The ICESat-2 Validation of Elevations Reporting Tool

This code is currently in active development by the CIRES Coastal DEM Team. Primary authors are Mike MacFerrin (developing the IVERT code) and Matthew Love (developing the CUDEM modules underpinning various aspects of IVERT's functionality). Some modules may have broken dependencies or other shortfalls, bugs are being worked out as we migrate to a cloud computing environment. This code is not yet considered stable.

Primary modules for DEM validation are:

• validate_dem.py -- Code for performing ICESat-2 validations--with masking and vertical datum conversions--on a single DEM.
• validate_dem_collection.py -- Code for performing ICESat-2 validations on a group or directory of DEMs. A wrapper for looped execution and gathering summary results from looped calls of validate_dem.py

Both the scripts can be run independently as Python scripts with the "-h" or "--help" flags to see a complete list of command-line options.

Code to execute IVERT in a client-server setting in an AWS environment is currently underway. This README will be updated when that is completed.