Example Resources

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NASA Resources

EIC Gallery: The gallery features interactive visualizations created using extensive satellite data collected over the past 50 years. The data focuses on crucial climate indicators such as greenhouse gas concentrations, air quality, and sea level rise. These detailed and interactive graphics help to illustrate our planet's changing climate conditions. They're designed to help users better understand climate dynamics and trends, empowering people to make informed decisions about environmental issues.

Data Pathfinders: Data Pathfinders guide users through the process of selecting application-specific datasets and learning how to use them through intuitive tools, facilitating equal and open access to the breadth of NASA Earth science data. The pathfinders are intended to familiarize users with and provide direct links to the applicable, commonly used datasets across NASA’s Earth science data collections.

Images of Change: The Images of Change gallery features images of different locations on planet Earth, showing change over time periods ranging from centuries to days. Some of these effects are related to climate change, some are not. Some document the effects of urbanization, or the ravage of natural hazards such as fires and floods. All show our planet in a state of flux.

NASA Explores Earth’s Interconnected Systems: This NASA video segment explains Earth as an interconnected system, and how climate change impacts trickle through these systems.

What NASA Knows from Decades of Earth System Observations: Dr. Karen M. St. Germain, Earth Science Division Director at NASA, describes what NASA knows from Earth observations and the interconnections between systems.

The Earth Information Center: NASA’s Earth Information Center (EIC) consolidates data and insights on how Earth is changing from across the US federal government and presents this information via an interactive experience or hyperwall.

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European Space Agency (ESA)

ESA Sentinel-3 World Fire Atlas: The Sentinel-3 World Fire Atlas has been developed by the European Space Agency processing the Sentinel-3A SLSTR Level 1b data containing two dedicated channels (F1 and F2) for fire and high temperature events at global scale during night-time. The ESA Sentinel-3 World Fire Atlas aims to provide continuity to ESA ATSR World Fire Atlas (operating from June 1995 to March 2012) taking on board all the improvements of Sentinel-3 SLSTR instrument.

EO Dashboard Story on Australian Wildfires: The Earth Observing Dashboard is a joint NASA, ESA, JAXA initiative to provide environmental and economic indicators based on Earth Observation data of the three agencies, and communicate scientific findings through storytelling.

Burned Area Products: Open Datasets from the Fire CCI project. The Fire project focuses on several issues relating to fire disturbance including analysing and specifying scientific requirements relating to climate, developing and improving pre-processing and burned area algorithms, inter-comparison and selection of burned area algorithms, system prototyping and production of burned area datasets, and product validation and product assessment.

Canadian Space Agency (CSA)

FireSmoke Canada: FireSmoke Canada is a popular Canadian portal for up-to-date information about wildland fire weather and smoke. You can choose to interact with this data in your browser or download it from their SmartFire database. It includes both forecast and observation datasets, which may help you with this challenge.

MOPITT: The Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) sensor is a Canadian instrument aboard the Terra satellite. As the name suggests, it measures pollution, specifically carbon monoxide, in the troposphere. Wildfires are one of several sources of this type of pollution.

Earth Observation Data Management System (EODMS): The Earth Observation Data Management System (EODMS) houses all of the Government of Canada's Earth Observation open data, including data from the RADARSAT missions.

Synthetic Aperture Radar Tutorial: This tutorial script contains samples for using RADARSAT mission’s images in python and QGIS to help users to make use of CSA data based on their needs.

RADARSAT Constellation Mission Goals and Impacts: This article provides more information on RADARSAT Constellation mission such as its mission goals and responding to key challenges in the areas of maritime surveillance, ecosystems monitoring and disaster management.

SCISAT: Canada’s SCISAT is an earth observation satellite that studies the complex chemical processes that affect the distribution of ozone in the upper atmosphere, especially over the Arctic. Studies have shown that compounds from wildfire smoke may contribute to ozone layer depletion.

Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT): This page provides information about the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. This mission, led by NASA and Frances' space agency (CNES) with contributions from the CSA and the UK Space Agency, provides new and detailed information on one of the most important resources we share – water. This information should help participants better understand the importance of surface water.

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