For the past nine years, Indiana University and the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas have worked with NASA’s Operation IceBridge to collect data about polar ice caps. IU provides IT support for the missions and assists in processing the enormous amounts of data the mission generates, helping improve the models of the physical interactions of glaciers, sea ice, and ice sheets for scientists to study. IU has created on-plane storage and computational systems used by scientists during flights to monitor activities. What once took researchers 18+ hours to view first glance data products now takes less than 10 seconds thus allowing researchers on those flights to make adjustments in real time.
For the past nine years, Indiana University and the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas have worked with NASA’s Operation IceBridge to collect data about polar ice caps. IU provides IT support for the missions and assists in processing the enormous amounts of data the mission generates, helping improve the models of the physical interactions of glaciers, sea ice, and ice sheets for scientists to study. IU has created on-plane storage and computational systems used by scientists during flights to monitor activities. What once took researchers 18+ hours to view first glance data products now takes less than 10 seconds thus allowing researchers on those flights to make adjustments in real time.