Python package and associated notebooks to efficiently search and download ITS_LIVE ice sheet velocity data from the new AWS-hosted zarr datacube format.

Currently works for mosaic format (see download_mosaic.ipynb), but yet to implement scene-pairs.

Velocity data generated using auto-RIFT (Gardner et al., 2018) and provided by the NASA MEaSUREs ITS_LIVE project (Gardner et al., 2024).

Gardner, A. S., G. Moholdt, T. Scambos, M. Fahnstock, S. Ligtenberg, M. van den Broeke, and J. Nilsson, 2018: Increased West Antarctic and unchanged East Antarctic ice discharge over the last 7 years, Cryosphere, 12(2): 521–547, https://doi:10.5194/tc-12-521-2018.

Gardner, A. S., M. A. Fahnestock, and T. A. Scambos, 2024 [when citing, update to time of data download]: ITS_LIVE Regional Glacier and Ice Sheet Surface Velocities: Version 1. Data archived at National Snow and Ice Data Center; https://doi:10.5067/6II6VW8LLWJ7.