Geodesy Visualizations
Geodesy Basics
Animation: Brief History of Geodesy
Video: 9 Impacts of Geodesy
Animation: What is Sea Level?
Tutorial: Shape of Earth and Reference Ellipsoids
Tutorial: NOAA's Global Positioning
Geodetic Methods and Applications
Altimetry
Presentation: Overview of Satellite Radar Altimetry
Data animation: 27-year Sea Level Rise - TOPEX/JASON
Data visualization site: CU Sea Level Explorer - allows comparison between altimetry and sea level gauge data
Lidar
Animation: How Lidar Works in Earth and Environmental Sciences
GPS/GNSS
Animation: How Does GPS Work?
Poster: What can GPS Tell Us About Earth?
Cryosphere
Animation: Measuring Changing Glaciers with GPS
Earthquakes
Animation: What can GPS tell us about future earthquakes?
Animation: Using GPS to Enhance the Earthquake Early Warning System
Animation: Tectonics & Earthquakes of the Himalaya (includes GPS data from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake)
Hydrosphere
Animation: Measuring Drought: A GPS Network Offers A New Perspective
Animation: How to Measure Atmospheric Water Vapor with GNSS
Animation: How to Measure Soil Moisture Using GNSS
Tectonics/structural geology
Data visualization site: GPS Velocity Viewer - interactive tool to explore GPS/GNSS-measured crustal movement
Animation: Measuring Plate Tectonic Motion with GPS
Animation: Basin & Range: GPS measures extension
Animations on GPS and subduction zones:
Island Arc Setting
Ocean/Continent Setting
Variable Deformation across a Subduction Zone
Volcanoes
Animation: Measuring Volcanic Deformation with Tilt and GPS
Other
Animation: Unexpected Ways Scientists Use GPS
Animation: How to Measure Ionospheric Composition with GNSS
Gravity
Video: GRACE: Tracking Water from Space
Data visualization site: CU GRACE Mascon Visualization Tool
Data animations:
Antarctic Ice Mass Loss GRACE
Greenland Ice Mass Loss GRACE
GRACE polar ice mass loss
Data animations:
GRACE Tracks Freshwater Movements
GRACE Measures Changes in Total Freshwater Storage 2003-2009
SAR/InSAR
Poster: InSAR: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
Cryosphere
Presentation: Using SAR to Measure Ice Velocity
Data animations:
Greenland Ice Flow
Antarctic Ice Flow
Earthquakes
Presentation: How does InSAR Work?
Volcanoes
Animation: Volcano Monitoring: Using InSAR to See Changes in Volcano Shape
Structure from Motion (SfM)
Presentation: OpenTopography Introduction to SfM
Other resources
Demonstrations: Hands-on demonstrations related to geodesy
