1. NSIDC DAAC Hightlights User Working Group Meeting Boulder, CO 3-4 September 2014 NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center

2. 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 industry o 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

3. 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

4. DAAC Activities FY2014 FTE Allocations

5. Mission Support Aqua/AMSR-E  http://nsidc.org/data/amsre http://nsidc.org/data/amsre Aqua & Terra/MODIS  http://nsidc.org/data/modis http://nsidc.org/data/modis Aquarius (Soil Moisture)  http://aquarius.nasa.gov/ http://aquarius.nasa.gov/ ICESat/GLAS  http://nsidc.org/data/icesat http://nsidc.org/data/icesat ICESat-2  http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/icesat2/ http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/icesat2/ Operation IceBridge (OIB)  http://nsidc.org/data/icebridge/ http://nsidc.org/data/icebridge/ Passive Microwave (SMMR, SSM/I, SSMIS)  http://nsidc.org/data/polar_stereo http://nsidc.org/data/polar_stereo  http://nsidc.org/data/ease http://nsidc.org/data/ease MEaSUREs 2006 & 2012  http://nsidc.org/data/measures http://nsidc.org/data/measures Nimbus 1, 2, 3 (1960s)  http://nsidc.org/data/nimbus/ http://nsidc.org/data/nimbus/ SMAP  http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/ http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/ New in FY2014 Aquarius (Polar-gridded data)  http://aquarius.nasa.gov/ http://aquarius.nasa.gov/ Nimbus 4  http://nsidc.org/data/nimbus/ http://nsidc.org/data/nimbus/ Operation IceBridge (OIB) – ARISE  http://nsidc.org/data/icebridge/ http://nsidc.org/data/icebridge/

6. 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

7. 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

8. Mission Support Nimbus  Published L1 and L3 visible & infrared imagery and ice edge from Nimbus 1, 2, & 3 o Utilized MetGen  Additional funds to produce Nimbus 4 products  50 th Anniversary of Nimbus 1

9. 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

10. 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 & distribution o Raytheon has initiated development of subsetting services o SMAP SDS producing WorldView/GIBS imagery

11. 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/ http://nsidc.org/data/search/

12. 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/ http://nsidc.org/icebridge/portal/

13. 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 http://nsidc.org/soac

14. 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, & scalability Wikipedia: 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.virtualcomputer hardware operating systemstorage devicecomputer network

15. User Services Science Communications  Implemented Drupal for Web content management  Streamlined Web site menu and information architecture leveraging the new Data Search