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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.
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ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 30, 2026
re-building of vignette outputs
Error(s) in re-building vignettes: --- re-building 'IceSat-2_Atlas_products_PDF.Rmd' using rmarkdown ! Package pdftex.def Error: File `bf969abaa94a578d7eac9f8dc23417d8893ba067.png' not found: using draft setting. Error: processing vignette 'IceSat- ...[truncated]... ing: `h' float specifier changed to `ht'. --- finished re-building 'IceSat-2_Virtual_File_System_Orbits_PDF.Rmd' SUMMARY: processing the following file failed: 'IceSat-2_Atlas_products_PDF.Rmd' Error: Vignette re-building failed. Execution halted