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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drought severity index (DSI) for Uruguay in March 2015, it combines MODIS LST (MOD11A2), MODIS spectral bands (MOD09A1) to form an NDWI, and NOAA precipitation data to create a map showing the level of drought severity throughout the country

Monitoring Drought in Uruguay Using Earth Data

See how a NASA DEVELOP team used MODIS data to create a drought-monitoring tool to benefit the agriculture and energy sectors.

Data in Action

July 1, 2015

Irrigation and Land Use Change in Tamil Nadu

See how MODIS data are used to determine areas susceptible to water-stress to show the relative health of the vegetation compared to the same area with healthy vegetation.

Data in Action

June 25, 2015

Decades of Dormancy: Calbuco Awakens

Discover how researchers used NASA remote sensing data to analyze the eruption of Calbuco Volcano and its impact on the surrounding environment.

Data in Action

May 29, 2015

An infrared false color composite ASTER image of the Todhia Arable Farm in Saudi Arabia.

Desert Agriculture, Frost Risk, and Land Cover Change

Learn how NASA data can inform crop decisions in desert areas, help farmers predict frost events, and understand why land change trends occur.

Data in Action

April 29, 2015

Impacts of the Largest Dam in China on the Local Vegetation Cover

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

The Afar Triangle: 15 Years of ASTER Imagery

See how scientists used ASTER thermal infrared imagery to study Ethiopia's volcanically active Afar Triangle.

Data in Action

March 25, 2015

Earthdata graphic identifier on top of satellite image of Earth

Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features 2014

Read stories from the 2014 issue of Sensing our Planet to learn about the many uses of MODIS data distributed by LP DAAC.

Data in Action

March 18, 2015

MODIS satellite image of flooding along the Shire River

Flooding of the Shire River

MODIS data captured the extensive flooding of the Shire River in Malawi and Mozambique, caused by unusually heavy rains and a tropical cyclone.

Data in Action

Feb. 15, 2015

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LP DAAC Learning Resources

Monitoring Drought in Uruguay Using Earth Data

Irrigation and Land Use Change in Tamil Nadu

Decades of Dormancy: Calbuco Awakens

Desert Agriculture, Frost Risk, and Land Cover Change

Impacts of the Largest Dam in China on the Local Vegetation Cover

The Afar Triangle: 15 Years of ASTER Imagery

Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features 2014

Flooding of the Shire River

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