NSIDC DAAC HightlightsUser Working Group Meeting

Boulder, CO 3-4 September 2014

NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center

New DAAC Manager

• After 25+ years, Ron Weaver retired from the DAAC Manager position on July 1 He will remain on at NSIDC 50% time

• On Sept 16, Dr. Brian Johnson will become the new DAAC manager 25 years of experience working with managers, scientists, and engineers to

develop advanced remote sensing technologies and data processing techniques for weather, climate, and environmental research applications

Has experience in both research and industryo Algorithm Manager – JPSS/Raytheon, Deputy Director- Ball Aerospace, Project

Scientist - NCAR, Sr. Staff Scientist - NEON PhD in Atmosphere and Space Sciences, Masters in Electrical Engineering

DAAC Contract

• Period of Performance: June 1, 2013 – May 31, 2018

• Awarded July 31, 2013 1 year with 4 one year options – different than

past contracts• Currently in option year 1

Easy transition into the first option year

DAAC Activities

FY2014 FTE Allocations

Mission Support

• Aqua/AMSR-E http://nsidc.org/data/amsre

• Aqua & Terra/MODIS http://nsidc.org/data/modis

• Aquarius (Soil Moisture) http://aquarius.nasa.gov/

• ICESat/GLAS http://nsidc.org/data/icesat

• ICESat-2 http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/icesat2/

• Operation IceBridge (OIB) http://nsidc.org/data/icebridge/

• Passive Microwave (SMMR, SSM/I, SSMIS) http://nsidc.org/data/polar_stereo http://nsidc.org/data/ease

• MEaSUREs 2006 & 2012 http://nsidc.org/data/measures

• Nimbus 1, 2, 3 (1960s) http://nsidc.org/data/nimbus/

• SMAP http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/

New in FY2014• Aquarius (Polar-gridded data)

http://aquarius.nasa.gov/

• Nimbus 4 http://nsidc.org/data/nimbus/

• Operation IceBridge (OIB) – ARISE http://nsidc.org/data/icebridge/

Mission Support

• AMSR-E Sea Ice reprocessing completed with an updated

Southern hemisphere land mask• Aquarius

Published L2 & L3 Soil Moisture products (R. Bindlish, T. Jackson)

Published L3 Polar-gridded products (L. Brucker)o First non-OIB data provider to use MetGen

• ICESat/GLAS HDF5 formatted data and subsetter are available

Mission Support

• ICESat-2 Evaluating large data transfer technologies Establishing visualization & analysis working group

• MEaSUREs Produced imagery from J. Kimball’s Freeze/Thaw

product for NASA’s WorldView/GIBS

Mission Support

• Nimbus Published L1 and L3 visible & infrared imagery

and ice edge from Nimbus 1, 2, & 3o Utilized MetGen

Additional funds to produce Nimbus 4products

50th Anniversary of Nimbus 1

Mission Support

• Operation IceBridge Tremendous strides with data providers using

MetGen o Creates file-level metadata, including a Geo polygon

around the data, needed for automated ingest into ECS

Co-managing Arctic Radiation-IceBridge Sea & Ice Experiment (ARISE) campaign data with LaRC

• Passive Microwave TB production code overhaul to use improved

input data stream across multiple satellites and to capture production-level provenance

Mission Support• SMAP

Launch moved from Nov 5 to Jan 8 Valuable insights from supporting Applications

Working Group, Early Adopters, and Cal/Val partners

Data system has been fully vetted for ingest & distributiono Raytheon has initiated

development of subsetting services

o SMAP SDS producingWorldView/GIBS imagery

Engineering & Development

• NSIDC Data Search Provides users with information and features to

make it easier to identify and differentiate data sets with the best fit for their use

Guided by usability testing Collaboration between NASA NSIDC DAAC

and NSF ACADIS http://nsidc.org/data/search/

Engineering & Development

• Operation IceBridge Portal Current interface’s flightline-based workflow has

been popular To broaden the audience, redesigning the

interface to present a data-driven workflow http://nsidc.org/icebridge/portal/

Engineering & Development

• Satellite Observations of Change (SOAC) Interactive maps of the Arctic based on NASA

satellite and related data. Site allows users to explore how conditions in the

Arctic have changed over time http://nsidc.org/soac

Infrastructure• Expanded usage of virtualization

Virtualized the GLAS Binary subsetter Virtual appliances for custom software applications Wrote a vagant-vsphere provider and lead a

VMWorld session - "Rapid Provisioning with Vagrant, vSphere, and Puppet”

• Migrated data storage from a Storage Area Network (SAN) to a Network Attached System (NAS) Improved performance, reliability, & scalabilityWikipedia: Virtualization refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including but not limited to a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources.

User Services

• Science Communications Implemented Drupal for Web content

management Streamlined Web site menu and information

architecture leveraging the new Data Search