FOSS4G 2023 Prizren

This talk will describe the usage of Jason3 Altimeter data, which records the topographic height of the surface of the earth every ~10 days, to help measure the changes in water level of reservoirs across the globe. The use of NASA Common Metadata Repository (CMR) API to download and subset is described along with navigating the maze of various Jason3 Level2 Products depending on the usecase.

This talk introduces to this open dataset and various other altimetry missions, to allow for multimission monitoring of reservoirs of the world. It further uses Free and Open Source Software (CMR Specification, Xarray) to preprocess the data for use.