Workflow 1) General protocol for accessing data

[lauracrews]

Goal: Read data from EarthDataSearch to the Jupyter Hub

What should our method do?

• Allow us to specify geographic region and time period of interest
• Allow us to specify a data type (i.e., imagery resolution from NPP)

How do we do it?

• I believe the first part of the earthaccess_satpy notebook is working and will access the data

What questions or issues remain?

• Any further updates from Colin or Dalton?

[colinsauze]

I've been trying to combine code which looks for images with ice and low cloud (based on maskviewer.ipynb) with something that downloads the satellite images (based on DownloadData.ipynb, earthaccess.ipynd and create_image.ipynb). I ended up spending a lot of time trying to find which dataset is which, this page (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/data/get-started-data/collection-overview/missions/s-npp-nasa-viirs-overview/) was quite useful, essentially M01-M05 are visible bands and these are found in the VNP02MOD dataset. I1-I6 are reflectance bands found in VNP02IMG, VNP03DNB is the day/night band and VNP27 contains the processed data with ice and clouds.

I've been trying to get satpy to show the visible bands together, but haven't got this to work yet. My attempts so far are in the satpy_visual branch in earthaccess_satpy.ipynb.