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LP DAAC Learning Resources

Explore webinars, trainings, tutorials, and other learning resources from NASA’s Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC). Learn how to discover, access, process, and apply Earth science data from platforms and instruments such as MODIS, ASTER, VIIRS, GEDI, ECOSTRESS, EMIT, and HLS.
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LP DAAC maintains a collection of dataset and topic-specific GitHub repositories that include step-by-step tutorials, scripts, guides, and example workflows for getting started with LP DAAC data. Users can browse available resources in the LP DAAC Data Resources GitHub repository, which serves as a central hub and provides links to additional LP DAAC–maintained GitHub repositories for specific datasets and topics. 

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The mineral map shows an area of southwestern Libya in the Sahara Desert observed by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission

Use EMIT Quality Data

Build a mask using an EMIT L2A Mask file and apply it to an L2A Reflectance file.
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GitHub Repository
June 17, 2024
data plot points and swaths

Orthorectify EMIT Data

Use the geometry lookup table (GLT) included with the EMIT netCDF4 file to project on a geospatial grid (EPSG:4326).
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GitHub Repository
June 17, 2024
data plot points and swaths

Convert EMIT .nc to .envi

Convert from downloaded netCDF4 (.nc) format to .envi format.
External Resource
GitHub Repository
June 17, 2024
EMIT image of aquatic chlorophyll a content from the EMIT sensor acquired on February 19, 2023. Image depicts a portion of the Mississippi River delta south-southeast of New Orleans, Louisiana, US

Work With EMIT L2B Mineralogy

Work with the EMIT L2B Mineral Identification Band Depth and Uncertainty Data and aggregate individual spectral library constituents into the EMIT-10 minerals and estimate abundance.
External Resource
GitHub Repository
July 7, 2024
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