NASA Data Made Easy: Part 1- Tools for the Ecological Data Revolution

Note: This video series is part of a workshop presenting during the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2020

An Ecological Data Revolution is underway giving ecologists unprecedented insights to Earth’s systems and driven by the integration and harmonization of data sources from multiple spatial scales. Traditional field data provide observations of organisms and their environment on the local to regional level. NASA satellite-based remote sensing data complements field data with environmental variables such as temperature and precipitation, and vegetative data such as canopy height and evaporative stress.This workshop video discusses the fleet of NASA satellites, as well as the lifecycle of NASA data, from data acquisition to processing to archiving to distribution.