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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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Remote sensing data's drought-indicating parameters are essential to manage the impact of water scarcities and minimize drought losses.
Data in Action
June 27, 2018
Learn how surface reflectance and albedo as measured by satellite data help scientists understand the topography and vegetation cover of Earth surfaces.
Data in Action
Nov. 30, 2017
The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) Area Sampler allows users to extract, visualize, and download NASA data for an area of interest.
Tutorial
Oct. 25, 2017
Learn how to use Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Surface Reflectance data, including data types, scale factors, and band combinations.
Tutorial
Aug. 8, 2017
Learn about the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument and how to access VIIRS Surface Reflectance data.
Tutorial
Aug. 8, 2017
Learn how to work with ASTER Level 1 Precision Terrain Corrected Registered At-Sensor Radiance ASTER L1T HDF-EOS (.hdf) files in R.
Data Recipe
Aug. 4, 2017
Population data from the Gridded Population of the World (GPW) project and land surface temperature data from MODIS show that higher UN-adjusted population density correlates with higher Urban Heat Island temperatures.
Data in Action
Aug. 4, 2017
Learn how to access improved Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Surface Temperature data via Earthdata Search, covering product details and download steps.
Tutorial
April 10, 2017
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