In keeping with this year’s Summer Meeting theme of “Increasing the Use and Value of Earth Science Data and Information,” this session aims to explore different data streams used for monitoring of the hydrosphere and cryosphere. Earth science data for water resources monitoring has existed as field collected data, remote sensing, modeled and in situ data for decades but relatively recent increases in computational capabilities (e.g. cloud computing platforms), data storage and integration and processing methods like machine learning have allowed researchers to ask a suite of questions that rely on data from multiple sources and typologies to answer complex questions about water resources critical to humans and ecosystems. To emphasize the ‘use and value of earth science data’ this session will incorporate presentations on data generation and processing methods as well as applied uses of data products for water resources monitoring.
Presenter: Eric Sproles
Presentation Title: Bridging the Scaling Issues of Earth Observations
Slides: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8980400Presenter: Jeffrey Deems
Presentation Title: New Data, Old Problems: Integrating Novel Data Sources for Study & Management of Snowmelt Systems
Slides: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8980406Presenter: Yuhan Rao
Presentation Title: Integrating Satellite Observations and In Situ Measurements to Study Snow-Albedo-Temperature Interactions Over the Tibetan Plateau
Slides: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8980409Presenter: Scott Oviatt
Presentation Title: National Resources Conservation Service SNOTEL Network
Slides: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8980415Presenter: Ruth Duerr
Presentation Title: Polar Data Activities
Slides: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8980397Session Take-Aways
- NRCS plans to convert long-term snow courses to SNOTEL, continue to pursue tech upgrades, develop new methodologies to improve accuracy
- Machine learning can integrate satellite observations and in situ measurements to create a more complete measurement
- UAV provide higher density albedo measurements, remote locations, multiple field sites
- Creating an integrated system for the future to track cryospheric changes
- Arctic Data Committee has technical and semantic guidance for integrating cryospheric data
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