Summer 2025 – PACE Land data Users’ Group

July 1, 2025
Virtual Event

Join us for our second meeting of the new PACE Land data Users' Group (PLUG) on July 1st 2025, 2-3pm (Eastern US, UTC-04:00). 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 how to obtain/utilize the data. In response, we’ve created PLUG as a forum for interfacing with, growing, and informing the PACE terrestrial data product user community. New to PLUG? Learn about the group and catch up on our first meeting (April 15^th 2025) by clicking here.

REGISTRATION

CLICK HERE to join us via WebEx (virtual event) on Tuesday, July 1^st, 2pm-3pm (Eastern US, UTC-4:00)

MEETING AGENDA

(1) Welcome: Second meeting of our new PACE Land data Users’ Group (10 min), Morgaine McKibben (NASA GSFC/SSAI)

PACE Mission & Applications Updates
Brief recap of 1^st meeting & post-meeting survey
Answers to your post-meeting survey questions

(2) Tutorial Demonstration: Reprojecting PACE Data and Exporting to GeoTIFF Format in Python (10 mins + 5 min Q&A) -- Skye Caplan (NASA GSFC/SSAI)

Demonstration of a Jupyter Notebook developed in support of converting Level 2 PACE satellite data to GeoTIFF format using Python. Notebook objectives include:

Open PACE OCI surface reflectance and vegetation index products
Reproject Level 2 data into defined coordinate reference system
Export reprojected data to GeoTIFF format, which is compatible with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software (e.g. ArcGIS, QGIS)

(3) Guest Presentation: Development of a Cloud-based Toolkit for PACE OCI Land Data (15 mins + 5 Q&A), Emil Cherrington (Univ Alabama, Huntsville)

Emil Cherrington, one of our PACE Early Adopters and a fellow PACE Land data Users’ Group member, will share his work on developing a Google Earth Engine workflow with PACE data. Presentation objectives include:

Demonstrate moving PACE OCI land data into Google Earth Engine (GEE) from NASA Earthdata (PACE data are not currently in the GEE Catalog)
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

(4) Final Q&A, solicit feedback for next meeting

Feel free to share this invitation. Questions? Email [email protected].

We look forward to seeing you there!

Plug co-leads:

   Morgaine McKibben (NASA GSFC/SSAI)
   Fred Huemmrich (NASA GSFC/UMBC)
   Skye Caplan (NASA GSFC/SSAI)