The aim of this workshop is to provide an introduction on how to access high-quality ecological, biogeochemical, and land remote sensing data offered free from NASA. We will highlight the NASA Earthdata Search Client and tools developed at two NASA centers, the ORNL DAAC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) and the Land Processes DAAC (Sioux Falls, South Dakota). The LP DAAC will highlight NASA’s Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples, a tool that enables users to subset geospatial datasets using spatial, temporal, and band/layer parameters. ORNL DAAC will demonstrate tools for soil moisture and climate data exploration, and the availability of pre-processed data cutouts from MODIS and other sensors for NEON, AmeriFlux, and over 2,000 other research sites globally.

The target audience is graduate students, post-docs, and other researchers who would like to use Earthdata to complement the information collected during field studies. Faculty members who would like to include exercises on use of Earth observation data in their curricula are encouraged to attend.