Training Resources

The Stakeholder Engagement Program (SEP) curates relevant training resources focused on how to access and use Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) products for both first-time users and those more experienced. For each product, resources are aggregated into the following categories: Fundamentals of Remote Sensing, Missions and Instruments, Data Products and Descriptions, Data Access and Code Examples, and Use Case and Application Examples.

The most frequently identified training need across the Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) 2022 survey submissions was for “Training in Cloud Use.” For information about cloud-specific training resources, please see Training in Cloud Use (PDF).

Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science (CASEI)

To learn more about CASEI and access the catalog, visit https://impact.earthdata.nasa.gov/casei/.

Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program

The training resources below are aggregated for Commercial Smallsat data (Planet and Maxar). For more information about accessing commercial data, visit the CSDA Smallsat Data Explorer.

CSDA Training Resources

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Satellite Imagery Products | Planet

Planet's summary of available products such as the Planet Basemaps and Planet Analytic Feeds

WorldView-1 Data Sheet

Technical specifications of WorldView-1 including items such as launch and orbit information

From Pixels to Products: An Overview of Satellite Remote Sensing

Presentation by Dr. Sundar Christopher at NASA IMPACT providing an overview of satellite remote sensing

WorldView-3 Satellite Maps Methane Plumes at Very High Spatial Resolution

Application example using WorldView-3 to map methane plumes

USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service to Use Planet Basemaps to Support their 2021 Growing Season Assessment

Sample application using Planet Basemaps to complete a growing season assessment

ESA WorldView Data Products

WorldView data products available through the European Space Agency (ESA)

Planet Imagery Product Specifications

Planet's imagery product specifications including product attributes and processing information

WorldView-2 Data Sheet

Technical specifications of WorldView-2 including items such as launch and orbit information

Planet | Insights - Our Constellations

Planet's description of their satellite constellations

New in CSDA: High Resolution Digital Elevation Models

CSDA and the Polar Geospatial Center's application of Maxar imagery to create high-resolution DEMs

Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS)

The training resources below are aggregated for the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) product. You can directly access HLS data here: HLSS30v2.0, HLSL30v2.0.

HLS Training Resources

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HLS Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document

Description of the algorithm used to develop the Harmonized Landsat/Sentinel-2 Reflectance dataset

Landsat

Overview of the Landsat mission series that is used in the development of HLS

Creating and Using NDVI from Satellite Imagery

NASA ARSET tutorial for creating vegetation indices from satellite imagery

HLS User Guide

User guide for the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) product

Sentinel-2 Missions

Overview of the Sentinel-2 mission that is used in the development of HLS

Understanding Phenology Using Remote Sensing

NASA ARSET tutorial for using remote sensing to understand phenology: the study of life cycle events. Crop and vegetation phenology is a potential application for HLS.

HLS SNWG Product Fact Sheet (PDF)

Fact sheet for the HLS product including items such as revisit time and spatial coverage

Landsat with Sentinel: Global Coverage

Resource describes the benefits of a combined Landsat Sentinel product with helpful visualizations

Techniques for Wildfire Detection and Monitoring

NASA ARSET tutorial for wildfire detection and monitoring using remotely sensed data. Burn scar mapping is a potential application for HLS.

Getting Started with Cloud-Native HLS Data in Python

Python tutorial for working with HLS data products

Ice, Cloud & Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) Quick Look Products

The training resources below are aggregated for the ICESat-2 Quick Look products. You can directly access these data here: ICESat-2 Quick Look.

ICESat-2 Training Resources

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About ICESat-2

Overview of the ICESat-2 mission including helpful videos

Hacking ICESat-2: How an Open Science Workshop Helped Scientists Wrangle Big Data

Overview of the ICESat-2 Hackweek

The Fundamentals of LiDAR

NASA ARSET's overview of LiDAR remote sensing

Earthdata Search

ICESat-2 data available through Earthdata Search

ICESat-2 Data Usher in a New Age of Exploration

Description of data from ICESat-2

ICESat-2 Hackweek Learning Resources

Resources from the ICESat-2 Hackweek

Sensing Our Earth from Above

Background information about LiDAR remote sensing from NASA Langley Research Center

ICESat-2 Data Access and Services

NASA ARSET's tutorial for accessing ICESat-2 data and using associated services for data visualization

ICESat-2 Data Products

List of ICESat-2 data products including links to data set landing pages and ATBDs

Wildfires

Using ICESat-2 to monitor wildfire hazard potential

Observation Products for End-Users for Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA)

Please note that OPERA products are still in development. For more information regarding the products' release dates and accessing the data, visit the following site: OPERA Products. To access training resources for the OPERA products, refer to activities hosted by OPERA's Stakeholder Engagement Program.

Air Quality

The training resources below are aggregated for the Air Quality Forecasts and Distributed Pandora Sensors product. You can directly access Pandora station data here: http://blickv.pandonia-global-network.org/.

Air Quality Training Resources

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Pandora Products

Overview of the Pandora data products by retrieval type

Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing

An introduction to basic concepts in spectroscopy and remote sensing

Using networked Pandora observations to capture spatiotemporal changes in total column ozone associated with stratosphere-to-troposphere transport

Use of Pandora systems within the Pandonia Global Network (PGN) for total column ozone observations

Pandonia Global Network (PGN) Reports

Technical documentation for the Pandonia Global Network (PGN), a network of Pandora sensors distributed globally to assist with satellite validation efforts

What is Spectroscopy?

Overview of spectroscopy, the measurement technique used by the Pandora spectrometer system

Pandonia Global Network (PGN) Pandora Data Visualizations

Pandora station data visualizations for the PGN (Pandonia Global Network)

Passive Sensors

An overview of passive sensors used for remote sensing of NASA Earth science data, including spectrometers

Earthdata Search Pandora Data Products

NASA datasets utilizing the Pandora instrument

Pandora Project

The Pandora Project home page that provides links to other relevant resources

Pandonia Global Network (PGN) Pandora Data

Access to PGN (Pandonia Global Network) Pandora station data

HLS-VI

The training resources below are aggregated for the HLS-VI product.

HLS-VI Training Resources

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Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2: A Harmonized Surface Reflectance Product

Background on the HLS Processing Algorithms and Data Products

Earthdata Search HLS Data Collections

List of HLS data collections from Earthdata Search

Understanding Phenology Using Remote Sensing

Training on the use of NASA remote sensing data for mapping vegetation health and seasonal patterns

HLS Index of Data

HLS data access index

Remote Sensing Phenology

Web resource that provides information about phenology, both ground-based and via remote sensing

Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Time Series Data to Detect Irrigated Areas: An Application in Southern Italy

Use of images from the HLS dataset to map the extent of irrigated areas in Southern Italy

The Role of Remote Sensing in Vegetation Studies

An overview of remote sensing and how it can be used for studying vegetation

Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data

Visualizations of harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 NDVI data

Landsat Overview

An overview of the Landsat mission

Weekly cloud free Harmonized Landsat Sentinel (HLS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates for western United States (2016-2019)

HLS NDVI estimates from 2016 to 2019 for mapping ecological conditions in the western United States

TEMPO

The training resources below are aggregated for the TEMPO product.

TEMPO Training Resources

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STAQs - Synergistic TEMPO Air Quality Science Mission

A mission to integrate TEMPO satellite observations with traditional air quality monitoring to improve understanding of air quality science and increase societal benefit

TEMPO Fact Sheet

Background on the TEMPO mission including science questions, mission organization, and instrument capabilities

TEMPO Early Adopters Program Workshop Events

TEMPO workshop materials provided by the TEMPO Early Adopters Program covering mission updates, applications, data products, tools, and resources

TEMPO Synthetic Data

Access to synthetic TEMPO Level 2 data products

Passive Sensors

An overview of passive sensors used for remote sensing of NASA Earth science data, including spectrometers

What is Spectroscopy?

Overview of spectroscopy, the measurement technique used by TEMPO

TEMPO Proxy Data

Summary and animation of TEMPO proxy data with access to a visualization tool by NASA SPoRT