ARSET - Field Spectroscopy Hands-On Training for Airborne Image Validation EARTHDATA - BioSCape Data Skills Workshop: From the Field to the Image

ARSET - Field Spectroscopy Hands-On Training for Airborne Image Validation

This training will provide hands-on experiences on the use of hyperspectral in-situ field spectroradiometers for land and water targets as well as a first-view of some of the hyperspectral imagery collected during the BioSCape campaign. Participants will be able to use in-situ spectral data as means for validation of airborne imagery. We will also explore aspects for consideration when working with airborne data such as sun glint, sun angle, aircraft (pitch, row, yaw) factors, among others and how these impact the image analysis. Participants will also explore differences between in-situ and image spectral signatures and how these differences are affected by image spatial resolution.

Dates: October 7-8, 2024

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Host: NASA ARSET

Instructors: Justin Fain, Sativa Cruz, Juan Torres-Pérez

EARTHDATA - BioSCape Data Skills Workshop: From the Field to the Image

This workshop will equip participants with the skills to find, subset, and visualize the various BioSCape field and airborne (imaging spectroscopy and full-waveform LiDAR) data sets as well as corresponding NASA Earthdata satellite datasets. Participants will learn data skills through worked examples in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, including: wrangling LiDAR data, performing band math calculations, calculating spectral diversity metrics, machine learning and image classification, and mapping functional traits. The workshop format is a mix of expert talks and interactive coding notebooks and will be run through the BioSCape cloud computing environment.

Dates: October 9-11, 2024

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Host: NASA’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC), in close collaboration with BioSCape, the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), the University of Wisconsin Madison (Phil Townsend), The Nature Conservancy (Glenn Moncrieff), the University of California Merced (Erin Hestir), the University of Cape Town (Jasper Slingsby), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Kerry Cawse-Nicholson), and UNESCO.

Instructors:

• In-Person Contributors: Anabelle Cardoso, Erin Hestir, Phil Townsend, Henry Frye, Glenn Moncrieff, Jasper Slingsby, Michele Thornton, Rupesh Shrestha
• Virtual Contributors: Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Nico Stork, Kyle Kovach
• Cloud Computing Support: Alexey Shiklomanov & Evan Lang (NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre) and Amazon Web Services.