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Granule boundary of AVUELO AVIRIS-3 L2A Reflectance dataset

Search and Subscribe to AVUELO Datasets

The tutorial shows how to find AVUELO datasets using Earthdata Search and earthaccess python library, and set up email subscriptions for new data.
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Oct. 23, 2026
True color images of AVIRIS-3 scenes over a polygon

Search and Download AVIRIS-3 Granules for a Study Area

This tutorial demonstrates searching AVIRIS-3 granules over a polygon, find the pixel size and coverage of each scene without downloading the files.
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Oct. 23, 2026
Tree crown polygons mapped over an AVIRIS-3 true color image

Extract Quality Spectra of Tree Crowns from AVIRIS-3 Reflectance

In this tutorial, we use the tree crown polygons to extract AVIRIS-3 surface reflectance spectra for individual trees in a plot.
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Oct. 23, 2026
AVIRIS-3 and EMIT Spectra

Retrieve Colocated EMIT Satellite Data

In this tutorial, we find EMIT data that coincide with the AVIRIS-3 flights over a study area, and compare EMIT with AVIRIS-3 reflectance.
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Oct. 23, 2026
Backscatter images of UAVSAR over two Panamanian ecosystems

Ecosystem Structure from UAVSAR Polarimetric Radar and NISAR

In this tutorial, we use the NASA’s UAVSAR Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) product to compare the radar signatures with the colocated NISAR data.
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Oct. 23, 2026
PRISM Level 2A Reflectance showing spectra over bloom of Noctiluca scintillans in Cape Town, South Africa

Water Quality Mapping with PRISM L2A Reflectance

In this tutorial, we use PRISM Level 2A surface reflectance from the BioSCape campaign for studying blooms of Noctiluca scintillans and turbidity.
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Oct. 6, 2026
PRISM Level 1B Calibrated Radiance Spectra across water, sand, vegetation, and urban surfaces over Monterey Bay, California

Access and Orthorectify PRISM L1B Radiance Dataset

This tutorial shows how to discover, stream, and orthorectify PRISM Level 1B calibrated radiance for the PACE-PAX campaign and how to compare radiance spectra.
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Sept. 30, 2026
Daymet precipitation for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) power service area

Daymet Daily V4 R1 from NASA Earthdata Cloud via OPeNDAP

This tutorial shows how to perform complex regional and temporal subsetting directly on Daymet Daily datasets using the NASA Earthdata OPeNDAP Hyrax.
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Sept. 29, 2026
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