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message: 'To cite package "IceSat2R" in publications use:'
type: software
license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'IceSat2R: ''ICESat-2'' Altimeter Data using R'
version: 1.1.0
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.IceSat2R
abstract: Programmatic connection to the 'OpenAltimetry' API <https://openaltimetry.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/data/openapi/swagger-ui/index.html/>
  to download and process 'ATL03' (Global 'Geolocated' Photon Data), 'ATL06' (Land
  Ice Height), 'ATL07' (Sea Ice Height), 'ATL08' (Land and Vegetation Height), 'ATL10'
  (Sea Ice 'Freeboard'), 'ATL12' (Ocean Surface Height) and 'ATL13' (Inland Water
  Surface Height) 'ICESat-2' Altimeter Data. The user has the option to download the
  data by selecting a bounding box from a 1- or 5-degree grid globally utilizing a
  shiny application. The 'ICESat-2' mission collects 'altimetry' data of the Earth's
  surface. The sole instrument on 'ICESat-2' is the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter
  System (ATLAS) instrument that measures ice sheet elevation change and sea ice thickness,
  while also generating an estimate of global vegetation biomass. 'ICESat-2' continues
  the important observations of ice-sheet elevation change, sea-ice 'freeboard', and
  vegetation canopy height begun by 'ICESat' in 2003.
authors:
- family-names: Mouselimis
  given-names: Lampros
  email: mouselimislampros@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8024-1546
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'IceSat2R: ICESat-2 Altimeter Data using R'
  authors:
  - family-names: Mouselimis
    given-names: Lampros
    email: mouselimislampros@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8024-1546
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 1.1.0
  url: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=IceSat2R
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/mlampros/IceSat2R
commit: 0daaf9d41988affa7a90f70730bc1e12122412f3
url: https://mlampros.github.io/IceSat2R/
date-released: '2026-06-12'
contact:
- family-names: Mouselimis
  given-names: Lampros
  email: mouselimislampros@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8024-1546
references:
- type: article
  title: OpenAltimetry - rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter
    data
  authors:
  - family-names: Khalsa
    given-names: S.J.S.
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    given-names: A.
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    given-names: V.
  journal: Earth Sci Inform
  year: '2020'
  url: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12145-020-00520-2.pdf
  doi: 10.1007/s12145-020-00520-2
- type: manual
  title: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L2A Global Geolocated Photon Data, Version 4, Boulder, Colorado
    USA
  authors:
  - family-names: Neumann
    given-names: T. A.
  - family-names: Brenner
    given-names: A.
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  journal: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
  year: '2021'
  doi: 10.5067/ATLAS/ATL03.004
- type: manual
  title: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Land Ice Height, Version 4, Boulder, Colorado USA
  authors:
  - family-names: Smith
    given-names: B.
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    given-names: H. A.
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    given-names: A.
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  journal: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
  year: '2021'
  doi: 10.5067/ATLAS/ATL06.004
- type: manual
  title: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Height, Version 4, Boulder, Colorado USA
  authors:
  - family-names: Kwok
    given-names: R.
  - family-names: Petty
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  - family-names: Cunningham
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    given-names: N.
  journal: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
  year: '2021'
  doi: 10.5067/ATLAS/ATL07.004
- type: manual
  title: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Land and Vegetation Height, Version 4, Boulder, Colorado
    USA
  authors:
  - family-names: Neuenschwander
    given-names: A. L.
  - family-names: Pitts
    given-names: K. L.
  - family-names: Jelley
    given-names: B. P.
  - family-names: Robbins
    given-names: J.
  - family-names: Klotz
    given-names: B.
  - family-names: Popescu
    given-names: S. C.
  - family-names: Nelson
    given-names: R. F.
  - family-names: Harding
    given-names: D.
  - family-names: Pederson
    given-names: D.
  - family-names: Sheridan
    given-names: R.
  journal: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
  year: '2021'
  doi: 10.5067/ATLAS/ATL08.004
- type: manual
  title: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard, Version 4, Boulder, Colorado USA
  authors:
  - family-names: Kwok
    given-names: R.
  - family-names: Petty
    given-names: A. A.
  - family-names: Cunningham
    given-names: G.
  - family-names: Markus
    given-names: T.
  - family-names: Hancock
    given-names: D.
  - family-names: Ivanoff
    given-names: A.
  - family-names: Wimert
    given-names: J.
  - family-names: Bagnardi
    given-names: M.
  - family-names: Kurtz
    given-names: N.
  journal: 'NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center'
  year: '2021'
  doi: 10.5067/ATLAS/ATL10.004
- type: manual
  title: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Ocean Surface Height, Version 4, Boulder, Colorado USA
  authors:
  - family-names: Morison
    given-names: J. H.
  - family-names: Hancock
    given-names: D.
  - family-names: Dickinson
    given-names: S.
  - family-names: Robbins
    given-names: J.
  - family-names: Roberts
    given-names: L.
  - family-names: Kwok
    given-names: R.
  - family-names: Palm
    given-names: S. P.
  - family-names: Smith
    given-names: B.
  - family-names: Jasinski
    given-names: M. F.
  journal: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
  year: '2021'
  doi: 10.5067/ATLAS/ATL12.004
- type: manual
  title: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Inland Water Surface Height, Version 3, Boulder, Colorado
    USA
  authors:
  - family-names: Jasinski
    given-names: M. F.
  - family-names: Stoll
    given-names: J. D.
  - family-names: Hancock
    given-names: D.
  - family-names: Robbins
    given-names: J.
  - family-names: Nattala
    given-names: J.
  - family-names: Morison
    given-names: J.
  - family-names: Jones
    given-names: B. M.
  - family-names: Ondrusek
    given-names: M. E.
  - family-names: Pavelsky
    given-names: T. M.
  - family-names: Parrish
    given-names: C.
  journal: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
  year: '2020'
  doi: 10.5067/ATLAS/ATL13.003