About Our Training Program
The STAR Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition Science Team conducts training courses on aerosol, fire, and trace gas satellite products from ABI, VIIRS, TROPOMI & TEMPO.
The objectives of the training program are to increase access to the satellite products and promote their proper use in air quality applications in operations & research.
Using Python, training participants learn to work with satellite data from start to finish for a recent smoke, blowing dust, or urban pollution event.
Current topics include:
- Search online satellite data archives & download or stream files
- Open satellite data files (netCDF format), read metadata, and understand data variables
- Process and visualize satellite data
This website contains the resources developed for the training program:
- Training course agendas (Training Courses section)
- Instructions on how to download/install & set up Anaconda, Jupyter Notebook, and Panoply (Software Instructions section)
- Python tutorials for working with satellite data files (Python Tutorials section)
- Information users need to know about satellite products, data availablity, and data access (Satellite Data section)
- Definitions of satellites, sensors, products, and terminology (Glossary)
- Resources for satellite remote sensing and Python programming (References Links section)