Kevin McCurdy, Mike Chou, Kelvin Lo
"(to) analyze and visualize NASA’s Arctic and/or Antarctic ice sheets and sea ice data to tell their story over time and over the three spatial dimensions."
- Climate change analytics & forecasting
- Arctic shipping route predictions
- Lots of raw satellite data to sift through
- Different satellites/operations provide different data types (temp, ice thickness, snow density, laser scanned topography, etc.)
- Various file formats (.nc, .txt, .h5, etc.) over roughly the same area (but not exact bounding rectangle)
- Data is only past history; what’s probably going to happen to local iceforms?
- Satellite data not always available (data downlink/revisit rate)
- Ice can form very quickly
- Ships don’t want to sink but it’s a faster route vs Panama Canal/going around South America
