1. GIIPSY Activities STG-3 to STG 4 Ken Jezek Katy Farness Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University DLR’s TerraSAR-X Acquisition: Recovery Glacier Tributary Ice Stream Oct 2008 – Jan 2009

2. GIIPSY Accomplishments Participation in DLR SAR Workshop Mission Planning Assistance for TerraSAR X Measurements over Antarctica South of 80° Advice given for RADARSAT 2 Acquisitions of Antarctica Participation in International Polar Day Webinar (Europe and North America) including assistance with Agency press releases Presentation to Permafrost Task Force at December AGU GIIPSY Poster at AGU Preparation of a Data Processing Strategy Document Proposed Acquisition and Partition of Ice Streams south of 80º S TerraSAR-X

3. In the spirit of the IPY data acquisition phase, data processing strategy utilizes the shared resources of the international space agencies to effectively and economically process the voluminous and diverse data set. Accomplishable if the agencies can focus on specific and well defined themes. Objective is to identify the most important and unique data products from the IPY data set. Selection criteria include that the products have high scientific value, be applicable for use by policy makers and be generally exciting to the public. Draft Data Processing Strategy

4. Elements of the Plan 2.Seek concurrence on the plan from the STG members who will be responsible for securing resources for processing their own contributed data sets (STG members). 3.Data fusion into seamless products including development of data fusion protocols and procedures for assuring data product quality. Must include the capability for any interested members of the science community to understand all algorithms and to perform validation activities (STG and GIIPSY). 1.Identify the key science objectives and the associated data products (GIIPSY) SSM/I ICE CONCENTRATION Jan 9, 2009

5. SAR Data Product Requirements Data ProductProduct SpecificationSatellite System 1 winter C band SAR image of the Antarctic 25 m grid, orthorectified, radiometrically seamless polarimetric data set; subsets provided at 100 and 200 m grid spacing, polar stereographic project, -71 S Radarsat-2 1 winter and 1 summer L,C and X band image of viewable Antarctica, and the Arctic Ice Caps 25 m grid, orthorectified, radiometrically seamless polarimetric data set; subsets provided at 100 and 200 m grid spacing, polar stereographic project, -71 S Combination of ASAR, COSMOS- SKYMED, TerraSAR-X, Radarsat-2, ERS-2, PALSAR 1 pole-to-coast surface velocity map of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets 500 m post spacing, x,y,z components of velocity vector (ascending/descending; InSAR/speckle), geocoded Combination of ASAR, COSMOS- SKYMED, TerraSAR-X, Radarsat-2, ERS-2, PALSAR(DEM requirements fulfilled by optical and laser data - see table 2) 1 complete surface velocity map of the major Canadian Icefields 500 m post spacing, x,y,z components of velocity vector (ascending/descending; InSAR/speckle), geocoded Combination of ASAR, COSMOS- SKYMED, TerraSAR-X, Radarsat-2, ERS-2, PALSAR (DEM requirements fulfilled by optical and laser data - see table 2) Southern Ocean Sea Ice Motion Grids 1-10 km grid, x and y components of sea ice velocity polar stereographic projection RADARSAT-1, RADARSAT-1, PALSAR, ASAR GMM and WSM mode swath and mosaic-derived products, RGPS Products Arctic Sea Ice Motion Grids1-10 km grid, x and y components of sea ice velocity polar stereographic projection RADARSAT-1, RADARSAT-1, PALSAR, ASAR GMM and WSM mode swath and mosaic-derived products, RGPS Products

6. Optical Data Product Requirements ESA: MERIS SATELLITE Jakobshavn ‘08 Data ProductProduct SpecificationSatellite System Digital Elevation Models of the Coastal Regions of the Polar Ice Sheets See SPIRIT PROJECT TBD SPOT, PRISM, ASTER Integrated Digital Elevation Models of the Polar Ice sheets and Ice Caps TBD SPOT, PRISM, ASTER ICEsat data set, Cryosat Continent-scale MosaicsNRCan, 250m (TBC)MODIS, Landsat Arctic MosaicsGlobCover, 300mSPOT, Landsat, MERIS Snow/Ice Surface Temp. TBDMODIS/AATSR