Jason Box The Ohio State University
Don Perovich USA CRREL
Hong Gyoo Sohn Yonsei University
Ted Scambos National Snow and Ice Data Centre
GIIPSY ParticipantsSatyendra_Bhandari Space Applications Centre (ISRO)
Chris Elfering National Academies
Sheldon Drobot University of Colorado
E Dongchen Wuhan University
Chunxia Zhou Wuhan University
David Long Brigham Young University
Stein Sandven Nansen Centre (NERSC)
Charles Randell PolarView Consortium (C-CORE)
Pablo Clemente-Colon National Ice Centre
Joerg Haarpaintner NORUT
Dirk Geudtner Canadian Space Agency
Mike Demuth Natural Resources Canada
Ola Grabak European Space Agency-ESRIN
Jeff Kargel US Geological Survey
Andrew Flemming British Antarctic Survey
Guoping Li China National Space Administration
Surendra Parashar Canadian Space Agency
Rune Solberg Norwegian Computing Center
Dave Barber U. Manitoba
Rene Forsberg Danish National Space Centre
Jeanne Sauber GSFC
Helmut Rott University of Innsbruck
Ron Kwok JPL
Andrew Flemming BAS
Anne Walker Met. Canada
Dorothy Hall GSFC
Niels Reeh Danish Tech. Univ.
Mark Drinkwater ESA ESTEC (GIIPSY co-lead)
Kenneth Jezek Ohio State University (GIIPSY co-lead)
Ian Joughin Univ. Washington
Leif Toudal Pedersen Danish Technical University
Robert Thomas E.G.&G
Jinro Ukita Chiba University, Japan
Frank Paul University of Zurich
Soren Andersen Danish Meteorological Institute
Valery Vuglinsky St. Petersburg State University
Jerry Brown International Permafrost Association
Claude Duguay University of Waterloo, Canada
Victor Zlotnicki JPL
Roger DeAbreu Canadian Ice Service
Suggested List of Agency Representatives
• NASA• Craig Dobson• Seelye Martin, Waleed Abdalati, Jack Kaye, Jay Zwally
• ESA• Mark Drinkwater• Yves-Louis Desnos• Henri Laur – Envisat Mission Manager• Bianca Hoersch – Third Party Mission Manager• Wolfgang Lengert – ERS-2 Mission Manager
• China National Space Administration• LI Guoping • Department of General Planning• China National Space Administration
• CSA• Guy Seguin • Surendra Parashar • Paul Briand • Dirk Geudtner
• JAXA• Masanobu Shimada (EORC)
• • DLR• A. Moreira • M. Werner T-X Mission Mgr • Irena Hajnsek – Mission Scientist
ISRODr. Vijay K. Agarwal Group Director, Meteorology & Oceanography Group& Project Director, SATCORE-IISpace Applications Centre (ISRO), Bopal CampusAhmedabad 380 015 INDIA
Dr. Satyendra BhandariSenior Scientist, Remote Sensing 6046, Space Applications Centre (ISRO), Bopal Campus-ISRO Ahmedabad - 380 015 INDIA
Russian Space Agency
Korean Space Agency
EumetsatLars PrahmErnst Koenemann
NOAAPablo Clemente Colon Bill Pichel WMOEduard Sarukhanian Tillman Mohr
Operational User RepresentationNational Ice Center – Pablo Clemente-Colon
Canadian Ice Centre – Mike Manore & Dean FlettESA GMES PolarView Consortium – Charles Randell
Data Centre RepresentationAlaska SAR Facility (and US ALOS Node) – Nettie Labelle-Hamer Roger Barry & Mark Parsons NSIDC