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Spring 2025 – PACE Land data Users' Group, First Meeting

April 15, 2025
Virtual

We are excited to announce the formation of the PACE Land data Users' Group (PLUG)! We have found a growing group of data users enthusiastic about the unique terrestrial products only available from PACE, but less familiar with the observatory and best practices for downloading and applying the data. In response, we’ve created PLUG as a forum for interfacing with, growing, and informing the PACE terrestrial data product user community with the overall goal of advancing PACE land applications capabilities.

On April 15th 2025, we held our first PACE Land data Users’ Group meeting. Over 200 people from across the United States and nearly 20 countries attended our meeting live. Attendees were enthusiastic about PACE land data capabilities and had great questions for our Team. The next meeting is anticipated to be in July. Watch the PACE Events webpage for the meeting announcement.

Please see the Event Archive below for a recording of the event and PDF files of the slides for each presentation. A transcript of ALL audience questions and PACE Team answers is also provided. Note that the question and answer sessions are text format only so are not included in the recording.

For event questions or if you are interested in joining the PACE Land data Users’ Group, please email: [email protected]

Event Archive

Topic
Presentations
Recording
Getting to know the PACE mission, its terrestrial capabilities, and how to join the new PACE Land Data Users’ Group

Speaker: Morgaine McKibben (NASA GSFC/SSAI)

Goals
  • Learn about the PACE mission & PACE’s available land products
  • Understand how PACE-OCI compares to MODIS
  • Understand best practices to use the “Provisional” land data
  • Learn the PACE Land data Users’ Group objectives & how to join
Download slides here View Recording Here

Access Question & Answer transcript here
PACE Terrestrial Products – a New View of Ecosystem Traits, Land Cover, and Productivity

Speaker: Fred Huemmrich (UMBC)

Goals
  • Introduction to the new terrestrial Surface Reflectance (SFREFL) and Land Vegetation Index (LANDVI) data products available from PACE
  • Scientific insights from utilizing PACE’s SFREFL and LANDVI terrestrial data products that demonstrate their unique capabilities
  • Examples of utilizing SFREFL and LANDVI products for applications critically important to ecologists and land managers: monitoring terrestrial ecosystem traits, identifying land cover types, and calculating vegetation productivity
Download slides here
PACE Terrestrial Data Access

Speaker: Skye Caplan (NASA GSFC/SSAI)

Goals
  • Learn how to find and download PACE terrestrial data products from NASA Earthdata. Covered topics include: data types available, how to refine your search terms, and geographically sub-setting the data.
  • Learn how to find and download PACE terrestrial data products from the Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC).
  • Note, to download data from the sources above you need to register for NASA Earthdata account at this link: https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov/users/new
Download slides here