NASA’s ICESat-2 data indicated that the Barents Sea ice was very thin in mid-March 2026.
ICESat-2 uses laser ranging technology to determine its orbital position.
ICEYE and ICESat-2 are radar (SAR and I-SAR) missions identified as notable for 3D Earth observation.
GEDI is mounted on the ISS to profile vegetation, while ICESat-2, developed by NASA, focuses on ice and surface altimetry.
Satellites used in monitoring include the NASA Nimbus-7 (1978–1987) and the ICESat-2 starting in 2018.
Global Satellite Derived Bathymetry (G-SDB) products from TCarta are generated using Machine Learning and ICESat-2 laser data at a 10-meter resolution.
TCarta has unveiled the use of ICESat-2 LiDAR data sets for SDB validation.
The TCarta Global Satellite Derived Bathymetry (G-SDB) products are generated with Machine Learning and ICESat-2 laser data.
TCarta has unveiled the use of ICESat-2 LiDAR data sets for use in SDB validation.
NASA’s ICESat-2 mission launched in 2018.
All ICESat-2 data are housed and managed at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).
NASA awarded the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation-2 (ICESat-2) Mission Operations Center Support contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Dulles, Virginia.
The SDB data sets measured the seafloor to depths of 20 to 25 m and were validated using ICESat-2 data.
NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite launched in 2018 and its space-based laser data was included in TCarta’s SDB research.
A two-meter-resolution SDB product for Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts was produced using WorldView satellite imagery with ICESat-2 tracks overlaid.
TCarta Marine supplied the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with satellite-derived bathymetry validated by green laser altimeter data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite for two U.S. shallow-water coastal areas.
ICESat-2 is a NASA satellite equipped with a laser-based lidar instrument capable of capturing three-dimensional structure of forests.
Lana Narine implemented methods she developed prior to the ICESat-2 mission to better understand the satellite data and to develop methodologies for vegetation applications.
TCarta developed an AI-based technique that leverages ICESat-2 data to train the SDB algorithm and validate results.
The processed Sentinel-2 and ICESat-2 data yielded a 10-meter bathymetric map covering 130,000 square kilometers provided via the Esri Caribbean GeoPortal.