Webinars and Tutorials

Webinars
Tutorials and Data "How-To" Recipes

Webinars

Watch and participate in our data discovery and data access webinars held every month at 2pm ET(UTC/GMT-5). Learn more about available NASA Earth science data, services and tools. As the monthly schedule varies, be sure to check the online catalog for a listing of upcoming events.

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2019 Webinar Videos

Date	Title and link to video	Speaker(s)
September 4, 2019	NetCDF Why and How: Creating Publication-Quality NetCDF Datasets	Michele Thornton and Jack McNelis, ORNL DAAC
August 22, 2019	Navigating NASA's LP DAAC to Find Answers to your Deepest Land Data Questions	Danielle Golon, LP DAAC
July 24, 2019	Gregory G. Leptoukh 4th Online Giovanni Workshop Webinar #4:Using Giovanni and R to Analyze Data in an Undergraduate Remote Sensing Class	Dr. Guido Cervone, Associate Professor of Geography, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, The Pennsylvania State University.
July 23, 2019	Explore, Access, and Customize ICESat-2 data at NASA's NSIDC DAAC	Steve Tanner and Amy Steiker, NSIDC DAAC
July 17, 2019	Gregory G. Leptoukh 4th Online Giovanni Workshop Webinar #3: NASA Giovanni in 2019, and the New Images Selected to the Giovanni Hall of Fame	Dr. James Acker, GES DISC
July 10, 2017	Gregory G. Leptoukh 4th Online Giovanni Workshop Webinar #2: Giovanni within NASA's Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) Program	Sean McCartney and Dr. Amita Mehta, ARSET Program
June 26, 2019	Gregory G. Leptoukh 4th Online Giovanni Workshop 2019 Webinar #1: NASA Giovanni Applications to Earth Science Research: From Outcomes to Methods	Dr. Mark Jury, Professor of Meteorology, Physics Department, The University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez (UPRM)
May 29, 2019	Easy Sentinel-1 Radiometric Terrain Corrected (RTC) Products with ASF's Beta Toolbox Q & A Session Only: Encore Presentation (6/12/19)	Andrew Johnston and Toni Abbey, ASF DAAC
May 8, 2019	Discover NASA ISS Lightning and Associated Validation Data from GOES-R	Dr. Geoffrey Stano, GHRC DAAC
April 30, 2019	Modern Website Engineering for STA3CD: Subsetting Tools for Advanced Analysis of Airborne Chemistry Data	Dr. Makhan Virdi, and Dr. Damian Gessler, ASDC DAAC
March 28, 2019	ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next-Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration from the International Space Station	Dr. Joshua Fisher, ECOSTRESS Science Lead, NASA JPL; Cole Krehbiel, LP DAAC Download Presentation
March 13, 2019	Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R	Dr. Alison Boyer, Dr. Jessica Welch, ORNL DAAC
February 6, 2019	Discover NASA Ocean Color Data, Services and Tools	Robert Lossing, OB.DAAC

View all archived webinar videos on YouTube

Tutorials and Data "How-To" Recipes

Information about available NASA EOSDIS data products, various types of data discovery, data access, and data tool demonstrations or tutorials.

Video Tutorials
Data "How-To" Recipes from NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) for obtaining data and viewing data.
Data Recipes

For assistance with any of these tutorials, please contact Earthdata Support and we will forward you to the appropriate DAAC user services office.

2018 Webinars

Date	Title and link to video	Speaker(s)
November 28, 2018	Making SAR Data Accessible- New Sensors, Tools and Services	Dr. Franz Meyer, ASF DAAC
November 14, 2018	Mapping Global Urbanization from Landsat Data and High- Resolution Reference Data	Dr. Eric Brown De Colstoun, NASA Goddard; Sri Vinay, SEDAC
October 24, 2018	Goodbye FTP, New Ways to Access NASA's Physical Oceanography Data at PO.DAAC	Jessica Hausman and Dr. Lewis McGibbney, PO.DAAC
September 26, 2018	Exploring Earth’s Land Surface with Suomi-NPP NASA VIIRS Land Data	Danielle Golon and Cole Krehbiel, LP DAAC
August 16, 2018	NASA ORNL DAAC MODIS and VIIRS Data Tools and Services at your Fingertips	Dr. Rupesh Shrestha and Jack McNelis, ORNL DAAC
August 8, 2018	Don't Pass the Salt! NASA's Salinity Mission Continues with SMAP	Dr. Thomas Meissner, REMSS; Dr. Jorge Vazquez and Dr. Vardis Tsontos, PO.DAAC
July 25, 2018	Operation IceBridge: Come Discover a Decade of Polar Data	Steve Tanner, NSIDC DAAC
June 28, 2018	Discover and Access Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) from the USGS Archive	Dr. Chris Barnes, USGS
May 23, 2018	Discover NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)	Diane Davies, NASA LANCE
March 28, 2018	Learn How to Subset Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) Data with the GES DISC Level 2 Data Subsetter	Dr. James Acker, GES DISC
March 7, 2018	Striking New Spatial Bounds Using ISS LIS Data	Leigh Sinclair, GHRC DAAC; Dr. Michael Peterson, ESSIC CICS-MD, University of Maryland (UMD).
February 28, 2018	NASA GLOBE Clouds: Matching Cloud Observations from Citizen Scientists with NASA/NOAA Satellite Data	Marilé Colón Robles, Cayley Cruickshank-DeFontes, Dr. Brant Dodson, and Tina Rogerson, NASA GLOBE Clouds Program,
January 30, 2018	NASA PO.DAAC State Of The Ocean: I spy with my little eye something...	Eric Tauer, Cathy To, Flynn Platt, Ed Armstrong, PO.DAAC
January 24, 2018	Bio-Optical in situ Data Discovery and Access with SeaBASS	Joel Scott, OB.DAAC

2016 Webinars

Date	Title and link to video	Speaker(s)
November 28, 2016	Encore Presentation: Remote Sensing Derived Environmental Indicators for Decision Making	Dr. Alex deSherbinin, SEDAC
November 21,2016	Remote Sensing Derived Environmental Indicators for Decision Making	Dr. Alex deSherbinin, SEDAC
October 26, 2016	Improve your Airborne Data Discovery and Access with Toolsets for Airborne Data (TAD)	Amanda Early and Aubrey Beach, ASDC
September 28, 2016	Discover, Access, and Subset NASA Physical Oceanography Data	Mike Gangl and Aaron Plave, PO.DAAC
August 29, 2016	Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Data Management Best Practices	Suresh Vannan, Dr. Alison Boyer, Dr. Yaxing Wei, NASA ORNL DAAC
August 24, 2016	TRMM and GPM Precipitation Products and Services at NASA's GES DISC	Dr. James Acker, NASA GES DISC
July 28,2016	Explore the Entire Earth, Every Day, with Satellite Imagery from NASA Worldview	Ryan Boller, ESDIS, NASA Goddard and Taylor Gunnoe, SSAI, NASA Goddard
June 29, 2016	NASA Space Geodesy Data for Precise Orbit Determination of Altimeter Satellites	Dr. Frank Lemoine, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard
June 15, 2016	SeaDAS: Enabling the Study of our Planet from Space	Daniel Knowles, OB.DAAC
May 18, 2016	Satellite Techno-Archeology: Old Data Answers New Questions	David Gallaher, NSIDC DAAC
May 3, 2016	A View from NASA Terra's Zoom Lens: All about the ASTER Sensor	Lindsey Harriman and Danielle Golon, LP DAAC
April 28, 2016	NASA Aquarius Data Training Session #4 (Virtual Poster Session) *Share “salinity story” during an online poster session
April 21, 2016	NASA Aquarius Data Training Session #3 * Use Aquarius Level-3 data visualization tools * Tips on communicating your “salinity story" effectively	Annette deCharon (University of Maine) and Dr. Vardis Tsontos, PO.DAAC)
April 14, 2016	NASA Aquarius Data Training Session #2 * Discover Aquarius data from the PO.DAAC * Access Aquarius data using a variety of tools	Annette deCharon (University of Maine), Dr. Vardis Tsontos ( PO.DAAC), and Dr. Leslie Smith (Your Ocean Consulting, Ltd.)
April 7, 2016	NASA Aquarius Data Training Session #1 * Learn the basics of Aquarius/SAC-D from Dr. Tony Lee (JPL) * Become familiar with Aquarius salinity data resources * Understand the structure of Aquarius data	Dr. Tony Lee (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Annette deCharon (University of Maine), and Dr. Vardis Tsontos ( PO.DAAC)
March 23, 2016	Connecting to NASA Renewable Energy Data Resources with GIS	Jason Barnett, ASDC
March 15, 2016	Access NASA Land Processes Data with Web Based Services	Jason Werpy, LP DAAC
February 24, 2016	Explore, Discover, and Use Field Campaign and Related Data	Manil Maskey, GHRC DAAC
February 11, 2016	Discover Earth Science Data with NASA Earthdata Search	Patrick Quinn, EOSDIS EED

2015 Webinars

Date	Title and link to video	Speaker(s)
November 19, 2015	Share Data with OPeNDAP Hyrax: New Features and Improvements	James Gallagher, OPeNDAP
November 18, 2015	Rapid Assessment of Hazard Impacts - NASA SEDAC Hazard Mapper	Dr. Greg Yetman, SEDAC/CIESIN
November 12, 2015	Metadata Recommendations, Dialects, Evaluation & Improvement	Dr. Ted Habermann, The HDF Group
November 3, 2015	Discover and Use NASA Physical Oceanography Data	Dr. Michelle Gierach and Jessica Hausman, PO.DAAC
October 29, 2015	Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) Enhancements for GIS	Matthew Tisdale and Brian Tisdale, ASDC
September 29, 2015	Simplified Access to NASA Earth Science Data through OPeNDAP	Dr.Yaxing Wei (ORNL DAAC), Aaron Friesz (LP DAAC), and Matthew Tisdale (ASDC)
September 23, 2015	Discover Simplified SAR Solutions at NASA's ASF DAAC	Rebecca Miller, ASF DAAC
July 22, 2015	Accessing Real-Time GNSS Data and Derived Products from NASA's CDDIS	Carey Noll, Dr. Patrick Michael and Lori Tyahla, CDDIS
May 14, 2015	NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission Data Products	Dr. Barry Weiss, Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Systems Architect, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
May 6, 2015	Redesigning Giovanni: More Data, More Plots, Faster Results	Dr. James Acker, GES DISC
April 29, 2015	Improving Accessibility and Use of NASA Earth Science Data	Matthew Tisdale and Brian Tisdale, ASDC
April 16, 2015	Discovering and Differentiating Data with the NSIDC Search	Amanda Leon, NSIDC DAAC
February 19, 2015	Implementing the ISO 19115 model: NASA Earth Science Data	Dr. Barry Weiss, Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Systems Architect, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
January 29, 2015	Discover NASA's Gridded Population of the World	Dr. Erin Doxsey-Whitfield, Kytt MacManus, SEDAC

2014 Webinars

Date	Title and link to video	Speaker(s)
December 3, 2014	Diving into the NASA Data Pools with DAAC2Disk	Kelly Lemig, LP DAAC
November 19, 2014	Data Albums: An Event Driven Data Discovery and Access Tool	Ken Keiser and Ajinkya Kulkarni, GHRC DAAC
November 10, 12-14, 2014	2nd Gregory G. Leptoukh Online Giovanni Workshop	Hosted by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)
October 8, 2014	Know your Landsat: Understanding and Accessing Landsat Data	Laura Rocchio and Jeannie Allen, NASA; Linda Jonescheit Owen, USGS
September 25, 2014	Accessing Daymet Data Through Web-Based Tools and Services	Dr. Michele Thornton, Yaxing Wei and Ranjeet Devarakonda, ORNL DAAC
September 24, 2014	Discover NASA Near Real-Time Earth Science Data using LANCE	Diane Davies, LANCE
July 23, 2014	Discover New Data Products at NASA's LP DAAC	Kari Beckendorf, LP DAAC
June 11, 2014	Fellowship Opportunities with the NASA Postdoctoral Program	Dr. Larry Voorhees, NASA Postdoctoral Program
May 28, 2014	Discover NASA's Archive for Space Geodesy Data: CDDIS	Carey Noll and Lori Tyahla, CDDIS
April 23, 2014	Discover and Access Atmospheric Data from NASA's ASDC	Michelle Cook and Mary Jane Saddington, ASDC
March 26, 2014	A Beginner's Tour: NASA EOSDIS Data Discovery and Access	Jennifer Brennan, EOSDIS Communications, NASA GSFC
February 26, 2014	Real-Life Uses of Radar Data for Real-Life Scientists	Michelle Harbin, ASF DAAC
January 22, 2014	Discover Earth Science Data and Services using NASA GCMD	Tyler Stevens, GCMD

2013 Webinars

Date	Title and link to video	Speaker(s)
November 20, 2013	Explore NASA Socioeconomic Data using Web Mapping Services	Dr. Alex de Sherbinin and Sri Vinay, SEDAC
September 25, 2013	Operation IceBridge Portal - Discover a Wealth of Polar Data (Part 1) Operation IceBridge Portal - Discover a Wealth of Polar Data (Part 2)	Steve Tanner, NSIDC DAAC
September 11, 2013	Environmental Data Management Best Practices: Part 2 Geospatial Data	Suresh K.S. Vannan and Yaxing Wei, ORNL DAAC
September 10, 2013	Environmental Data Management Best Practices: Part 1 Tabular Data	Suresh K.S. Vannan and Dr. Robert Cook, ORNL DAAC
August 28, 2013	How To Access NASA ASTER and MODIS Data with Earth Explorer Tool	Kelly Lemig, LP DAAC
July 24, 2013	MODIS Global Subsetting and Visualization Tool	Tammy Walker Beatty and Suresh K.S. Vannan, ORNL DAAC
June 26, 2013	Giovanni - Access and Visualize Earth Science Data Online	Dr. James Acker, GES DISC
May 30, 2013	GHRSST Data Discovery and Access Tools	Dr. Ed Armstrong, Dr. Michelle Gierach, Dr. Jorge Vasquez and Rosanna Sumagaysay-Aouda, PO.DAAC
May 29, 2013	GHRSST Sea Surface Temperature Data Discovery and Access	Dr. Ed Armstrong, Dr. Michelle Gierach, Dr. Jorge Vasquez and Rosanna Sumagaysay-Aouda, PO.DAAC

Last Updated: Sep 9, 2019 at 8:06 AM EDT

Date	Title and link to video	Speaker(s)
October 19, 2017	Using NASA's AppEEARS to Slice and Dice Big Earth Data	Aaron Friesz, LP DAAC
August 30, 2017	NetCD-what? An Ecologist’s Guide to Working with Daymet and other NetCDF-formatted Data	Dr. Alison Boyer, Michele Thornton, ORNL DAAC
July 19, 2017	GNSS Radio Occultation Science and Applications	Dr. Jan Weiss, CDAAC, UCAR (Designated CDDIS Webinar)
June 28, 2017	Access and Visualize Model Data at NASA's GES DISC	Dana Ostrenga, GES DISC
May 31, 2017	Discover and Access NASA's Earth Science Data with Earthdata Search	Mark Reese, Element 84, Inc.
April 27, 2017	R You Ready to Python? An Introduction to Working with Land Remote Sensing Data in R and Python	Aaron Friesz and Cole Krehbiel, LP DAAC
April 5, 2017	Create Difference Maps for NASA Data with Panoply, Giovanni and Excel	Dr. James Acker, GES DISC
March 22, 2017	Discover NASA's Ocean Color Data and Services at NASA's OB.DAAC	Robert Lossing, OB.DAAC
February 22, 2017	Access Sentinel-1 SAR Data with NASA ASF DAAC's Vertex!	William Hauer, ASF DAAC
February 8, 2017	Atmospheric Event-based Research using GHRC Tools and Services	Amanda Weigel, GHRC DAAC
February 1, 2017	A New Era for Gridded Passive Microwave Data at NASA's NSIDC DAAC	Mary Jo Brodzik, NSIDC DAAC