Dear Colleagues,
If you haven't done so already please consider filling out the short survey (less than 10 min) to help us document community interest in NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrument suite. The survey will close on April 4, 2021:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKbYJDivEvo1MaBWWYq-Bho5uUyea5MahyQn3tLHM76iGwaw/viewform
Thanks for your help,
Michael and the ATM Team
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Michael Studinger
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Code 615
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Phone: +1-301-614-6908
From: CRYOLIST <cryolist-bounces@lists.cryolist.org> On Behalf Of Studinger, Michael (GSFC-6150)
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 11:27 AM
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Subject: [CRYOLIST] requesting community feedback for NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrument suite
Dear Colleagues,
As many of you are aware, NASA's decade-long Operation IceBridge (OIB) effort is concluding. The Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrument suite and team was a key part of the OIB success story and a central component of the NASA Earth Science airborne instrument collection for decades.
The ATM instrument suite is not a facility instrument and unlike some other NASA airborne instruments does not have base funding. Our team is entirely funded through research projects, and operates on a full-cost accounting model. Whereas some scientists see value in ATM, there is also the perception that there is no future need for ATM and ATM capabilities can be replaced by commercial providers. Consequently, with neither base funding nor pending research grants, we have been told to "phase out" ATM and "mothball" the instrument by the end of this Fiscal Year. As of now the ATM team will cease to exist by year's end.
We have designed a community survey to gauge community interest, document support for NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper instrument suite and team and solicit user feedback and guidance regarding potential future work.
In addition to several lidar packages featuring high resolution and fidelity waveform capture, ATM operates camera, thermal and multispectral imagers, with combinations that have flown on a variety of airborne platforms ranging from Twin Otters to jet aircraft and has collected data for a variety of cryospheric science applications, geomorphology, coastline mapping, ocean wave mapping, etc.
A brochure documenting ATM's unique capabilities is available at: https://atm.wff.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/ATM_capabilities_2021_web.pdf
For more information about ATM go to: https://atm.wff.nasa.gov/
Please fill out this short survey (less than 10 min) to help us document community interest. The survey will close on March 31, 2021:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKbYJDivEvo1MaBWWYq-Bho5uUyea5MahyQn3tLHM76iGwaw/viewform
Thanks for your help,
Michael and the ATM Team
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Michael Studinger
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Code 615
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Phone: +1-301-614-6908
