Published June 26, 2024 | Version v2
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Air Quality Data Bootcamp: Exploring Air Quality Insights from Langley Research Center's Earth Science Missions

  • 1. ROR icon National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • 2. ROR icon Analytical Mechanics Associates (United States)
  • 3. ROR icon Science Systems and Applications (United States)
  • 4. ROR icon University of Alabama in Huntsville

Contributors

Hosting institutions:

  • 1. ROR icon Virginia Space Grant Consortium

Description

Time: 

  • June 25, 2024 9AM-3:30PM

Location:

  • NASA Langley Research Center, IESB, PC Lab training room 203 (2nd floor)
  • GSFC's Wallops Space Flight Center, Microsoft Teams 

Presenters:

  • Dr. Hazem Mahmoud, ASDC Project Scientist, hazem.mahmoud@nasa.gov
  • Elizabeth Joyner, ESDS Community Coordinator, elizabeth.r.joyner@NASA.gov
  • Dr. Stephanie M. Wingo,Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG) Lead, Interagency Implementation & Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT)
    University of Alabama in Huntsville, stephanie.m.wingo@nasa.gov

Description:

Workshop Agenda:

9 - 9:30 AM

Introductions, Goals, Housekeeping, IceBreaker

Mentimeter Poll

9:30 - 10:15 AM

Overview of Air Quality

Mentimeter Poll

10:15-10:30 AM

Break

Break Work: Find the Air Quality (AQI) for LaRC. 

Tip: Google Maps has a AQI feature that allows users to current
check air pollution levels.

Mentimeter Poll

10:30 - 10:50 AM

Hands on Activity 1A: Giovanni 
Flexible Grouping: Homogeneous
Location: Alaska Taylor Complex Fire
Instrument: MISR [MISR MIL3MAE v4]
Data: Aerosol Optical Depth 555 nm monthly 0.5 deg.
Time: Plot 1: 2004-Jan - 2004-Dec, Plot 2: 2004-01-01 - 2004-12-31
Location:  Region 77.3965W, 36.9646N, 76.166W, 38.0193N
Visualization: Time Series, Area-Averaged, Animation

Hands on Activity 1B: Giovanni
Flexible Grouping: Homogeneous
Location: Pick a location: Canada, Virginia, NY
Instrument: MISR
Data: Aerosol Optical Depth, 555 nm monthly 0.5 deg
Time: May-July 2004
Visualization: Time Series, Animation

10:50 - 11:15 AM

Hands on Activity 2: NASA Worldview
Flexible Grouping: Heterogeneous
Location: Borneo
Time: Aug- Oct 19, 2015
Data Layers to Add:
A. Satellite:  TERRA or AQUA     Data: RGB
B. Instrument: MISR     Data: Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), monthly mean
C. Instrument: MISR     Data: NDVI (vegetation), monthly mean
D. Instrument: MOPITT     Data: Carbon Monoxide (CO)
E. Population Density
Visualization: Comparison
For early finishers, select one of the following scenarios:

Scenario 2A Optional: California

Location: California
Time: Aug- Sep 2020
A. Satellite:  TERRA or AQUA     Data: RGB - Ascending or Descending
B. Satellite: TERRA or AQUA     Data: Thermal -Change color pallet
C. Instrument: MOPITT    Data: Carbon Monoxide (CO) -Change color pallet
Visualization: Comparison

11:15 - 12 PM

Measuring Air Quality from Space with Remote Sensing

12-1 PM

Lunch (Rooms 112/113) 

1- 1:15 PM

Share Out What You’ve Learned

Mentimeter Poll

1:15-1:40 PM

NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center (LaRC) & TEMPO
(See TEMPO Resources below.)

1:40- 2 PM

Hands on Activity: NASA Worldview
Location: LA, California and New Mexico
Instrument: TEMPO
Data: NO2 Troposphere
Time: June 17, 2024
Visualization: Animation

2-2:50 PM

Demo/Hands on Tools & Services

Hands on Activity: Earthdata Search

Location: State of California
Instrument: TEMPO
Data: NO2 L3 Troposphere / HCHO L3 / O3
Time: 1 day, June 16, 2024
Visualization: Animation
Locate Datasets and Landing Page: ASDC

2:50 - 3 PM

Resource: Earthdata Forum, Where to Go Next? (Support)

Hands on Activity: Earthdata Forum

  1. Log into Earthdata Forum.

  2. Search for TEMPO questions (existing) and/or post your own question

  3. Share your findings with the group

3 - 3:30 PM

Wrap Up with Mentimeter Poll
Post Workshop Survey

3:30 PM

Certificate Distribution & Adjourn 

 

Notes

Code of Conduct

The aim of the workshop is to be inclusive and welcome a diverse range of contributors with varying backgrounds. We are dedicated to fostering a friendly, safe, and inclusive environment for all, irrespective of gender, sexual orientation, ability, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and religion.

This code of conduct articulates our expectations for community participants and outlines the consequences for unacceptable behavior. Additionally, it strives to promote open science citizenship by prompting participants to recognize and enhance the connections between their actions and their impact on the community.

We extend an invitation to all workshop participants, presenters, and facilitators to join us in creating positive and secure experiences for everyone. If you observe someone actively working to ensure our community remains welcoming, friendly, and encourages the full participation of all members, we encourage you to bring it to our attention.

Unacceptable Behavior

To articulate the expectations that are incompatible with the culture we aim to cultivate for this workshop, we've outlined below the behaviors that are deemed unacceptable:

  1. Violence, threats of violence, or the use of violent language directed towards another person.
  2. Unwelcome verbal or written comments, or physical conduct, based on race, religion, color, sex (with or without sexual conduct, including pregnancy and sexual orientation involving transgender status/gender identity, and sex-stereotyping), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, marital status, or political affiliation.
  3. Posting or displaying sexually explicit or violent material.
  4. Posting or threatening to post other people's personally identifying information ("doxing").
  5. Inappropriate photography or recording.
  6. Inappropriate physical contact.
  7. Unwelcome sexual attention, including sexualized comments or jokes, inappropriate touching, groping, and unwelcome sexual advances.
  8. Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following (online or in person).
  9. Advocating for or encouraging any of the above behavior.

If a community member engages in unacceptable behavior, the community organizers reserve the right to take any action they deem appropriate, including a temporary ban or permanent expulsion from the community without prior warning.

Consequences for Violations of the Code of Conduct

The responsibility of community leaders is to uphold our standards of acceptable behavior. We will implement fair and appropriate corrective measures in response to any behavior deemed inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Community leaders possess the right and obligation to remove, edit, or reject comments, issues, and other contributions that deviate from this Code of Conduct.

Technical info

Resources:

Programming Tools:

Methods

Support 

Training, Webinars, and Tutorials:

  • Data discovery and data access webinars and video tutorials available online.  To sign-up to receive announcements for upcoming webinars:   Send an email to: earthdatawebinars-join@lists.nasa.gov  leave the subject and body of the email blank.
  • View Recipes and Tutorials
  • Getting Started Guide
    • Whether you are a scientist, an educator, a student, or just interested in learning more about how to use all of the openly accessible data in NASA's EOSDIS collection, we have the resources to help! This guide is designed to help you get started with NASA's Earth science datasets, services, and tools.
  • Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) trains people to use Earth-observing data into their environmental management and decision-making. 

Open Science

  • Open Science Certificate:

Technical info

TEMPO:

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Dates

Available
2024-06-25