Webinars and Tutorials
Tutorials and Data "How-To" Recipes
Data recipes are tutorials that include step-by-step instructions to help users learn how to discover, access, subset, visualize and use Earth science data, information, tools and services. These tutorials cover many different data products across the Earth science disciplines and different data discovery and data access tools, including programming languages and related software.
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The NASA Earthdata data discovery and data access webinars span the Earth science disciplines and are designed to help users learn about NASA EOSDIS data, services and tools and show users how to work with these data resources. As the monthly webinar schedule varies, be sure to check the online catalog for a listing of upcoming events.
How to Cloud for Earth Scientists
Search the webinars by clicking in the search box below right and entering in a key word, such as a DAAC ("ASDC", "NSIDC", etc), an instrument/mission ("GRACE", "MODIS", etc) or science term ("surface mass", "snow cover", etc). The results will narrow down the table entries applicable to the keyword entered.
| SortAndKeyword (HIDDEN) | Date | Title and link to video | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 017, cloud computing, Earthdata Pub, Field Campaign Explorer, Lightning Dashboard, Bulk Downloader, data, services, tools | May 4, 2022 | Shifting the Paradigm: Discover, Access, and Process Data With Cloud-Based Services |
Dr. Geoffrey Stano, GHRC DAAC |
| 018, atmosphere, MODIS, VIIRS, View Data, Find Data, data, services, tools | April 27, 2022 | Learn how to View and Download Data from NASA's LAADS DAAC | Tassia Owen, Otmar Olsina, and Greg Ederer, LAADS DAAC |
| 019, POWER, renewable energy, solar power, sustainability, data, services, tools, GIS | March 23, 2022 |
Getting to Know the NASA Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) Project | Dr. Paul Stackhouse, LaRC; Madison Broddle and Bradley Macpherson, ASDC |
| 020, SAR, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, search, data, services, tools | February 28, 2022 | SAR Data in Python—Get to Know the ASF Search Module | Gregory Short, ASF DAAC |
| 021, SeaHawk, HawkEye, CubeSat, ocean color, data, services, tools | January 26, 2022 | Big Things Come in Very Small Packages: SeaHawk—A New Way of Looking at the Ocean | Sean Bailey, OB.DAAC; Panelists: Alicia Scott, OB.DAAC and Dr. Sara Rivero-Calle, SeaHawk/HawkEye mission, University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography |
| 022, Environmental Justice, urban heat, social vulnerability, Jupyter Notebooks, GIS, climate, hazards, data, services, tools | December 8, 2021 |
Using Geospatial Data to Evaluate Climate Hazards and Inform Environmental Justice | Dr. Carolynn Hultquist and Dr. Cascade Tuholske, SEDAC at CIESIN |
| 023, GIS, ArcGIS, Jupyter Notebooks, data, services, tools | October 27, 2021 | Explore GIS Efforts that Enable Earth Science at NASA's GES DISC | Allison Alcott, GES DISC
Panelist: Dr. Binita KC, GES DISC |
| 024, MODIS, VIIRS, atmosphere, data, services, tools | September 22, 2021 | Learn How to Access and Acquire NASA Level-1 MODIS and VIIRS Data and Atmosphere Products from LAADS DAAC | Dr. Bhaskar Ramachandran and Jose Galdamez, LAADS DAAC |
| 025, Daymet, Jupyter Notebooks, weather, climate, data, services, tools | August 31, 2021 | Toward Analysis Ready Data—Programmatically Discover, Access, and Subset Daymet V4 Data with Python and ArcGIS | Michele Thornton, ORNL DAAC, Panelists: Dr. Rupesh Shrestha, ORNL DAAC, and Dr. Lain Graham, Esri, ArcDAAC Collaborative |
| 026, cloud migration, AWS, physical oceanography, data, services, tools, Earthdata Cloud | August 17, 2021 | Surfing Ocean Data in the Cloud: The Beginners' Guide to PO.DAAC Data in the Earthdata Cloud | John Klose, Sandra Cosic and Suresh Vanaan, PO.DAAC |
| 027, InSAR, SAR, Vertex, On-Demand, data, services, tools | July 28, 2021 | Accelerate your Science with On-Demand InSAR Processing from ASF DAAC | Dr. Joseph Kennedy, ASF DAAC |
| 028, SOOT, airborne data, services, tools | June 30, 2021 | Powered Up Data—Getting to Know the Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) Power User Interface |
Jennifer Tindell and Simon Handley, ASDC DAAC |
| 029, NASA Worldview, HLS, GIBS, data, services, tools | May 18, 2021 | NASA Worldview—Explore the Earth from Past to Present with Global Satellite Observations |
Jason Kent and Minnie Wong, NASA Worldview project |
| 030, NSIDC DAAC, icepyx, IceFlow, cryosphere, data, services, tools, Python, Jupyter Notebook | April 28, 2021 | IceFlow and icepyx: Python tools for Harmonizing Laser Altimetry Datasets in an Open Science Framework | Amy Steiker, Nic Kotlinski, NSIDC DAAC; Dr. Jessica Scheick, University of New Hampshire Earth Systems Research Center |
| 031, PO.DAAC, Cloud, Saildrone, Sentinel-6, data, services, tools, Python | March 24, 2021 | The PO.DAAC: An Open Ocean of Remote Sensing and In Situ Data for Science in the Cloud | Ed Armstrong, Dr. Jorge Vazquez, PO.DAAC; Jessica Hausman, NASA HQ, Physical Oceanography Program |
| 032, ASF, Vertex, Sentinel-1, RTC, On-Demand, data, services, tools | February 24, 2021 | Sentinel-1 On-Demand RTC Processing: Generating Analysis-Ready SAR Data with ASF Vertex | Heidi Kristenson, ASF DAAC |
| 033, Earthdata Search, data, services, tools | February 3, 2021 | Learn How to Discover, Access, and Customize Multiple Datasets (and Data Types) Using Earthdata Search | Mark Reese, Element 84 Inc. |
| 034, Earthdata Forum, ASDC, GES DISC, data, services, tools | November 18, 2020 | NASA's Earthdata Forum: Connect to a Growing Body of Expertise | Crystal Gummo, ASDC DAAC |
| 035, SEDAC, COVID-19, population, mapping, data, services, tools | October 28, 2020 |
SEDAC’s Global COVID-19 Viewer, A User-Friendly Tool for Assessing Trends in Coronavirus Spread |
Dr. Alex de Sherbinin, Joe Schumacher, SEDAC |
| 036, GES DISC, OMI, OMPS, aerosols, dust, subsetting, Giovanni, data, services, tools | September 23, 2020 | A Clearer View of the Haze – Using NASA GES DISC Data Tools to Examine the June 2020 Sahara Dust Event over Barbados | Dr. James Acker, GES DISC |
| 037, ASF DAAC, SAR, GIS, data, services, tools | August 6, 2020 | Encore Presentation: Part 2, Applications of SAR Data in GIS Environments | Heidi Kristenson, ASF DAAC |
| 038, ASF DAAC, SAR, data, radar, services, tools | August 4, 2020 | Encore Presentation: Part 1, Introduction to SAR Data | Heidi Kristenson, ASF DAAC |
| 039, GHRC DAAC, cloud evolution, data, services, tools, Field Campaign Explorer | July 23, 2020 | Improving the DAAC User Experience with Cloud-based Capabilities |
Dr. Geoffrey Stano, GHRC DAAC Q & A Panelist: Will Ellett, UAH ITSC |
| 040, ASF DAAC, SAR, GIS, data, services, tools | July 9, 2020 | Special Two-Part SAR Webinar: Part 2- Applications of SAR Data in GIS Environments |
Heidi Kristenson, ASF DAAC |
| 041, ASF DAAC, SAR, data, radar, services, tools | July 7, 2020 | Special Two-Part SAR Webinar: Part 1- Introduction to SAR Data |
Heidi Kristenson, ASF DAAC |
| 042, LPDAAC, land processes, GEDI, data, services, tools | June 24, 2020 | Find and Use GEDI, You Will—Getting Started with Global Ecosystems Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar Data | Dr. Michelle Hofton, GEDI Science Team, Cole Krehbiel, LP DAAC |
| 043, NSIDC, snow, cryospheric science, data, services, tools | May 6, 2020 | Let It Snow! Accessing and Analyzing Snow Data at the NSIDC DAAC | Dr. Walter Meier and Amy Steiker, NSIDC DAAC |
| 044, ASDC, atmospheric science, data, services, wildfires, tools | March 25, 2020 | Data-Driven Storytelling: Using Atmospheric Data to Share Your Science | Dr. Danielle Groenen, ASDC DAAC |
| 045, PO.DAAC, cloud computing, SST, tools, data, services, Cumulus, SWOT | March 18, 2020 | Making Waves: PO.DAAC’s Journey from Servers to a Cloud Environment | Dr. Catalina Oaida and Mike Gangl, PO.DAAC |
| 046, OB.DAAC, ocean color, PACE, tools, data, services | February 26, 2020 |
The History and Evolution of Satellite Remote Sensing Ocean Color Science |
Robert Lossing, OB.DAAC |
| 047, LANCE, NRT, FIRMS, Worldview, tools, visualize, data | February 14, 2020 | Discover NASA's Near Real-Time Data using LANCE | Karen Michael and Diane Davies, LANCE |
| 048, POPGRID, gridded population, GPW, HBASE, HRSL, tools, visualize, data, services | December 3, 2019 | Gridded Population and Settlement Data: An Introduction to the POPGRID Data Collaborative | Dr. Alex de Sherbinin and Kytt MacManus, SEDAC |
| 049, SAR, Vertex, tools, visualize, data, services, tools, Python | November 20, 2019 | Discover and Access SAR Data with ASF's Vertex: Better, Stronger, Faster | Olena Ellis and Gregory Short, ASF DAAC |
| 050, software, tools, visualize, standardize, archive, gridded geospatial data, netCDF, | September 4, 2019 | NetCDF Why and How: Creating Publication-Quality NetCDF Datasets | Michele Thornton and Jack McNelis, ORNL DAAC |
| 051, land processes data, services, tools, ACSI, survey, customer satisfaction, tutorials, videos, e-learning, file format | August 22, 2019 | Navigating NASA's LP DAAC to Find Answers to your Deepest Land Data Questions | Danielle Golon, LP DAAC |
| 052, GES DISC, ARSET, applied science, R, statistical analysis | 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. |
| 053, advanced discovery, visualization, OpenAltimetry, filter, Python, land ice, sea ice, water, vegetation, laser altimeter, subsetting, reformatting, analysis, tools | July 23, 2019 | Explore, Access, and Customize ICESat-2 data at NASA's NSIDC DAAC | Steve Tanner and Amy Steiker, NSIDC DAAC |
| 054, GES DISC, ARSET, applied science, R, statistical analysis | 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 |
| 055, GES DISC, ARSET, applied science, R, statistical analysis | July 10, 2019 | 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 |
| 056, GES DISC, ARSET, applied science, R, statistical analysis | 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) |
| 057, advanced products toolbox, SAR, easy Docker, single command processing, ancillary files, layover shadow mask, inclination maps, interferometry, subsetting, change detection, time series. | May 29, 2019 |
Easy Sentinel-1 Radiometrically Terrain-Correct (RTC) Products with ASF's Beta Toolbox Q&A Session Only: Encore Presentation (6/12/19) |
Andrew Johnston and Toni Abbey, ASF DAAC |
| 058, lightning activity, LIS, flashes, Nepal, Bangladesh, post launch testing, PLT | May 8, 2019 | Discover NASA ISS Lightning and Associated Validation Data from GOES-R |
Dr. Geoffrey Stano, GHRC DAAC |
| 059, how, why, site architecture, technology choice, best practice, airborne observations, ground-based perspectives, principles, technologies, engineering | April 30, 2019 | Dr. Makhan Virdi, and Dr. Damian Gessler, ASDC DAAC |
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| 060, water, temperature, ecosystem, spaceborne, thermal, radiometer, experiment, land surface temperature, emissivity, canopy transpiration, soil evaporation, interception, water use efficiency, evaporative stress index, diurnal vegetation, water stress, carbon cycle, agriculture, drought detection, Python script | 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 |
| 061, R GIS, spatial extent, overlay layers, reclassification, open source, geology, biology, environmental science, GIS | March 13, 2019 | Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R | Dr. Alison Boyer, Dr. Jessica Welch, ORNL DAAC |
| 062, ocean color, sea surface temperature, SST, salinity, SSS, SeaBASS, in situ, oceanographic, atmospheric data, marine surveys, scientific buoys, autonomous robotic gliders, SeaDAS OBPG, biology | February 6, 2019 | Discover NASA Ocean Color Data, Services and Tools | Robert Lossing, OB.DAAC |
| 063, sensor technology, processing capability, data availability, Sentinel-1, geoscience discipline, cloud | November 28, 2018 | Making SAR Data Accessible—New Sensors, Tools and Services | Dr. Franz Meyer, ASF DAAC |
| 064, urbanization, socioeconomics, human geography, GMIS, population change, mapping, monitoring, high resolution, GLS, man-made impervious surface, HBASE, human built-up settlement extent, cover | November 14, 2018 | Mapping Global Urbanization from Landsat Data and High-Resolution Reference Data | Dr. Eric Brown De Colstoun, NASA Goddard; Sri Vinay, SEDAC |
| 065, browsing, retrieving, data discovery, data access, command line, scripted interaction, Drive, https | 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 |
| 066, land data products, surface reflectance, vegetation index, fires, tools, application for extracting exploring analysis ready samples, AppEEARS, Jupyter Notebook, Python, image processing | September 26, 2018 | Land Ho! Exploring Earth’s Land Surface with Suomi NPP NASA VIIRS Land Data | Danielle Golon and Cole Krehbiel, LP DAAC |
| 067, user friendly tools, discover, subset, access, visualize, data quality, criteria, R, Python, Jupyter notebooks | August 16, 2018 | NASA ORNL DAAC MODIS and VIIRS Data Tools and Services at your Fingertips | Dr. Rupesh Shrestha and Jack McNelis, ORNL DAAC |
| 068, sea surface salinity, SSS, Aquarius, dissolved salt, seawater, ocean surface, water cycle, ocean circulation, climate, SAC-D, soil moisture, L-band, physical oceanography data | 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 |
| 069, airborne mission, Arctic, Antarctic, ICESat, polar regions, Greenland, glaciers, sea ice | July 25, 2018 | Operation IceBridge: Come Discover a Decade of Polar Data | Steve Tanner, NSIDC DAAC |
| 070, land surface, land management, natural resources, environment | June 28, 2018 | Discover and Access Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) from the USGS Archive | Dr. Chris Barnes, USGS |
| 071, VIIRS, MODIS, fires, natural resource management, HDF, web map service, WMS, time, WMS-T, downloads | May 23, 2018 | Discover NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) | Diane Davies, NASA LANCE |
| 072, subsetter, level 2, SO2, swath data, latitude, longitude, cropped boxes, index variables, subset dimensions, dimensional subsetting, temporal subsetting, file structure, metadata, data types, attributes, ozone concentration, volcanic activity, wildfire emissions | 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 |
| 073, International Space Station, Lightning Imaging Sensor, Python, GIS, hurricane, amount, rate, energy, lightning flashes, GHRC, demonstration | 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). |
| 074, citizen science, global learning, observations, benefit, environment, S'COOL, students, cloud, observations, trained, untrained, educators, programmers, GLOBE Observer app, GOES, Terra, Aqua, CALIPSO, neural networks | 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, |
| 075, SOTO, physical oceanography data, toolkit, visualization, data comparison, capability, interactive, climate, phenomenon, ocean surface winds, topography, SSS, sea surface salinity, SST, temperature, ocean currents, circulation, soil moisture, surface precipitation, sea ice | 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 |
| 076, ocean color, SeaWiFS, archive, storage, ground truth, validation, atmosphere, chlorophyll-a, absorption, backscatter, attenuation coefficients, aerosol optical thickness, MODIS, Aqua, Terra, MERIS, Suomi NPP, VIIRS | January 24, 2018 |
Bio-Optical in-situ Data Discovery and Access with SeaBASS | Joel Scott, OB.DAAC |
| 077, application, extracting, exploring, analysis, ready, samples, data extraction, bands, layers, time ranges, point locations, geospatial datasets | October 19, 2017 | Using NASA's AppEEARS to Slice and Dice Big Earth Data | Aaron Friesz, LP DAAC |
| 078, open, read, write, plot data, Daymet, meteorological variables, R, NCO, Operators, GDAL, Python, geospatial data abstraction library, techniques | 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 |
| 079, numerical weather prediction, forecasting cyclone genesis, space weather, GNSS, bending angle, refractivity profiles, low-Earth orbit, LEO, temperature, pressure, humidity, COSMIC-1, KOMPSAT-5, MetOp | July 19, 2017 | GNSS Radio Occultation Science and Applications | Dr. Jan Weiss, CDAAC, UCAR (Designated CDDIS Webinar) |
| 080, LDAS, land data assimilation system, atmosphere, land, ocean, MERRA-2, hourly, daily, monthly, subsetter, regridder, OPeNDAP, GrADS data server, MATLAB, R, IDV | June 28, 2017 | Access and Visualize Model Data at NASA's GES DISC | Dana Ostrenga, GES DISC |
| 081, access, science disciplines, data search, inventory, browse images, filtering, subsetting | May 31, 2017 | Discover and Access NASA's Earth Science Data with Earthdata Search | Mark Reese, Element 84, Inc. |
| 082, ASTER, VIIRS, surface reflectance, Suomi NPP, MODIS, georeference data, GeoTIFF, format, NDVI, three-band GGB composite | 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 |
| 083, monitor change, examine anomalies, quasi climatology, baseline averaging, NetCDF, CSV, map array, lat-lon data value triads | April 5, 2017 | Create Difference Maps for NASA Data with Panoply, Giovanni and Excel | Dr. James Acker, GES DISC |
| 084, ocean color, sea surface temperature, SST, salinity, SSS, SeaBASS, in situ, oceanographic, atmospheric, marine survey, scientific buoy, autonomous robotic gliders, SeaDAS | March 22, 2017 | Discover NASA's Ocean Color Data and Services at NASA's OB.DAAC | Robert Lossing, OB.DAAC |
| 085, Copernicus, in-depth filtering, metadata, data download, browser, all-weather, day-night, high-resolution, landscape-level data, mapping, detecting wetlands, oil spills, landslides, deformation, sea ice | February 22, 2017 | Access Sentinel-1 SAR Data with NASA ASF DAAC's Vertex! | William Hauer, ASF DAAC |
| 086, hazardous weather, dynamic, physical process, airborne, in situ, field campaign | February 8, 2017 | Atmospheric Event-based Research using GHRC Tools and Services | Amanda Weigel, GHRC DAAC |
| 087, clouds, microwave radiation, high latitudes, long polar night, Arctic sea ice, gridded passive data, intersensor calibration, EASE-Grid, MEaSUREs, ESDR, SMMR, SSM/I, SSMIS, AMSR-E, netCDF, IDL, ENVI, GDAL, Panoply | February 1, 2017 | A New Era for Gridded Passive Microwave Data at NASA's NSIDC DAAC | Mary Jo Brodzik, NSIDC DAAC |
| 088, ambient air pollution, coastal eutrophication, biomass burning, ROSES, global grids, PM2.5, particulate matter, urban heat island, UHI, nitrogen dioxide, NO2, fire emissions | November 28, 2016 | Encore Presentation: Remote Sensing Derived Environmental Indicators for Decision Making | Dr. Alex deSherbinin, SEDAC |
| 089, ambient air pollution, coastal eutrophication, biomass burning, ROSES, global grids, PM2.5, particulate matter, urban heat island, UHI, nitrogen dioxide, NO2, fire emissions | November 21,2016 | Remote Sensing Derived Environmental Indicators for Decision Making | Dr. Alex deSherbinin, SEDAC |
| 090, high-level parameter groups, mission, platform, flight data ranges, climate change, air quality, INTEX-NA, NEAQS-ITCT, INTEX-B/MILAGRO, TexAQS2006, ARCTAS, ARCPAC, CalNEX, DISCOVER-AQ, DC3, SEAC4RS | October 26, 2016 | Improve your Airborne Data Discovery and Access with Toolsets for Airborne Data (TAD) | Amanda Early and Aubrey Beach, ASDC |
| 091, HiTIDE, subsetting, tool, swath data, gravity, ocean winds, currents, sea surface topography, salinity, sea surface temperature, SST, visualization, extraction, level 2, Drive | September 28, 2016 | Discover, Access, and Subset NASA Physical Oceanography Data | Mike Gangl and Aaron Plave, PO.DAAC |
| 092, data collection, quality control, data documentation, analysis | August 29, 2016 | Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Data Management Best Practices | Suresh Vannan, Dr. Alison Boyer, Dr. Yaxing Wei, NASA ORNL DAAC |
| 093, distinguish precipitation data products, delineate the different ways users can get the data, visualization and analysis tools and services | August 24, 2016 | TRMM and GPM Precipitation Products and Services at NASA's GES DISC | Dr. James Acker, NASA GES DISC |
| 094, full resolution imagery, natural phenomena, map interface, science disciplines, wildfire monitoring, air quality research, education, natural events illustration, open source, GIBS, imagery products | 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 |
| 095, ocean radar, altimeter, POD, ocean surface, topography, changes, Jason, radial RMS precision | June 29, 2016 | NASA Space Geodesy Data for Precise Orbit Determination of Altimeter Satellites | Dr. Frank Lemoine, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard |
| 096, freely and publicly available software, desktop, laptop, computers, process, visualize, analyze remotely-sensed data | June 15, 2016 | SeaDAS: Enabling the Study of our Planet from Space | Daniel Knowles, OB.DAAC |
| 097, data recovery, technology improvements, old data, treasure hunt, data exploration, long-term, climate change | May 18, 2016 | Satellite Techno-Archeology: Old Data Answers New Questions | David Gallaher, NSIDC DAAC |
| 098, VNIR, SWIR, TIR, spectral range, geology, soils, urban studies, vegetation, ecosystem dynamics, volcano, hazards monitoring, hydrology, land change, telescope, DEM, GDEM, infrared, L1T, precision, systematic, GIS, surface emissivity, reflectance, kinetic temperature, radiance, orthorectified register, Lahar Modeling, Data Pool | May 3, 2016 | A View from NASA Terra's Zoom Lens: All about the ASTER Sensor | Lindsey Harriman and Danielle Golon, LP DAAC |
| 099, physical oceanography data, tools, ADVICE, data visualization, interpretation, communication, engagement, series, data user, salinity science, research, PO.DAAC. SAC-D, Level 3, poster session | April 28, 2016 |
NASA Aquarius Data Training Session #4 (Virtual Poster Session) *Share “salinity story” during an online poster session |
Annette deCharon (University of Maine) |
| 100, physical oceanography data, tools, ADVICE, data visualization, interpretation, communication, engagement, series, data user, salinity science, research, PO.DAAC. SAC-D, Level 3, 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) |
| 101, physical oceanography data, tools, ADVICE, data visualization, interpretation, communication, engagement, series, data user, salinity science, research, PO.DAAC. SAC-D, Level 3, poster session | 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.) |
| 102, physical oceanography data, tools, ADVICE, data visualization, interpretation, communication, engagement, series, data user, salinity science, research, PO.DAAC. SAC-D, Level 3, poster session | 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) |
| 103, surface meteorology, solar energy, SSE, geospatial tools, solar panel, mapping application, ArcGIS, image service, capabilities | March 23, 2016 | Connecting to NASA Renewable Energy Data Resources with GIS | Jason Barnett, ASDC |
| 104, BEDI, Big Earth Data Initiative, OPeNDAP, middleware, metadata services, API, application program interfaces, AppEEARS, application for extracing and exploring analysis ready samples, point extraction, tool capabilities | March 15, 2016 | Access NASA Land Processes Data with Web Based Services | Jason Werpy, LP DAAC |
| 105, mission flight information, instrument status, weather reports, summary statistics, airborne science data, interactive exploration, visual playback, mission flights, subset, HS3, hurricane, severe storm sentinel | February 24, 2016 |
Explore, Discover, and Use Field Campaign and Related Data |
Manil Maskey, GHRC DAAC |
| 106, access, science disciplines, data search, inventory, browse images, filtering, subsetting | February 11, 2016 | Discover Earth Science Data with NASA Earthdata Search | Patrick Quinn, EOSDIS EED |
| 107, enhancements, data server, aggregations, pulled, user authentication, extended web services, BEDI, Big Earth Data Initiative, pushed, pulled, NetCDF, CSV, source-data arrays, DAP2, DAP4OGC, GIS, JSON | November 19, 2015 | Share Data with OPeNDAP Hyrax: New Features and Improvements | James Gallagher, OPeNDAP |
| 108, hazards, disasters, population, infrastructure, event, major dams, nuclear power plants, settlements, floow, tornado warnings, air quality, fires, earthquakes, NRT, near real-time | November 18, 2015 | Rapid Assessment of Hazard Impacts—NASA SEDAC Hazard Mapper | Dr. Greg Yetman, SEDAC/CIESIN |
| 109, multifaceted approach, flexible, collections, discover, data management, human, financial resources | November 12, 2015 | Metadata Recommendations, Dialects, Evaluation and Improvement | Dr. Ted Habermann, The HDF Group |
| 110, visualize, subset, manage, archive, distribute, ocean surface winds, topography, sea surface salinity, SSS, SST, temperature, gravity, ocean currents, circulation | November 3, 2015 | Discover and Use NASA Physical Oceanography Data | Dr. Michelle Gierach and Jessica Hausman, PO.DAAC |
| 111, ArcGIS, QGIS, Geoserver, framework, documentation, plug-in, construction, certification, GIS, ESRI, GMU, HDF Group | October 29, 2015 | Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) Enhancements for GIS | Matthew Tisdale and Brian Tisdale, ASDC |
| 112, HDF, HDF-EOS, THREDDS, data server, AppEEARS, middleware, BEDI, Panoply, ArcGIS | September 29, 2015 | Simplified NASA Earth Science Data Access through OPeNDAP | Dr.Yaxing Wei (ORNL DAAC), Aaron Friesz (LP DAAC), and Matthew Tisdale (ASDC) |
| 113, PALSAR, phased array, L-band | September 23, 2015 | Discover Simplified SAR Solutions at NASA's ASF DAAC | Rebecca Miller, ASF DAAC |
| 114, space geodesy, laser ranging, VLBI, very long baseline interferometry, doppler orbitography radio-positioning, DORIS, IAG, IGS, RTS, PPP, precise point positioning, disaster monitoring | July 22, 2015 | Accessing Real-Time GNSS Data and Derived Products from NASA's CDDIS | Carey Noll, Dr. Patrick Michael and Lori Tyahla, CDDIS |
| 115, radar, L-band, freeze, thaw, detection, SAR, radiometer, shared antenna, HiRes swath grid, arrays, HDF5, spacecraft data group, sigma0 data group, sigma0 slice data group, metadata, XML, CF, EASE Grid, SSM/I, SMMR, AVHRR, L1A, L1B, L1C, carbon, CO2, carbon dioxide | 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 |
| 116, access, visualize, download, Giovanni-4, MODIS, AOD, aerosol optical depth, time series, atmospheric data, LAADS, federated, multi-discipline, research | May 6, 2015 | Redesigning Giovanni: More Data, More Plots, Faster Results | Dr. James Acker, GES DISC |
| 117, ArcGIS, OPeNDAP, ncWMS, tropospheric, atmospheric chemistry, MOPITT, MISR, CERES, TES, CALIPSO, NetCDF, GRIB, HDF, REST, WMS web map service | April 29, 2015 | Improving Accessibility and Use of NASA Earth Science Data | Matthew Tisdale and Brian Tisdale, ASDC |
| 118, cryospheric data, data catalog, dataset differentiation, what, how, relevance ranking algorithm | April 16, 2015 | Discovering and Differentiating Data with the NSIDC Search | Amanda Leon, NSIDC DAAC |
| 119, geospatial, metadata, ISO 19115:2003, 19115-2:2009, 19115-1:2014, 19157:2014, 19130:2010, fundamentals, data quality, imagery sensor models, XML schema, codeLists, UML classes, CI_Citation, MD_Identifier, CI_RoleCole, MD_DataIdentification, DQ_DataQuality, LI_Lineage, LE_ProcessStep, MI_AcquisitionInformation, MD_GridSpatialRepresentation, UUID, ECS | 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 |
| 120, GPW, global population density, target years, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, quality metrics, essential metadata, grids, land area estimates, inland water location, fraction | January 29, 2015 | Discover NASA's Gridded Population of the World | Dr. Erin Doxsey-Whitfield, Kytt MacManus, SEDAC |
| 121, HDF, XML, JPEG, browse, metadata, Data Pool, ASTER, MODIS, WELD, SRTM | December 3, 2014 | Diving into the NASA Data Pools with DAAC2Disk | Kelly Lemig, LP DAAC |
| 122, information filtering, infographics, analytics dashboard, motivation, architecture, ontology, relevancy ranking, hurricanes, storm statistics, data discovery, severe storms | November 19, 2014 | Data Albums: An Event Driven Data Discovery and Access Tool | Ken Keiser and Ajinkya Kulkarni, GHRC DAAC |
| 123, West Africa, air quality, Saharan dust, health risk, aerosol monitoring, public health care, EUMETSAT, Senegal, opitcal depth, angstrom, albedo, UV index, absorption | 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) |
| 124, spectral resolution, OLI, Operational Land Imager, SWIR, Thermal IR, NIR, false color, pseudo natural color, panchromatic, L1T, terrain, quality assessment, climate data record, CDR, essential climate variables, ECV, NDVI, EVI, SAVI, MSAVI, NDMI, NBR | October 8, 2014 | Know your Landsat: Understanding and Accessing Landsat Data | Laura Rocchio and Jeannie Allen, NASA; Linda Jonescheit Owen, USGS |
| 125, maximum temperature, minimum, shortwave radiation, vapor pressure, snow water equivalent, precipitation, day length, Gridded Daily Data, tiles, mosaics, THREDDS, netCDF, single pixel extraction, REST URL, TDS, OGC, WCS, WMS, subset | September 25, 2014 | Accessing Daymet Data Through Web-Based Tools and Services | Dr. Michele Thornton, Yaxing Wei and Ranjeet Devarakonda, ORNL DAAC |
| 126, NRT, FIRMS, fire information, rapid response, worldview, GIBS, global imagery browse services, MODIS, true color, Aqua, AIRS, MLS, Terra, OMI, Aura, hotspot, active fire data | September 24, 2014 | Discover NASA Near Real-Time Earth Science Data using LANCE | Diane Davies, LANCE |
| 127, MEaSUREs, shuttle radar topography, SRTM, WELD, SDSU, web enabled Landsat, DEM, digital elevation model, ASTER, GDEM, GMTED, terrain, NED, national elevation dataset, mangrove height, biomass | July 23, 2014 | Discover New Data Products at NASA's LP DAAC | Kari Beckendorf, LP DAAC |
| 128, Earth science, planetary, heliophysics, astrophysics, astrobiology, space bioscience, aeronautics, engineering, human exploration, research, management, peer review, fellows, patents | June 11, 2014 | Fellowship Opportunities with the NASA Postdoctoral Program | Dr. Larry Voorhees, NASA Postdoctoral Program |
| 129, GNSS, SLR, VLBI, DORIS, geometry, gravity field, rotation, plate motion, solid Earth tide, loading phenomena, networks, radio, optical, quasar, broadcast, TRF, terrestrial reference frame, space segment, ground segment, GLONASS, IRNSS, QZSS, Beidou, Galileo, GPS, laser ranging, interferometry, IGS, ILRS, IVS, IDS | May 28, 2014 | Discover NASA's Archive for Space Geodesy Data: CDDIS | Carey Noll and Lori Tyahla, CDDIS |
| 130, radiation budget, clouds, aerosols, tropospheric chemistry, receive, archive, process, distribute, CERES, ERBE, SSE, SRB, ISCCP, CALIPSO, MISR, AirMSPI, TES, MOPITT, greenhouse gases, CO2, CH4, O3, N2O, water droplets, GEWEX, meteorology, polarimetric, solar energy | April 23, 2014 | Discover and Access Atmospheric Data from NASA's ASDC | Michelle Cook and Mary Jane Saddington, ASDC |
| 131, DAAC, ESMO, ASF, PO.DAAC, NSIDC, LP DAAC, GHRC, SEDAC, GES DISC, CDDIS, OB.DAAC, ASDC, LAADS, ORNL, GHRC, data services, distribution, NRT, near real-time, LANCE, AIRS, MLS, MODIS, OMI, atmosphere, cryosphere, land, human dimension, ocean, radiance, GCMD, CMR, Worldview, GIBS | March 26, 2014 | A Beginner's Tour: NASA EOSDIS Data Discovery and Access | Jennifer Brennan, EOSDIS Communications, NASA GSFC |
| 132, radar data, SAR, ERS, JERS, ALOS, RADARSAT, AIRSAR, UAVSAR, Seasat, MEaSUREs, SMAP, InSAR, terrestrial ecology, Vertex | February 26, 2014 | Real-Life Uses of Radar Data for Real-Life Scientists | Michelle Harbin, ASF DAAC |
| 133, global change master directory, discovery, collection level metadata, science, service keywords, series, dataset, granule, Earth science dataset descriptions, climate diagnostics, ancillary descriptions, tools, instruments, platforms, projects, providers, docBUILDER, OAI-PMH, bulk uploader, MWS, FTP, DIFs, SERFs, harvesting, protocol | January 22, 2014 | Discover Earth Science Data and Services using NASA GCMD | Tyler Stevens, GCMD |
| 134, human dimensions, environmental change, social science data, remote sensing, GIS, geospatial data, grid, polygon, point, CIESIN, GPW, Gridded Population of the World, settlement points, GRUMP, urban extents, population density, urban expansion, elderly, infant mortality, poverty, child malnutrition, HANPP, LECZ, sea level rise, human footprint, gROADS, global dams, natural disaster hotspots, anthropogenic biomes, agricultural lands, global fertilizer, species, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide emissions, food supply | November 20, 2013 | Explore NASA Socioeconomic Data using Web Mapping Services | Dr. Alex de Sherbinin and Sri Vinay, SEDAC |
| 135, airborne mission, sea ice, Greenland, Antarctica, Arctic, Alaska, glaciers | 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 |
| 136, terrestrial ecology, carbon cycle, ecosystems, land validation, model code, field campaign, NACP, North American Carbon Program, National Hydropower Asset Assessment Project, geospatial data, feature data, coverage data, AmeriFlux, datum, projection, SRID, SRS, spatial reference system, Daymet, SWEET | September 11, 2013 | Environmental Data Management Best Practices: Part 2 Geospatial Data | Suresh K.S. Vannan and Yaxing Wei, ORNL DAAC |
| 137, metadata, descriptors, documentation, content, parameters, data collaboration, sharing, raster, GeoTIFF, netCDF, HDF, ASCII, vector, shapefile, KML, GML | September 10, 2013 | Environmental Data Management Best Practices: Part 1 Tabular Data | Suresh K.S. Vannan and Dr. Robert Cook, ORNL DAAC |
| 138, data centers, DAACs, SIPS, Terra, Aqua, MODIS, ASTER, METI, cloud properties, vegetation index, surface mineralogy, soil, surface temperature, emissivity, surface topography, digital elevation model, DEM, GDEM, NAALSED, land surface emissivity database, EROS, Earth Explorer | August 28, 2013 | How To Access NASA ASTER and MODIS Data with Earth Explorer Tool | Kelly Lemig, LP DAAC |
| 139, field campaign, land validation, model archive, web service, SOAP, hyperspectral, Terra, Aqua | July 24, 2013 | MODIS Global Subsetting and Visualization Tool | Tammy Walker Beatty and Suresh K.S. Vannan, ORNL DAAC |
| 140, geospatial, visualization, analysis, interface, data maps, data plots, TRMM, OMI, NO2, MODIS, aerosol optical depth, correlation, sea surface tempearture, SST, chlorophyll, MERRA, net downward radiation flux, shortwave, longwave, animation, NLDAS, Hovmoller diagram, X-Y scatterplot, vertical profile, AIRS, histogram, interactive | June 26, 2013 | Giovanni—Access and Visualize Earth Science Data Online | Dr. James Acker, GES DISC |
| 141, sea surface temperature, SST, ENSO, El Nino, Southern Oscillation, data discovery, OPeNDAP, THREDDS, LAS, netCDF, COARDS, atmosphere research, GCMD, GIF, FGDC, swath, gridded, blended, temporal range, spatial coverage, TDS, LAS, Live Access Server, PMEL, SOTO, State of the Ocean, SSH, wind vectors, ocean color, salinity, hurricane tracks, currents, clouds | May 30, 2013 | GHRSST Data Discovery and Access Tools | Dr. Ed Armstrong, Dr. Michelle Gierach, Dr. Jorge Vasquez and Rosanna Sumagaysay-Aouda, PO.DAAC |
| 142, SST, infrared, IR, MW, microwave, polar, geostationary, in situ, GODAE, sea ice edge, ENSO, El Nino, La Nina, Southern Oscillation, AVHRR, decadal trends, FishTrack, fisheries, MUR, G1SST, high resolution, temperature, Ourocean, NCDC, OSTIA, REMSS, Paita, Pisco, Hovmoller Diagram, upwelling scales | 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 |
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