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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Maxar's resources for learning the foundational aspects of satellite imagery

NASA ARSET training that provides a background on remote sensing

Maxar's on-demand imagery access

Presentation providing an overview of Planet and its potential applications

Overview and data product specifications for Maxar's view-ready imagery data

SkySat mission and instrument specifications from the European Space Agency

An overview of the WorldView series including links to find out more information about the WorldView mission

NASA Earthdata's tutorial on remotely sensed data including orbits, sensors, and spatial resolutions

Government and commercial applications of Maxar products

On-demand webinars and use cases for Planet data

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

True and false color combinations using HLS

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

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

NASA ARSET tutorial for creating vegetation indices from satellite imagery

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

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

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.

SNWG fact sheet for the HLS product including information such as temporal resolution and spatial coverage

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

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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Overview of the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) instrument on the ICESat-2 platform

NASA ARSET tutorial that presents a case study for monitoring water level height with ICESat-2

The OpenAltimetry tool is used for browsing ICESat and ICESat-2 data

Earthdata page for ICESat-2 Quick Look data products

Overview of the ICESat-2 mission including data stories and links to other relevant information

NASA ARSET's overview of LiDAR remote sensing

ICESat-2 Quick Look products available through Earthdata Search

Help article to learn about what ICESat-2 quick look data products are and how to find them

Description of data from ICESat-2

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

Access to PGN (Pandonia Global Network) Pandora station data

Details about the Pandora instrument, its campaign involvement, and its data products

Use of Pandora spectrometers to measure tropospheric column NO2 for the evaluation of Sentinel-5P TROPOMI NO2 products during the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS)

Hardware specifications for each version of the Pandora instrument design

Use of Pandora spectrometers for formaldehyde observations during the Korea-United States Air Quality Study (KORUS-AQ)

HLS-VI

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

HLS-VI Training Resources

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Weekly cloud-free Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates from 2016 to 2019 for mapping ecological conditions in the western United States

Details of the Sentinel-2 mission

Overview of the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) Project

Use of HLS to monitor deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest using NDVI, EVI, GEMI, and SAVI vegetation indices

Visualizations of the combined orbits of Landsat 8/9 and Sentinel-2

TEMPO

The training resources below are aggregated for the TEMPO product.

TEMPO Training Resources

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Access to synthetic TEMPO Level 2 data products

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

Overview of spectroscopy, the measurement technique used by TEMPO

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

PBL

The training resources below are aggregated for the PBL product.

PBL Training Resources

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