International Polar Year 2007-2009
Table of contents
International Polar Year – GIIPSY Documents, Publications, and Mission Plans
Documents
GIIPSY Proposal to ICSU/WMO Joint Committee on IPY
GIIPSY Endorsement Letter
Letter announcing ESA IPY AO
GIIPSY vu-graph package
Data Strategy 3.0 NEW!
GIIPSY Close Out Package (pptx, pdf, ppt)
Science Data Requirements and Mission Planning
The following files summarize a community assessment of GIIPSY satellite data requirements. Detailed requirements and justifications are discussed in the GIIPSY Science Requirements Document. A consolidated and numbered set of science themes are listed in GIIPSY Thematic Objectives. These were presented and tentatively adopted by the Space Task Group. A spread sheet linking GIIPSY thematic objectives by number to specific observational requirements is included as the GIIPSY Check List. The GIIPSY Check List also refers to image and digital maps listed below.
GIIPSY Science Requirements Document
GIIPSY Thematic Objectives
GIIPSY Check List
Image Maps of Coverage
Antarctica and Greenland Ice Sheets
IPY Imagery | Antarctica and Greenland Ice Sheets |
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Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice
IPY Imagery | Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice |
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Glaciers
IPY Imagery | Glaciers and Permafrost |
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Lake and River Ice
Lake and River Locations
Lake and River Ice Description File (text file)
Digital Maps
Antarctica
1997 RAMP Coastline—Antarctica (SPA Format)
1997 RAMP Coastline—Arc Export
Greenland
Greenland Coastline—Arc Export
Glaciers
Arctic Canada Ice Caps (Shape file)
Sea Ice
Arctic Summer Sea Ice Extent (raster data)
Arctic Winter Sea Ice Extent
Antarctic Summer Sea Ice Extent
Antarctic Winter Sea Ice Extent
Sea ice data format (text file)
Permafrost
Permafrost extent (shape file)
Publications
EOS December 12, 2006
ASF Newsletter
EGU ‘07 Poster
Space Research Today
WMO State and fate of the polar cryosphere
Earthzine Article
Space Technology Today
Imaging Notes
Environmental Geology
CNES SPIRIT
Environmental Earth Science Gottwald
EOS 2010
CSA SAR COORDINATION SUMMARY
Mission Plans
IPY Proposal Selections
ESA Selections
DLR Selections
NASA Selections
IPY Space Agency Data Portfolio Information and AO Links
ESA IPY Data Portfolio — June
CSA IPY Data Portfolio — June
ESA IPY Data Portfolio — Nov
NESDIS IPY Portfolio
DLR Data Portfolio
DLR Data Portfolio Access
ISRO AO Information — OceanSat–2
ASI IPY Data Portfolio (Battazza)
TEMIS Atmospheric Products
JAXA Products
Dataset Sampler and Demonstration
GIIPSY Links
IGOS Cryopshere
ESA Data Access
Radarsat SPA Archive
ESA Data Portal: ESA catalogue of portals
ASI COSMO-SkyMed
SPIRIT (SPOT DEMS)
Other Data Links
MERIS Images
Atmospheric Chemistry
POLARCAT
SCIA Data Browser
STG Members and EOS Co-Author List
International Polar Year – GIIPSY – Space Task Group Meetings 2006 - 2008
2006
- Briefing to WMO, GEO and IPY JCOMM SCOBS, Oct. 12 (Drinkwater)
- Briefing to IGOS Cryosphere Team, Oct. 16, ESTEC
- Briefing at NSIDC, Oct. 25, Boulder
- Presentation at IGS Nordic Branch, Tromso, Oct. 2006 (Lytle)
- GIIPSY participation in CSA Radarsat-1 Archive Processing Meeting, Nov. 8, Ottawa
- GIIPSY Team meeting, Dec 12
- Briefing to WCRP CLiC, Boulder, Colorado, Dec. 6 (Drinkwater)
AGU Fall Meeting GIIPSY (December 12, 2006)
Marriott Convention Center, Room Sierra K, San Francisco | 6:00PM-8:30PM
Draft Agenda
Perspectives (~45-60min)
10 min GIIPSY Overview and Meeting Objectives (K. Jezek)
~5 min discussion on how GIIPSY fits into IPY (D. Carlson)
~5 min IGOS and GIIPSY (V. Ryabinin)
~5 min ESA presentation on ESA IPY AO proposals (Einar-Arne Herland, ESA)
~5 min CSA perspective on GIIPSY and Radarsat-1 Archive (P. Briand)
~5 min Japanese perspective on GIIPSY (J. Ukita)
~5 min NASA perspective on GIIPSY (S. Martin)
~5 min Ground Station perspective on processing large volumes of data (N. La Belle-Hamer)
~5 min DLR perspective on GIIPSY (K. Jezek for I. Hajnsek)
Topics for discussion (K. Farness) (1-1.5 hour)
1) Community input to flight agencies on archival data processing and new data acquisitions
2) Identify key IPY legacy data set(s)
What?
Where?
When? (for example: during windows of seasonal melt or alternatively during cycles of ICESAT data acquisitions?)
3) Related issues and potential additional resources
Sensors and Spacecraft
Acquisition Planning
Receiving Ground Stations
Processing Facilities
Calibration and Validation
Distribution
4) Data management issues
Processing and product distribution
Product format
Metadata tagging for data explicitly collected for IPY including:
Insitu data
GIIPSY pull from the CSA archive
2007
- Space Task Group meeting in Geneva, January 17-19, 2007
- IPY Launch Event, Paris, March 1, 2007
- Space Task Group telecom, June 15, 2007 – (ESA Data Portfolio)
- Space Task Group Telecon, August 8, 2007 – (ASAP (RADARSAT-1) Portfolio)
- IICWG, October 2007, ESRIN, Frascatti
- Space Task Group Meeting, November 26-27, 2007, Darmstadt (Agenda, Presentation, and Background Material)
STG Meeting Geneva, WMO Headquarters (January 17-19, 2007)
Geneva, WMO Headquarters
Day 1
- Opening (welcome by Prof H.Yang, WMO Deputy Secretary-General)
- IPY Introduction (M. Drinkwater)
- Status of the IPY preparation (E. Sarukhanian for D. Carlson)
- Report on activities of Sub-Committee on Observations (SCOBS). Including background to Space Task Group (T. Mohr/W. Zhang)
- WCRP IGOS-Cryosphere Theme (V. Ryabinin)
- GIIPSY/Baseline Scientific Requirements for IPY datasets (K. Jezek)
- Agency presentations on existing IPY plans/proposals
- ESA (H. Laur)
- NASA (C. Dobson)
- ROSHYDROMET (V. Asmus): Pres 1; Pres 2
- DLR (M. Gottwald)
- EUMETSAT (K. Holmlund)
- CSA (J-M. Chouinard): Polar View
- CMA (L. Zhao)
- CNES (E. Thouvenot)
- Operational vs. Scientific missions (All)
Day 2
- Leaving an IPY legacy
- “The Polar Snapshot” K. Jezek, Example Acquisitions
- Geo Contribution (M. Rast and E. Sarukhanian)
- Mechanisms for collecting IPY data requirements
- SCOBS survey of IPY sat. data needs (E. Sarukhanian)
- Other Agency IPY AOs (All)
- Establishing the priorities for near-term/medium-term/long-term actions
- Acquisition planning/Tasking satellites (All)
- Data Management/Metadata standards (All)
- Archiving and Data Distribution (All)
- Data Policy (All)
- Discussion on Agency Commitments
- Baseline plans for data acquisitions
- Archiving and distribution
Day 3 (half-day)
- Missing Agencies
- Consolidation of Action Items
- Time and place of next Meeting
- Meeting Closure
Summary Documents
Report to CM-7
Slides presented by T. Mohr to CM-7
STG1 Summary
Space Task group of the IPY Sub-Committee on Observations (November 26-27, 2007)
Eumetsat, Darmstadt, Germany
Agenda, Presentation Summary, Attendees
Presentations (presenter initials — topic)
1. MD — Agenda
2. MD — GIIPSY
3. JL — HRPT Coverage
4. MG — DLR
5. AR — DLR-TSX
6. ET — CNES
7. ES — JC
8. YC — CSA
9. RK — GIIPSY
10. HL — ESA
11. FL — NASA
12. PCC — NOAA
13. OG — IPY-DM
Related Materials
TerraSAR-X Animation
TerraSAR-X Animation (short version)
Supporting Documents
Doc 1 IPY STG 2 Agenda
Doc 2 IPY STG1 Summary
Doc 3 IPY STG Telecon 1 Minutes
Doc 4 IPY STG Telecon 2 Minutes
Doc 5 IPY SCOBS Report
Doc 6 IPY IGEOLAB Report
IPY STG-2 Outcome of CGMS
Summary Documents
Draft Minutes
Updated Minutes
IPY STG2 Summary Report
IPY STG Slides to CM-8
2008
- STG SAR Workshop, March 2008, St. Hubert (Agenda, Presentations, and Background Material)
- Space Task Group Meeting, May 5-6, 2008, ESRIN Frascati, Italy (Details and Summary Reports)
- STG IPY Session, SCAR, July 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia
- STG SAR Workshop 2, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2008, DLR Oberpfaffenhovfen, Germany (Details)
Space Task Group of the IPY Sub-Committee on Observations SAR Workshop (March 5-6, 2008)
Canadian Space Agency, St. Hubert, Canada
As part of ongoing IPY Space Task Group activities, the Canadian Space Agency hosted an IPY SAR/InSAR workshop in response to an action item from STG-1. The goal of the meeting was to develop an acquisition strategy for SAR and InSAR data that achieves the maximum number of IPY science objectives in such a way as to distribute the acquisition load across the different agencies – understanding that no single agency can accommodate all of the tasks. This will require a level of coordination between the space agencies that has not yet been attempted. The workshop focused on data acquisition requirements, as outlined by the scientific community, based on Agency strategic plans for IPY and unique capabilities of their systems. Data processing and distribution issues were briefly addressed but the primary objective was to populate the archive given the unique opportunity of IPY.
The workshop main tasks were:
1) To review existing GIIPSY science requirements as outlined in the Global Inter-agency IPY Polar Snapshot Year (GIISPY) Strategy Document.
2) To present the Agencies strategic priorities in line with IPY science activities.
3) To present and review SAR data which are being collected, and are planned for collection during the IPY.
4) To present the satellite and ground segment operators system capabilities and constraints related to the acquisition of data in support to IPY.
5) To attempt to forge a coordinated / multi-agency SAR acquisition plan for the remainder of IPY acquisitions.
In order to meet these ambitious objectives, invited attendees, which include members of the science and operational communities, space agencies operating SAR satellite; space agencies with data transmission, ground segment and processing capabilities, and ground segment operators, were requested to actively contribute to the achievement of the workshop objectives.
Logistical Information
Agenda and Presentations
Agenda
Meeting Introduction (YC)
STG Background (YC)
GIIPSY Background (KJ)
ESA Portfolio (HL)
ESA and IPY (YD)
ESA Constraints (HL)
DLR Strategic Objectives (ED)
DLR IPY Data Constraints (ED)
TerraSAR Capabilities (DF)
TerraSAR Data Access (DF)
CSA Strategic Objectives (YC)
R1 Constraints (RSJ)
R2 Allocation (DdL)
ASF and JAXA (DA)
Ice Services (DL)
CNES Complementary Optical Studies (ET)
Summary and Action Items (YC and KJ)
Meeting Minutes
Participants List
Data Acquisition Plans
Strawman Acquisition Strategy Spreadsheet
Antarctic Acquisition Template
Sea Ice Acquisition Template
Arctic Land Ice Acquisition template
Space Task Group of the IPY Sub-Committee on Observations (May 5-6, 2008)
ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Logistical Information
ESRIN Map
Frascati Map
Rail Info
Frascati Info
Agenda
Background Documents
SAR Coordination Summary: CSA Workshop
STG 2 Meeting Notes
STG 3 Doc 2 (IPY Status)
STG 3 Doc 4 (Global Cryosphere Watch)
List of Documents
Preliminary List of Participants
Presentations
1. IPY Status
2. SAON Results
3. SAR Workshop Summary
4. GIIPSY Update
5. ASI COSMO-SkyMed IPY Status
6. JAXA IPY Status
7. CNES IPY Status
8. CSA IPY Status
9. DLR IPY Status
10. ESA IPY Status
11. EUMETSAT IPY Status
12. NOAA IPY Status
13. IGeoLab WMO Report
14. Data Management
15. WIGOS
16. Global Cryosphere Watch
17. VisIR Progress
Summary Material
Request on Radarsat Letter
Meeting Notes
Space Task Group of the IPY Sub-Committee on Observations SAR Workshop (September 30 – October 1, 2008)
DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
As a follow up to the STG action to enhance the coordination among the SAR Space Agencies in response to the IPY scientific objectives, a SAR/InSAR coordination workshop was held on 5/6 March 2008 at the Canadian Space Agency. As a result of this meeting, the SAR operating Agencies agreed on the strategic guidelines for imaging activities and for thematic priorities as outlined by the science community. Despite the significant way forward and considerable efforts we are putting to fulfill our commitments, there is still a need to develop a SAR Acquisition Consolidated Plan and discuss the way forward for a SAR processing strategy and data dissemination plan.
As part of the SAR coordination process, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is organising a second meeting to address the harmonisation and coordination of the acquisition plans. The objectives of this meeting are:
* Consolidate the current SAR planning and imaging activities occurring under the auspices of IPY/STG in order to avoid gaps and overlaps and optimize resources (i.e. thematic / instrument matrix, common planning tool, etc.)
* Distribute imaging load according to Agencies’ capacities and priorities, and develop acquisition plans
* Look at a short/med/long term planning approach to continue the acquisitions (if at all possible)
The meeting will be held at the DLR facilities in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany).
We now established the date of the workshop on 30 Sept./1 Oct.2008.
Logistical Information
Directions to DLR
Hotels close to DLR
Hotels in Munich
DRAFT Agenda
GIIPSY Draft Acquisition Plan Recommendation for TSX.
These plans were prepared to provide DLR with an estimate of SAR loading for Antarctic regions south of about –80°. Comments welcome. These are in addition to any individual proposals and to several super-site areas that the STG is considering in Greenland and Antarctica.
Filchner Ascending
Filchner Descending
TAM Ascending
TAM Descending
JAXA IPY Web Site (Comments welcomed by Dr. Masanobu Shimada)
Japanese: JAXA website | JAXA IPY Dataset page
English: JAXA website | JAXA IPY Dataset page
PALSAR Animations. Antarctic: /A, /B, /C
ESA/ESRIN Acquisitions and Plans
Information on upcoming ERS-2 acquisition from O’Higgins Station
Acquisition map for O’Higgins Station
Animation of ESA SAR data over Lincoln Sea. Courtesy Ron Kwok
Participants List
Agenda
Presentations
1) Buckreuss and Roth, DLR
2) Crevier, CSA
3) Jezek, OSU
4) Del Rio Vera, Drinkwater and Laur, ESA
5) Saint-Jean, CSA
6) Rigby, MDA
7) Hajnsek, DLR
8) Floricioiu, DLR
9) Braun, U Bonn
10) Helm and Miller, AWI
11) Hall, KSAT
Minutes
TSX Subgroup meeting (Thursday, Oct 2)
SAR Subgroup meeting Summary
IPY CGMS Report
Meeting Minutes
International Polar Year – GIIPSY – Space Task Group Meetings 2009 - 2011
2009
- STG Meeting, February 2009, Geneva (Agenda, Presentations, and Background Material)
- 3rd SAR Workshop, June 2009, Frascatti (Agenda, Presentations, and Background Material)
- STG Meeting, December 2009, Geneva (Agenda, Presentations, and Background Material)
IPY Space Task Group Meeting (February 3-4, 2009)
Geneva
Presentations
- Drinkwater
- Sarukhanian
- Crevier
- Gottwald (DLR portfolio)
- Gottwald (polar atmosphere)
- GOME animation
- SO2 image
- Godoy
- Thouvenot
- Key (NOAA Portfolio)
- a. Key (Polar Atmosphere)
b. Key (HRPT) - Goodison
- Ryan
- Del Rio Vera
- Arctic Flash Image
- Antarctic Flash Image
- a. Crevier (CSA update)
b. Crevier (Greenland)
c. Crevier (Antarctica)
d. Crevier (Polar Coms) - Key (CEOS gap analysis)
- GIIPSY Activities and Status (KJ presented by KF)
- Etna Deformation Video
- IRSPECTRA
- USGS 1
- USGS 2
- USGS 3
- USGS 4
Background Material
SAR Coordination Group Report (Crevier)
STG TOR
Draft Data Processing Strategy 3
Minutes of Meeting
Space Task Group of the IPY Sub-Committee on Observations SAR Workshop (June 23-24, 2009)
ESRIN, Frascatti, Italy
Participants List
Agenda
Presentations
CSA Data Portfolio Update (Crevier)
ASAR Acquisition Strategy Update (Del Rio Vera)
DLR TXS Update (Floricioiu)
NASA MEaSUREs (Dobson)
ASI IPY Data Portfolio (Battazza)
DUE Projects in the Cryosphere (Seifert)
ESA Climate Change Initiative (Arino)
PolarView — BAS (Flemming)
PolarView — DTU (Pederson)
Data Processing Strategy (Jezek)
RAMP Metadata (Farness)
IPY STG Communications (Drinkwater)
Minutes
IPY Space Task Group Meeting (November 30 – December 2, 2009)
Geneva
Agenda
Presentations
IPY Status
SAR Coodination
ASI Data Portfolio
Atmospheric Data
DLR Portfolio
CSA Report
ESA and IPY
Polar Communications, Space and Arctic
IPY Data Managmeent
Space and the Arctic
Global Cryospheric watch
WCRP
International Polar Decade
IPY SCOBS Status
Meeting Summary
Functions and Requirements Document
2010
Oslo IPY Meeting and STG Meeting (June) (Agenda, Presentations, and Background Material)
IPY Space Task Group Meeting (June 10, 2010)
Oslo, Longyearbyen Room (S20), 09:00hrs – 17:00hrs
Agenda (Very Preliminary)
Background Material
Drinkwater et al Presentation (PPT)
Drinkwater et al Presentation (PDF)
STG Accomplishments (PPT)
CSA SAR Working Group Summary
Conference Location and Space Posters Info
Other
- Polar Gateways Meeting, Barrow, Alaska, January 2008
- SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference, July 2008 St. Petersburg, Russia
- IPY STG SAR Workshop, March 5, 6 Canadian Space Agency, Montreal, Canada
- 2nd SAR Workshop Sept 30-Oct. 1 DLR Wessling Germany
- 2008 AGU Fall Meeting (Presentations and informal get together)
- 2008 AGU FALL MEETING TASK FORCE FOR REMOTE SENSING OF PERMAFROST. G. Grosse and C. Duguay. Monday, 15 December 2008, 5:00-6:30 pm in the San Francisco Marriott Pacific Room A (Agenda)
- STG-4, Feb. 3-4, 2009, WMO, Geneva
Global Inter-agency IPY Polar Snapshot Year
The International Council for Science (ICSU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) approved the Global Interagency IPY Polar Snapshot Year (GIIPSY) as an 2007-2008 IPY project (Project #91). High-definition satellite snapshots of the Arctic and Antarctic would be invaluable polar documentation for comparing with past and future datasets. Therefore, GIIPSY worked to establish an international network of organizations willing to collaborate with their spaceborne satellites and share data processing, archiving, and distributing responsibilities. The IPY Space Task Group (STG) served as an intermediary between GIIPSY and international space agencies. GIIPSY was able to reach its goals by working with eight national space agencies and their spaceborne satellites.
Contact Information
Kenneth Jezek
1090 Carmack Road
Columbus, OHIO 43210
USA
Phone: 614-292-7973
Email: [email protected]
Mark Drinkwater
Head, Mission Science Division
ESA, ESTEC
Earth Observations
Postbus 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk
The Netherlands
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +31 (0)71-565-5673
Fax: +31 (0)71-565-5675