Sentinel-2

Tutorials

• Exploring the Chile wildfires with Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery by Timothy Whitehead
  
• Integrate imagery from the Sentinel-2 archive into your own apps, maps, and analysis with the Sentinel-2 image service by Esri
  
• Learning Custom Scripts to Make Useful and Beautiful Satellite Images by Monja Šebela
  
• Tutorial for using Sentinel-2 data by Antti Lipponen
  
• Using Vector tiles and AWS Lambda, we can build a really simple API to get Landsat and Sentinel images by Remote Pixel
  

Tools & Applications

• EO Browser by Sinergise
  
• EOS Land Viewer by Earth Observing System
  
• FME Landsat-8/Sentinel-2 File Selector by Safe Software
  
• Interactive map with AI detected fields and crops based on Sentinel-2 imagery by OneSoil
  
• Python package for working with Sentinel-2 AWS data by Sinergise
  
• QGIS plugin for Sentinel-2 data by Sinergise
  
• Satellite Search by Remote Pixel by Remote Pixel
  
• Sentinel Hub WMS/WMTS/WCS Service by Sinergise
  
• Sentinel Playground by Sinergise
  
• Sentinel-2 Cloudless Atlas by EOX
  
• Spectator - tracking Sentinel 2, accessing the data and quick preview by Spectator
  
• Sterling Geo Using Sentinel-2 on Amazon Web Services to Create NDVI by Sterling Geo
  
• Use the Sentinel Explorer app to explore, visualize, and analyze the entire Sentinel-2 archive by Esri
  

Publications

• Coral-spawn slicks: Reflectance spectra and detection using optical satellite data by Hiroya Yamano, Asahi Sakuma, Saki Harii
  
• Using Remote Sensing Images and Cloud Services on AWS to Improve Land Use and Cover Monitoring by K. R. Ferreira, et al.
  

Landsat 8

Tutorials

• A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 4: Working with Satellite Data by Planet
  
• Exploring the Chile wildfires with Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery by Timothy Whitehead
  
• Integrate imagery from the full Landsat archive into your own apps, maps, and analysis with Landsat image services by Esri
  
• Using Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF by acgeospatial
  
• Using Vector tiles and AWS Lambda, we can build a really simple API to get Landsat and Sentinel images by Remote Pixel
  

Tools & Applications

• Aggi: the fire detecting Twitter bot by Aggi
  
• Apps for exploring and analyzing Landsat imagery on the fly by Esri
  
• COG-Explorer - View Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF images in the browser directly from object storage by EOX
  
• Development Seed Geolambda by Matthew Hanson
  
• Dynamic map tiling with Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs by Kyle Barron
  
• EOS Land Viewer by Earth Observing System
  
• FME Landsat-8 on AWS Reader by Safe Software
  
• FME Landsat-8/Sentinel-2 File Selector by Safe Software
  
• landsatlive.live by Development Seed
  
• Sentinel Hub WMS/WMTS/WCS Service for Landsat by Sinergise
  
• Sentinel Playground for Landsat by Sinergise
  
• Spectator - tracking Landsat 8, accessing the data and quick preview by Spectator
  

Publications

• Using Remote Sensing Images and Cloud Services on AWS to Improve Land Use and Cover Monitoring by K. R. Ferreira, et al.
  

NEXRAD on AWS

Tutorials

• Mapping Noaa Nexrad Radar Data With CARTO by Stuart Lynn
  
• NEXRAD on EC2 tutorial by openradar
  
• Using Python to Access NCEI Archived NEXRAD Level 2 Data (Jupyter notebook) by Ryan May
  

Tools & Applications

• Into the eye of the storm: NEXRAD Level II open data by Jonni Walker
  
• nexradaws on pypi.python.org - python module to query and download Nexrad data from Amazon S3 by Aaron Anderson
  
• Open NEXRAD Data Access for Level 3 with Lambda@Edge by Zac Flamig
  
• WeatherPipe - Amazon EMR based analysis tool for NEXRAD data stored on Amazon S3 by Stephen Lien Harrell
  

Publications

• Declines in an abundant aquatic insect, the burrowing mayfly, across major North American waterways by Phillip M. Stepanian, Sally A. Entrekin, Charlotte E. Wainwright, Djordje Mirkovic, Jennifer L. Tank, & Jeffrey F. Kelly
  
• Extreme Pyroconvective Updrafts During a Megafire by B. Rodriguez, N. P. Lareau, D. E. Kingsmill, & C. B. Clements
  
• Level 2 Interface Control Document for Message Data Formats: Build 18 by NOAA ROC
  
• Level 2 Interface Control Document for Transfer: Build 18 by NOAA ROC
  
• Level 3 Interface Control Document for Message Data Formats: Build 18 by NOAA ROC
  
• Seasonal abundance and survival of North America’s migratory avifauna determined by weather radar by Adriaan M. Dokter, Andrew Farnsworth, Daniel Fink, Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez, Wesley M. Hochachka, Frank A. La Sorte, Orin J. Robinson, Kenneth V. Rosenberg & Steve Kelling
  
• Unlocking the Potential of NEXRAD Data through NOAA’s Big Data Partnership by Steve Ansari and Stephen Del Greco
  

CBERS on AWS

Tutorials

• Keeping a SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) Up To Date with SNS/SQS by Frederico Liporace
  

Tools & Applications

• aws-sat-api-py by Remote Pixel
  
• CBERS static STAC catalog served by stac-browser by Radiant Earth
  
• CBERS timelapse GIF generator by Frederico Liporace
  
• cbers-tiler by Mapbox
  
• EOS Land Viewer by Earth Observing System
  
• Forest Monitor by Brazil Datacube, INPE
  
• Remote Pixel Viewer by Remote Pixel
  
• rio-tiler by Mapbox
  
• STAC V1.0 search endpoint for archive by AMS Kepler
  

Publications

• Using Remote Sensing Images and Cloud Services on AWS to Improve Land Use and Cover Monitoring by K. R. Ferreira, et al.
  

Multi-Scale Ultra High Resolution (MUR) Sea Surface Temperature (SST)

Tutorials

• Python Jupyter Notebooks by Chelle Gentemann, Rich Signell
  
• Python Reader Software by PO.DAAC
  

Tools & Applications

• HTTPS server by PO.DAAC
  
• OPeNDAP server by Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
  
• State of the Ocean (SOTO) server by PO.DAAC
  
• THREDDS server by PO.DAAC
  
• Web discovery service by PO.DAAC
  

Publications

• A multi-scale high-resolution analysis of global sea surface temperature by Chin, Toshio Michael, Jorge Vazquez-Cuervo, and Edward M. Armstrong
  
• GHRSST Data Processing Specification by GHRSST Project
  

Terrain Tiles

Tools & Applications

• EOS Land Viewer by Earth Observing System
  
• Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS Reader by Safe Software
  
• On The Go Map by On The Go Map
  
• Open-Source Elevation Service by Racemap
  
• PlanetUtils (GitHub): Scripts and a Docker container to download, merge, and resample terrain tiles by Interline Technologies
  
• PODPAC: Python Library supporting TerrainTiles for analysis by Creare
  
• R package for accessing Terrain Tiles by Jeffrey W. Hollister
  
• Sentinel Hub WMS/WMTS/WCS Service for DEM by Sinergise
  
• Sentinel Playground for DEM by Sinergise
  

NOAA Water-Column Sonar Data Archive

Tutorials

• Frequency Differencing with Raw Data by Carrie Wall
  
• Plotting Raw EK60 Data by Carrie Wall
  
• Reading and Plotting Bottom Data by Carrie Wall
  
• Reading and Plotting Processed CSV Data by Carrie Wall
  

Tools & Applications

• pyEcholab - an open-source, python-based toolkit for reading, processing, plotting, and exporting fisheries acoustic echosounder data by Rick Towler, Chuck Anderson, Veronica Martinez, Pamme Crandell
  
• Water Column Sonar Data Explorer - Map viewer for exploring sonar water column data by NCEI, NOAA
  

Publications

• Building an Accessible Archive for Water Column Sonar Data by Carrie Wall
  
• Increasing the accessibility of acoustic data through global access and imagery by Carrie Wall, Michael Jech, and Susan McLean
  

eBird Status and Trends Model Results

Tutorials

• eBird Status and Trends FAQ by Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  
• eBird Status and Trends Visualizations by Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  
• ebirdst - Background, Data Access and Data Structure by Tom Auer and Daniel Fink
  
• ebirdst - Generating Seasonal Abundance and Range Maps and Stats by Matt Strimas-Mackey, Tom Auer, and Daniel Fink
  
• ebirdst - Intro Mapping by Tom Auer and Daniel Fink
  
• ebirdst - Non-raster Data by Tom Auer and Daniel Fink
  

Tools & Applications

• ebirdst R Package by Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  

Publications

• Modeling avian full annual cycle distribution and population trends with citizen science data by Fink et al (2019)
  

NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) 16 & 17

Tutorials

• Comparison reading GOES-R data from AWS S3 in netCDF versus zarr by Chelle Gentemann
  
• NOAA GOES16 Julia Jupyter Notebook Example by Peter Schmiedeskamp
  
• Visualize GOES-16 in Python using Xarray by Hamed Alemohammad
  

Publications

• Billions of Birds Migrate. Where Do They Go? by National Geographic
  
• Comparison of Lightning Forecasts from the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model to Geostationary Lightning Mapper Observations by Brian K. Blaylock, and John D. Horel
  
• Embracing the cloud for climate research by North Carolina State University’s North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
  
• Solar irradiance forecasting for the solar powered future by Solcast
  

NREL Wind Integration National Dataset

Tutorials

• HSDS Examples by Caleb Phillips, Caroline Draxl, John Readey, Jordan Perr-Sauer, Michael Rossol
  

Tools & Applications

• Wind Prospector by Paul Edwards
  
• Wind Visualization by Jordan Perr-Sauer
  

Publications

• Overview and Meteorological Validation of the Wind Integration National Dataset Toolkit by Caroline Draxl, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Andrew Clifton, Jim McCaa
  
• Power from wind: Open data on AWS by Caleb Phillips, Caroline Draxl, John Readey, Jordan Perr-Sauer
  
• The Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit by Caroline Draxl, Andrew Clifton, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Jim McCaa
  
• Validation of Power Output for the WIND Toolkit by J. King, Andrew Clifton, Bri-Mathias Hodge
  

Radiant MLHub

Tutorials

• How to access Radiant MLHub Data by Radiant Earth
  
• Radiant MLHub Tutorials with Jupyter Notebooks by Kevin Booth
  

Tools & Applications

• Challenge on Computer Vision for Crop Detection from Satellite Imagery by Radiant Earth
  

Publications

• A Guide for Collecting and Sharing Ground Reference Data for Machine Learning Applications by Yonah Bromberg Gaber
  
• Creating a Machine Learning Commons for Global Development by Hamed Alemohammad
  
• Geo-Diverse Open Training Data as a Global Public Good by Hamed Alemohammad
  

National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) PV Rooftop Database

Tools & Applications

• NSRDB Viewer by NREL
  

Publications

• Estimating rooftop solar technical potential across the US using a combination of GIS-based methods, lidar data, and statistical modeling by Pieter Gagnon et al 2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 024027
  
• Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Technical Potential in the United States: A Detailed Assessment by Pieter Gagnon, Robert Margolis, Jennifer Melius, Caleb Phillips, and Ryan Elmore
  
• Rooftop Solar Technical Potential for Low-to-Moderate Income Households in the United States by Benjamin Sigrin and Meghan Mooney
  
• Using GIS-based methods and lidar data to estimate rooftop solar technical potential in US cities by Robert Margolis et al 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 074013
  

Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble (CESM LENS)

Tutorials

• Analyzing large climate model ensembles in the cloud by Joe Hamman, NCAR
  

Tools & Applications

• Jupyter Notebook and other documentation and tools for CESM LENS on AWS by NCAR Science at Scale team
  
• Rendered (static) version of Jupyter Notebook by Anderson Banihirwe, NCAR
  

Publications

• The Community Earth System Model (CESM) Large Ensemble Project: A Community Resource for Studying Climate Change in the Presence of Internal Climate Variability by Kay et al. (2015), Bull. AMS, 96, 1333-1349
  

DOE's Water Power Technology Office's (WPTO) US Wave dataset

Tools & Applications

• HSDS Examples by Caleb Phillips, Caroline Draxl, John Readey, Jordan Perr-Sauer, Michael Rossol
  

Publications

• Development and validation of a high-resolution regional wave hindcast model for U.S. West Coast wave resource characterization by Wu, Wei-Cheng; Wang, Taiping; Yang, Zhaoqing; Garcia Medina, Gabriel
  
• High-Resolution Regional Wave Hindcast for the U.S. West Coast by Yang, Zhaoqing; Wu, Wei-Cheng; Wang, Taiping; Castrucci, Luca
  
• SWAN Cycle III version 41.31A by The SWAN team
  

GEOS-Chem Input Data

Tutorials

• Tutorial on accessing GEOS-Chem data bucket in S3 by Jiawei Zhuang
  

Publications

• Enabling Immediate Access to Earth Science Models through Cloud Computing: Application to the GEOS-Chem Model by Jiawei Zhuang, et al.
  
• Overview of the GEOSChem-on-cloud project by Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group, Harvard University
  
• Running GEOS-Chem on Cloud Computing Platforms, presented at the 8th International GEOS-Chem Meeting by Jiawei Zhuang, et al.
  

OpenAQ

Tutorials

• Access OpenAQ data via a filterable SNS topic by OpenAQ
  
• Using Athena to access the whole archive by OpenAQ
  

Tools & Applications

• ARISense by Aerodyne Research, Inc.
  
• hackAIR by hackAir
  
• ropenaq R package by Maëlle Salmon
  
• Smokey: Air Quality Bot by Amrit Sharma
  

Publications

• Enabling rapid COVID-19 and air pollution analysis across the globe with OpenAQ and AWS by Christa Hasenkopf
  

OpenStreetMap on AWS

Tutorials

• Develop and Extract Value from Open Data by Daniel Bernao
  
• Querying OpenStreetMap with Amazon Athena by Seth Fitzsimmons
  

Tools & Applications

• OSM+Athena (GitHub) by Development Seed
  
• PlanetUtils (GitHub): Scripts and a Docker container to maintain your own OpenStreetMap planet by Interline Technologies
  

Sentinel-1

Tools & Applications

• EO Browser by Sinergise
  
• EOS Land Viewer by Earth Observing System
  
• Sentinel Hub WMS/WMTS/WCS Service by Sinergise by Sinergise
  
• Sentinel Playground by Sinergise
  

Sentinel-3

Tutorials

• Accessing Sentinel-3 Data on S3 by MEEO by Meteorological Envionmental Earth Observation
  

Tools & Applications

• Catalogue of data set by Meteorological Envionmental Earth Observation
  
• Sentinel-3 Toolbox by European Space Agency
  

Publications

• Sentinel-3 Document Library by European Space Agency
  

Sentinel-5P Level 2

Tutorials

• Accessing Sentinel-5P Data on S3 by MEEO by Meteorological Envionmental Earth Observation
  

Tools & Applications

• Catalogue of data set by Meteorological Envionmental Earth Observation
  
• The Atmospheric Toolbox by European Space Agency
  

Publications

• Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Document Library by European Space Agency
  

JMA Himawari-8

Publications

• Himawari-8 Advanced Himawari Imager Data on AWS (pdf file) by NOAA NESDIS
  
• Himawari-8 on AWS (pdf file) by ASDI
  
• Introduction of Himawari-8/9 (pdf file) by JMA
  

NASA NEX

Tutorials

• Accessing and plotting NASA-NEX data, from GEOSChem-on-cloud tutorial. by Jiawei Zhuang
  

Tools & Applications

• Azavea Climate API by Azavea
  

Publications

• Climate Downscaling Using YNet: a Deep Convolutional Network with Skip Connections and Fusion by Yumin Liu, Auroop Ganguly, and Jennifer Dy
  

NOAA Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) Re-forecast

Tutorials

• Example using GEFS Reforecast Data from AWS by Victor Gensini
  
• Retrospective Dissertation - Part 3: Reforecast Data by Francisco Alvarez
  

Publications

• The GEFS v12 and its reanalyses and reforecasts (Slides) by Tom Hamill
  

NREL National Solar Radiation Database

Tools & Applications

• HSDS Examples by Caleb Phillips, Caroline Draxl, John Readey, Jordan Perr-Sauer, Michael Rossol
  
• NSRDB Viewer by Manajit Sengupta, Yu Xe, Anthony Lopez, Aron Habte, Galen Maclaurin, James Shelby, Paul Edwards
  

Publications

• The National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB) by Manajit Sengupta, Yu Xe, Anthony Lopez, Aron Habte, Galen Maclaurin, James Shelby
  

OpenEEW

Tutorials

• Analyzing a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Mexico using Python by Grillo
  
• Developing a machine learning model for better earthquake detection by Grillo
  

Tools & Applications

• OpenEEW library for Python by Grillo
  

SILO climate data on AWS

Tools & Applications

• Convert NetCDF to ESRI ArcASCII or GeoTIFF by SILO
  
• NetCDF Operators to calculate seasonal means by SILO
  
• Python script to calculate a regional mean by SILO
  

Southern California Earthquake Data

Tutorials

• Cactus to Clouds: Processing The SCEDC Open Data Set on AWS by Tim Clements
  
• Getting Started with SCEDC AWS Public Dataset by Ellen Yu
  
• Using Lambda to Process Seismograms by Shang-Lin Chen
  

USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds

Tutorials

• Using Lambda Layers with USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds by Howard Butler
  
• WebGL Visualization of USGS 3DEP Lidar Point Clouds with Potree and Plasio.js by Connor Manning
  

Publications

• USGS 3DEP Lidar Point Cloud Now Available as Amazon Public Dataset by Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
  

Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) Soil Chemistry

Tutorials

• AfSIS Soil Chemistry - Usage Tutorial by QED
  

Publications

• Goalkeepers 2018, Soil - The Big Data Beneath Your Feet by QED
  

Atmospheric Models from Météo-France

Tools & Applications

• Windguru.cz by Windguru
  
• Windy.com by Windy
  

ECMWF ERA5 Reanalysis

Tutorials

• Accessing ERA5 Data on S3 Using Boto by Intertrust Technologies Corporation
  
• ERA5 tutorial using the Planet OS API by Intertrust Technologies Corporation
  

NAIP on AWS

Tools & Applications

• EOS Land Viewer by Earth Observing System
  
• VoyagerSearch showing off Batch + NAIP by Voyager
  

NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-D)

Tutorials

• Calculating growing degree days using AWS Registry of Open Data by Karen Hildebrand and Zac Flamig
  
• Visualize over 200 years of global climate data using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight by Conor Delaney
  

NOAA World Ocean Database (WOD)

Publications

• The World Ocean Database Introduction by Tim P. Boyer, Olga K. Baranova, Carla Coleman, Hernan E. Garcia, Alexandra Grodsky, Ricardo A. Locarnini, Alexey V. Mishonov, Christopher R. Paver, James R. Reagan, Dan Seidov, Igor V. Smolyar, Katharine W. Weathers, Melissa M. Zweng
  
• The World Ocean Database User's Manual by Hernan E. Garcia, Tim P. Boyer, Ricardo A. Locarnini, Olga K. Baranova, Melissa M. Zweng
  

Sentinel-1 SLC dataset for South and Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Korea and Japan

Tutorials

• Sentinel-1 Opendataset Wiki and Tutorials by Earth Observatory of Singapore
  

Publications

• Rapid flood and damage mapping using synthetic aperture radar in response to Typhoon Hagibis, Japan by Cheryl W. J. Tay, Sang-Ho Yun, Shi Tong Chin, Alok Bhardwaj, Jungkyo Jung & Emma M. Hill
  

Terra Fusion Data Sampler

Tutorials

• Basic Terra fusion product algorithm theoretical basis and data specifications by Zhao, Guangu; Yang, Muqun; Clipp, Landon; Gao, Yizhao; Lee, Joe H.
  

Tools & Applications

• TerraFusion GitHub by University of Illinois
  

UK Met Office Atmospheric Deterministic and Probabilistic Forecasts

Tutorials

• Met Office AWS Earth data - Getting Started by Jacob Tomlinson
  
• Met Office AWS Earth data - Subscribing to data by Jacob Tomlinson
  

Department of Energy's Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)

Publications

• On the Use of Coupled Wind, Wave, and Current Fields in the Simulation of Loads on BottomSupported Offshore Wind Turbines during Hurricanes by E. Kim, L. Manuel, M. Curcic, S. S. Chen, C. Phillips, P. Veers
  

First Street Foundation (FSF) Flood Risk Summary Statistics

Tools & Applications

• First Street Foundation Flood Lab by First Street Foundation
  

Publications

• Do You Know Your Home’s Flood Risk? by Edward Kearns, Jeremy Porter, Michael Amodeo
  
• Estimating Recent Local Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Current Real-Estate Losses: A Housing Market Case Study in Miami-Dade, Florida by Steven A. McAlpine, Jeremy R. Porter
  
• Validation of a 30 m resolution flood hazard model of the conterminous United States by Oliver E. J. Wing, Paul D. Bates, Christopher C. Sampson, Andrew M. Smith, Kris A. Johnson, Tyler A. Erickson
  

NOAA National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD)

Publications

• NDFD Product Spreadsheet (excel file) by NOAA MDL
  

NOAA National Water Model Reanalysis

Publications

• Simulating storm surge and compound flooding events with a creek-to-ocean model: Importance of baroclinic effects by Fei Ye, et al.
  

NOAA Operational Forecast System (OFS)

Tools & Applications

• OFS Data Aggregation and Sub-Setting by NOAA
  

SILAM Air Quality

Tutorials

• Simple examples by Roope Tervo
  

Safecast

Tools & Applications

• Safecast Map by Nick Dolezal
  

U.S. Census ACS PUMS

Tutorials

• Setting up Blazegraph on EC2 by data.world
  

MODIS MYD13A1, MOD13A1, MYD11A1, MOD11A1, MCD43A4

Tools & Applications

• Astraea Earth OnDemand by Astraea, Inc.