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Glacierhack 2018 (Project Title)

DEM differencing and time series analysis.

Collaborators

  • Elad Dente - Hydro-Geomorphology
  • Håvard Holm - Applied Mathematics
  • Daniel Howard - Applied Mathematics
  • Michelle Hu - Hydrology - Snow Water Runoff
  • Lynn Kaack - Applied Mathematics
  • Joachim Meyer - Computer Science and Software Development
  • Wei Wei - Geophysics - Ice Sheets and Ocean Interactions

Team Lead

  • Shashank Bhushan - Glaciology and Geospatial Image Analysis

Data Science Lead

  • Friedrich Knuth - Data Science Methods and Geospatial Image Analysis

Dataset

Khumbu Time Series

Problem (What?)

  • Can we quantify inter-annual changes in digital elevation models that represent glacial mass balance?
  • Is the trendfitting of glacial mass change robust to systems that experience high variability?
  • Can we improve upon time series analysis methods cappturing changes in digital elevation models (DEMs)?
  • What can we learn from image analysis and statistical methods (machine learning), applied to this 4 dimensional array?
  • How do our solutions perform at scale? Can we leverage the xarray stack and processing power of a Pangeo? Pangeo is a kubernetes powered jupyterhub configuration that enables distributed data processing and analysis through dask and xarray.
  • How much water is being released / added to the system?
  • Can we calculate velocities from changes in elevation and create a velocity map/vector field for the glacier?

Relevance (So What?)

  • Predict the fate of glaciers and impact for water resource management.
  • Explore if methods developed for this dataset can be applied to other glacier systems, such as glaciers that experience periodic surges.
  • Learn new data science tools, together.

Methods (Now What?)

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Goals

  • Run pygeotools and raster tutorial workflow on Khumbu dataset. Explore time series analysis. notebook
  • Read DEMs into Xarray and compare performance to pygeotools operations. notebook
  • Visualize and extract elevation profiles from DEMs. notebook
  • Create velocity maps from hillshade profiles using vmap and NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline. notebook
  • Read in DEM data straight from Google Drive without downloading the files. notebook

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See the Wiki

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