Get Ready to Work with PACE Data
Understanding Data | Accessing Data | Analyzing Data
PACE's cutting-edge technology will reveal new insights into our ocean, atmosphere and climate. To help you engage with PACE data, we have created a list of key resources. Icons indicate the resource type and time commitment to fully engage with that resource.
Training
Website
Books
Paper Report
Video
Data Products
Previous Satellite
Computer Code
Quick (few minutes)
Moderate (minutes to hours)
Intensive (hours to days)
Remote Sensing (e.g., Ocean Optics)
- Shedding Light on PACE
- PACE Class materials
- Ocean Optics Web Book
- Internation Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) Report Series
- IOCCG Missions & Instruments
- NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET): Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
- NASA EarthData: Learn About Remote Sensing
- NASA EarthData: Data Processing Levels
Introduction to PACE
- The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem Mission: Status, Science, Advances
- Science Definition Team Report
- Science Overview
- StoryMaps on the Use of PACE Data
- Applications Capability Matrix
- Mission Overview
- Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry: PACE Mission Training Lectures 2022
PACE Instruments
- Ocean Color Instrument: PACE website | Ocean Color website
- SPEXone Polarimeter: PACE website | Ocean Color website | SPEX Airborne
- HARP2 Polarimeter: PACE website | Ocean Color website | HARP Cubesat
- Heritage Instrument MODIS: Chlorophyll-a | Aerosol Product
- Heritage Instrument VIIRS: Chlorophyll-a | Aerosol Product
PACE Data Products
- PACE Data Products: Overview | Table
- PACE Technical Memo Series
- NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG)
- OBPG: Algorithm Descriptions<
- PACE Science and Applications Team
- OBPG: PACE Science Data Products and Formats
PACE Data Limitations and Uncertainties
PACE Calibration and Validation
- PACE Vicarious Calibration Plan
- OBPG: SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System (SeaBASS)
- PACE Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX)
- PACE Validation Science Team (TBD)
Other Resources
Downloading or Visualizing Data from OB.DAAC
- NASA EarthData Login
- NASA EarthData: Cloud Evolution
- NASA EarthData: Openscapes Cloud Cookbook
- NASA EarthData: Cloud Primer for Amazon Web Services
- Discover Earth Science Data Resources at NASA Earthdata
- NASA EarthData: earthaccess Python library overview
- NASA EarthData: Search PACE Data Portal
- Access PACE Data
- Ocean Biology Distributed Archive Archive Center (OB.DAAC): Ocean Color Web
- OB.DAAC: Get Started
- OB.DAAC: Find Data
- OB.DAAC: Search and Download Methods
- OB.DAAC: Use Data
- OB.DAAC: Ocean Data File Search
- OB.DAAC: Browse Data (click "Help" button at upper right, if needed)
- OB.DAAC Gridded Maps: Level 3 & 4 Browser
- OB.DAAC: Direct Data Access
- OB.DAAC: Tutorials & Data Recipes
- NASA EarthData: Introduction to PACE Mission, Products, and Data Discovery (video)
- NASA EarthData: Introduction to PACE Mission, Products, and Data Discovery (slides)
- Official NASA/OB.DAAC Data Analysis Software: SeaDAS
Other Platforms to Download or Visualize Data
- NASA EarthData
- NASA Worldview
- Getting Started with NASA Worldview
- NASA Giovanni (click "Help" button at upper right, if needed)
- Panoply netCDF, HDF, and GRIB Data Viewer
- University of Maine: OceanOptics / GetOC (Bulk download ocean color images)
Introduction to NetCDFs
- Unidata: Network Common Data Form (NetCDF)
- EarthData: NetCDF
SeaDAS
- Official NASA/OB.DAAC Data Analysis Software SeaDAS
- SeaDAS Tutorials List
- SeaDAS Tutorials & Demos
- SeaDAS GitHub
Stay tuned for more code to come!