Applied Users

Our work focuses on use of ICESat-2 bathymetry in marine navigation, coral reef restoration, benthic habitat mapping, analysis of storm-induced seafloor morphology change, and related coastal science and management applications. With Lori Magruder at the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas at Austin, we are working on a new ICESat-2 along-track bathymetry product, ATL24. In work with Jenn Dijkstra at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at University of New Hampshire, we are investigating use of ICESat-2 bathymetry for monitoring changes in coral reef restoration sites managed by Mote Marine Lab in the Florida Keys. With Gretchen Imahori of NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey, Remote Sensing Division, we are investigating use of ICESat-2 bathymetry in NOAA’s SatBathy software. Our graduate students are investigating ICESat-2 aided satellite derived bathymetry (SDB), bathymetric change analysis, and benthic habitat mapping.

Nick Forfinski-Sarkozi, who was a PhD student working on this project when I submitted the initial abstract, is now at NOAA NGS and leading several important initiatives related to NSRS Modernization, but, unfortunately for us, is no longer actively part of our ICESat-2 bathymetry work.