Who is using icepyx?

How is icepyx being used by the ICESat-2 data user community?

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Projects and Organizations

Projects and organizations that use icepyx.

Publications About icepyx

Peer-reviewed publications about icepyx software

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Scheick, Jessica, Leong, Wei Ji, Bisson, Kelsey, Arendt, Anthony, Bhushan, Shashank, Fair, Zachary, Hagen, Norland Raphael, Henderson, Scott, Knuth, Friedrich, Li, Tian, Liu, Zheng, Piunno, Romina, Ravinder, Nitin, Setiawan, Landung "Don", Sutterley, Tyler, Swinski, JP, and Anubhav. icepyx: querying, obtaining, analyzing, and manipulating ICESat-2 datasets. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(84):4912, 2023. URL: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04912, doi:10.21105/joss.04912.

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Scheick, Jessica, Piunno, Romina, Fair, Zachary, Tilling, Rachel, Bella, A. Di, Abib, Nicole, and Bisson, Kelsey. Software to enable ocean discoveries: a case study with ICESat-2 and Argo. Geoscience Data Journal, 12(3):e291, 2025. J. Scheick and R. Piunno contributed equally to this work. URL: https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gdj3.291, arXiv:https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/gdj3.291, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.291.

icepyx in the open-source landscape

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Bednar, James A. and Durant, Martin. The Pandata scalable open-source analysis stack. In Proceedings of the 22nd Python in Science Conference (SciPy 2023), volume, 85–92. 2023. URL: https://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/scipy2023/pdfs/james_bednar.pdf, doi:.

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Chudley, Thomas R. and Howat, Ian M. pDEMtools: conveniently search, download, and processArcticDEM and REMA products. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(102):7149, October 2024. doi:10.21105/joss.07149.

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Shean, David, Swinski, J.p., Smith, Ben, Sutterley, Tyler, Henderson, Scott, Ugarte, Carlos, Lidwa, Eric, and Neumann, Thomas. SlideRule: enabling rapid, scalable, open science for the NASA ICESat-2 mission and beyond. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(81):4982, 2023. URL: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04982, doi:10.21105/joss.04982.

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Tankersley, Matthew D. PolarToolkit: Python Tools for Convenient,Reproducible, and Open Polar Science. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(100):6502, August 2024. doi:10.21105/joss.06502.

Presentations and Materials Featuring icepyx

Presentations that feature or explain icepyx

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Arendt, Anthony, Scheick, Jessica, Shean, David, Buckley, Ellen, Grigsby, Shane, Haley, Charley, Heagy, Lindsey, Mohajerani, Yara, Neumann, Tom, Nilsson, Johan, Markus, Thorsten, Paolo, Fernando S., Perez, Fernando, Petty, Alek, Schweiger, Axel, Smith, Benjamin, Steiker, Amy, Alvis, Sebastian, Henderson, Scott, Holschuh, Nick, Liu, Zheng, and Sutterley, Tyler. 2020 ICESat-2 Hackweek Tutorials. August 2020. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3966463, doi:10.5281/zenodo.3966463.

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Henderson, Scott, Meyer, Joachim, Scheick, Jessica, Arendt, Anthony, Barciauskas, Aimee, Barrett, Andy, Bhushan, Shashank, Ji, Wei, Piunno, Romina, Setiawan, Don, Snow, Tasha, Sutterley, Tyler, and Swinski, JP. ICESAT-2HackWeek/website-2024: 2024 Jupyter Book. November 2024. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14052799, doi:10.5281/zenodo.14052799.

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Meyer, Joachim, Arndt, Philipp, Arendt, Anthony, YoungHyunKoo, Swinski, JP, Henderson, Scott, Scheick, Jessica, Barrett, Andy, Steiker, Amy, Snow, Tasha, Piunno, Romina, Sutterley, Tyler, Yekeen, Shamsudeen Temitope, King, Michalea, M, Jonathan, Barciauskas, Aimee, Williams, Jullian, Zikan, Karina (Inka), Ji, Wei, Lowndes, Julia Stewart, Sauthoff, Wilson, Fair, Zach, and liuzheng-arctic. Icesat-2hackweek/icesat-2-hackweek-2023: 2023. January 2024. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10519966, doi:10.5281/zenodo.10519966.

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Scheick, J, Bisson, K, Fair, Z, Piunno, R, Leong, WJ, Lopez, L, and Hall, S. icepyx as an icebreaker: starting conversations and building competencies in open science. Invited abstract and poster. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA. 12-16 December 2022., 2022. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7837428.

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Scheick, J., Arendt, A., Heagy, L., Paolo, F., Perez, F., and Steiker, A. \texttt icepyx: developing community and software around ICESat-2 Data. 2020. Abstract and eLightning (poster + presentation). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, virtual, USA. 1-17 December 2020.

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Scheick, J., Arendt, A., Heagy, L., and Perez, F. Introducing icepyx, an open source Python library for obtaining and working with ICESat-2 data. 2019. Abstract and poster. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. 9-13 December 2019. doi:10.1002/essoar.10501423.1.

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Scheick, J., Arendt, Anthony, Haley, Charley, Henderson, Scott, Koh, Jane, Setiawan, Don, Alterman, Naomi, Meyer, Joachim, Cristea, Nicoleta, Schweiger, Axel, Barciauskas, Aimee, Smith, Ben, Piunno, Romina, Shapero, Daniel, Fair, Zachary, Arndt, Philipp, Leong, Wei Ji, Sutterley, Tyler, Snow, Tasha, Beig, Mikala, Besso, Hannah, Liu, Zheng, Joughin, Ian, Bisson, Kelsey, and Sauthoff, Wilson. ICESat-2 Hackweek Website. April 2022. If you use this book, please cite it as below. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6462479, doi:10.5281/zenodo.6462479.

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Scheick, Jessica, Bisson, Kelsey, Fair, Zachary, Piunno, Romina, Abib, Nicole, Di Bella, Alessandro, and Tilling, Rachel. On a QUEST (Query, Unify, Explore SpatioTemporal) to accelerate ICESat-2 applications in ocean science via icepyx. January 2024. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10563003, doi:10.5281/zenodo.10563003.

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Scheick, Jessica, Bisson, Kelsey, Li, Tian, Leong, Wei Ji, and Arendt, Anthony. Collaborative computational resource development around ICESat-2 data: the icepyx community and library. Earth and Space Science Open Archive, pages 9, 2022. Abstract and poster (presented by Wei Ji Leong). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA. 13-17 December 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10511316.1, doi:10.1002/essoar.10511316.1.

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Wegener, Rachel, Lopez, Luis, Steiker, Amy, and Scheick, Jessica. Using icepyx to access ICESat-2 data. November 2023. GEDI/ICESat-2 Workshop, 2023 Space and Sustainability Colloquium (Espacio y Sostenibilidad). Sociedad Latinoamericana en Percepción Remota y Sistemas de Información Espacial (SELPER), Guadalajara, Mexico, 15-16 November 2023. URL: https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/2023-ssc/.

Publications Utilizing icepyx

Research that utilizes icepyx for ICESat-2 data

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Al-Attabi, Zaid, Narayan, Siddharth, Campbell, Anthony, Wuppukondur, Ananth, Babanawo, Daystar, Xu, Yicheng, Thomas, Nathan, Fatoyinbo, Lola, and Lagomasino, David. Sensitivity of Flood Extent and Population Exposure to Variations in Bathymetry Across a Shallow Continental Shelf Lagoon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 131(3):e2025JC022956, March 2026. doi:10.1029/2025JC022956.

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Bisson, K. M. and Cael, B. B. How are under ice phytoplankton related to sea ice in the Southern Ocean? Geophysical Research Letters, 48(21):e2021GL095051, 2021. doi:10.1029/2021GL095051.

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Eidam, E. F., Bisson, K., Wang, C., Walker, C., and Gibbons, A. ICESat-2 and ocean particulates: A roadmap for calculating \emph Kd from space-based lidar photon profiles. Remote Sensing of Environment, 311:114222, September 2024. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2024.114222.

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Eidam, Emily, Walker, Catherine, Bisson, Kelsey, Paris, Matthew, and Cooper, Lillian. Novel application of ICESat-2 ATLAS data to determine coastal light attenuation as a proxy for suspended particulate matter. In OCEANS 2022, Hampton Roads, volume, 1–7. 2022. doi:10.1109/OCEANS47191.2022.9977084.

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Fair, Zachary, Vuyovich, Carrie, Neumann, Thomas, Pflug, Justin, Shean, David, Enderlin, Ellyn M., Zikan, Karina, Besso, Hannah, Lundquist, Jessica, Deschamps-Berger, Cesar, and Treichler, Désirée. Review article: using spaceborne lidar for snow depth retrievals: recent findings and utility for hydrologic applications. The Cryosphere, 19(11):5671–5691, November 2025. doi:10.5194/tc-19-5671-2025.

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Fernando, Garrido. Mapping the diversity of agricultural systems in the Cuellaje Sector, Cotacachi, Ecuador using ATL08 for the ICESat-2 Mission and machine learning techniques. In Gervasi, Osvaldo, Murgante, Beniamino, Misra, Sanjay, Garau, Chiara, Blečić, Ivan, Taniar, David, Apduhan, Bernady O., Rocha, Ana Maria A. C., Tarantino, Eufemia, and Torre, Carmelo Maria, editors, Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021, volume 12957, 170–181. Cham, 2021. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-87013-3_13.

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Freer, B. I. D., Marsh, O. J., Hogg, A. E., Fricker, H. A., and Padman, L. Modes of Antarctic tidal grounding line migration revealed by Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) laser altimetry. The Cryosphere, 17(9):4079–4101, 2023. URL: https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/4079/2023/, doi:10.5194/tc-17-4079-2023.

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Golin, Ailé Selenne, Páez Campos, Hugo Ramiro, Guevara Ochoa, Cristian, Dávila, Claudia Fernanda, and Vives, Luis Sebastián. Assessing open-access digital elevation models for hydrological applications in a large scale plain: drainage networks, shallow water bodies and vertical accuracy. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49(15):5269–5283, 2024. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/esp.6035, arXiv:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/esp.6035, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.6035.

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Ideström, Petter. Remote sensing of cryospheric surfaces: small scale surface roughness signatures in satellite altimetry data. Master's thesis, UmeåUniversity, Sweden, Sept. 2023. URL: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1801057/FULLTEXT01.pdf.

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Kamath, Harsh G., Singh, Manmeet, Malviya, Neetiraj, Martilli, Alberto, He, Liu, Aliaga, Daniel, He, Cenlin, Chen, Fei, Magruder, Lori A., Yang, Zong-Liang, and Niyogi, Dev. GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS) for city- and street- scale urban simulations: Development and first applications. Scientific Data, 11(1):886, August 2024. doi:10.1038/s41597-024-03719-w.

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Leite, Rodrigo V., Amaral, Cibele, Neigh, Christopher S. R., Cosenza, Diogo N., Klauberg, Carine, Hudak, Andrew T., Aragão, Luiz, Morton, Douglas C., Coffield, Shane, McCabe, Tempest, and Silva, Carlos A. Leveraging the next generation of spaceborne Earth observations for fuel monitoring and wildland fire management. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 11(2):133–155, April 2025. doi:10.1002/rse2.416.

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Li, T., Dawson, G. J., Chuter, S. J., and Bamber, J. L. Mapping the grounding zone of Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica, from ICESat-2 laser altimetry. The Cryosphere, 14(11):3629–3643, 2020. URL: https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/3629/2020/, doi:10.5194/tc-14-3629-2020.

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Malambo, Lonesome and Popescu, Sorin. Mapping vegetation canopy height across the contiguous United States using ICESat-2 and ancillary datasets. Remote Sensing of Environment, 309:114226, August 2024. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2024.114226.

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Mallinis, Giorgos, Verde, Natalia, Siachalou, Sofia, Latinopoulos, Dionisis, Akratos, Christos, and Kagalou, Ifigenia. Evaluation of multiple classifier systems for mapping different hierarchical levels of forest ecosystems in the mediterranean region using Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, and ICESat-2 data. Forests, 2023. URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/11/2224, doi:10.3390/f14112224.

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Musthafa, Mohamed, Singh, Gulab, and Kumar, Praveen. Comparison of forest stand height interpolation of GEDI and ICESat-2 LiDAR measurements over tropical and sub-tropical forests in India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195(1):71, 2022. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10657-w, doi:10.1007/s10661-022-10657-w.

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Narin, Omer Gokberk. Evaluation and integration of spaceborne altimetry missions for inland water level monitoring: a multi-country study. Advances in Space Research, 77(1):281–296, January 2026. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2025.09.078.

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Snellink, Kamil. Assessing land ice height decrease of the Fleming Glacier using ICESat-2 satellite data: a 2019-2022 analysis. July 2023. Bachelor Thesis. Applied Earth Sciences, Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing. URL: https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:909190a5-b91d-4f67-8134-3f19756ed817?collection=education.

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Sothe, Camile, Gonsamo, Alemu, Lourenço, Ricardo B., Kurz, Werner A., and Snider, James. Spatially continuous mapping of forest canopy height in Canada by combining GEDI and ICESat-2 with PALSAR and Sentinel. Remote Sensing, 14(20):5158, Oct 2022. Attribution to icepyx from 15 Oct 2022 Twitter post, https://twitter.com/rblourenco/status/1581320878511382528. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14205158, doi:10.3390/rs14205158.

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Tian, Xiangxi and Shan, Jie. ICESat-2 controlled integration of GEDI and SRTM data for large-scale digital elevation model generation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 62():1–14, 2024. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2024.3389821.

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Tian, Xiangxi and Shan, Jie. Learning-Based Spatial Interpolation for Sparse Space Altimetry Measurements. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 63:1–14, 2025. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2025.3643406.

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van Leeuwen, Gijs. The automated retrieval of supraglacial lake depth and extent from ICESat-2 photon clouds leveraging DBSCAN clustering. 2022. Utrecht University Masters Thesis. URL: https://studenttheses.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/20.500.12932/43402/MSC_thesis_ICESat2_GJvanLeeuwen.pdf?sequence=1.