Geodesy Visualizations

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Geodesy Basics | Altimetry | Lidar | GPS/GNSS | Gravity | SAR/InSAR | Other

Geodesy Basics

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Animation: Brief History of Geodesy

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Video: 9 Impacts of Geodesy

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Animation: What is Sea Level?

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Tutorial: Shape of Earth and Reference Ellipsoids

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Tutorial: NOAA's Global Positioning

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Animation: How Does GPS Work?

Geodetic Methods and Applications

Altimetry

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Presentation: Overview of Satellite Radar Altimetry

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Data animation: 27-year Sea Level Rise - TOPEX/JASON

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Data visualization site: CU Sea Level Explorer - allows comparison between altimetry and sea level gauge data

Lidar

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Animation: How Lidar Works in Earth and Environmental Sciences

GPS/GNSS

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Poster: What can GPS Tell Us About Earth?

Cryosphere

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Animation: Measuring Changing Glaciers with GPS

Earthquakes

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Animation: What can GPS tell us about future earthquakes?

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Animation: GPS and Earthquake Early Warning

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Animation: Tectonics & Earthquakes of the Himalaya (includes GPS data from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake)

Hydrosphere

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Animation: Measuring Drought: A GPS Network Offers A New Perspective

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Animation: How to Measure Atmospheric Water Vapor with GNSS

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Animation: How to Measure Soil Moisture Using GNSS

Tectonics/structural geology

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Data visualization site:GPS Velocity Viewer - interactive tool to explore GPS/GNSS-measured crustal movement

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Animation: Measuring Plate Tectonic Motion with GPS

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Animation: Basin & Range: GPS measures extension

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Animations on GPS and subduction zones:
Island Arc Setting
Ocean/Continent Setting
Variable Deformation across a Subduction Zone

Volcanoes

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Animation: Measuring Volcanic Deformation with Tilt and GPS

Other

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Animation: Unexpected Ways Scientists Use GPS

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Animation: How to Measure Ionospheric Composition with GNSS

Gravity

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Video: GRACE: Tracking Water from Space

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Data visualization site: CU GRACE Mascon Visualization Tool

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Data animations:
Antarctic Ice Mass Loss GRACE 2002-2020
Greenland Ice Mass Loss GRACE 2002-2021
GRACE polar ice mass loss

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Data animations:
GRACE Tracks Freshwater Movements
GRACE Measures Changes in Total Freshwater Storage 2003-2009

SAR/InSAR

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Poster: InSAR: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

Cryosphere

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Presentation: Using SAR to Measure Ice Velocity

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Data animations:
Greenland Ice Flow
Antarctic Ice Flow

Earthquakes

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Presentation: How does InSAR Work?

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Modeling tool: Visible Earthquakes - interactive web tool that allows you to model real earthquakes that were measured with InSAR data

Volcanoes

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Animation: Volcano Monitoring: Using InSAR to See Changes in Volcano Shape

Other resources

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Demonstrations: Hands-on demonstrations related to geodesy


The Teaching Geodesy site was developed and is being maintained in conjunction with EarthScope Consortium (previously called UNAVCO) with funding provided by grants from the National Science Foundation.