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Land Surface Learning Resources
Webinars, tutorials, data recipes and more to help you work with Land Surface.
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This data recipe guides users to terrain correct CEOS-formatted data granules for legacy platforms.
Data Recipe
Oct. 18, 2016
Learn how to view Radiometrically Terrain-Corrected (RTC) images in QGIS in this NASA data recipe.
Data Recipe
Oct. 18, 2016
Learn how to create and unwrap an interferogram with GMT5SAR script in this NASA Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center (ASF DAAC) data recipe.
Data Recipe
Oct. 18, 2016
View LP DAAC's presentation at the Black Hills Digital Mapping Association's 2016 annual conference.
Webinar
Oct. 4, 2016
In Spring 2016, DEVELOP researchers used MODIS data to identify areas of potential palm oil production and the risks of rainforest deforestation in Indonesia.
Data in Action
June 29, 2016
Learn how MODIS data reprocessing campaigns make the data more accurate, especially for temperature estimates of error-prone land-cover types such as deserts.
Data in Action
Feb. 24, 2016
Discover how MODIS data help track changes in snow water equivalents in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to help forecast drought in California.
Data in Action
Sept. 30, 2015
Researchers used MODIS and ASTER data to analyze how the Three Gorges Dam's construction altered vegetation along the Yangtze River's riparian zones.
Data in Action
April 29, 2015
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