Summer 2025 – PACE Land data Users' Group

July 1, 2025
Virtual

Our second PACE Land data Users' Group (PLUG) meeting answered members' questions about current options for working with PACE data in the Geographic Information Systems and Google Earth Engine domains. Free, open source code repositories and tutorials were provided through presentations #2 and #3 in response to PLUG members’ requested meeting topics. Over 400 attendees registered from across the globe, representing public, private, research, applied sectors and more. Attendees were enthusiastic about PACE land data capabilities and had great questions for our team. Please see the Event Archive below for a recording of the meeting, presentation slides, and code repository locations.

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NEW to PLUG? Interested in PACE terrestrial remote sensing capabilities? Get caught up by reviewing our first meeting on April 15^th 2025.

JOIN US! PLUG meetings are held quarterly. Bring your interest in PACE terrestrial data and your questions for our speakers. This group is a forum for interfacing with, growing, and informing the PACE terrestrial remote sensing user community with the overall goal of advancing PACE land applications capabilities. Watch the PACE Events webpage for the next meeting announcement.

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Event Archive

Topic	Presentations	Recording, Q&A Transcript
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Welcome: Second meeting of our new PACE Land data Users’ Group Speaker: Morgaine McKibben (NASA GSFC/SSAI) Goals PACE Mission updates Brief recap of, and survey results from, the first PACE Land data Users’ Group meeting Overview of working with PACE data in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Google Earth Engine (GEE) environments, as well as upcoming new capabilities later this year	Download slides here	View Recording of Entire Meeting Here
Tutorial Demonstration: Reprojecting PACE Data and Exporting to GeoTIFF Format in Python Speaker: Skye Caplan (NASA GSFC/SSAI) Goals Demonstration of a Jupyter Notebook tutorial with Python code developed in support of converting Level 2 PACE satellite data in NetCDF format to GeoTIFF format. Notebook objectives: Opening PACE OCI surface reflectance and vegetation index products Reprojecting Level 2 data into defined coordinate reference systems Exporting reprojected PACE data in GeoTIFF format, which is compatible with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software (e.g. ArcGIS, QGIS)	Access Jupyter Notebook Here
Development of a Cloud-based Toolkit for PACE OCI Land Data Speaker: Dr. Emil Cherrington (NASA GSFC/SSAI) Goals Emil Cherrington, one of our PACE Early Adopters and a fellow PACE Land data Users’ Group member, will share a cloud-based Google Earth Engine (GEE) toolkit he created to work with PACE land data. Presentation objectives: Overview & Objectives Toolkit features Demonstrate basic tools for interacting with PACE OCI land data in GEE GEE data and code repository from presentation will be shared for other GEE users interested in PACE OCI land data to utilize and learn from	(1) Download slides here (2) Access Google Earth Engine Repository Here

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