Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This media workshop was recorded at AGU's 2024 Annual Meeting on 10 December 2024.
In this hands-on session, a team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Chapman University show participants how to download land surface temperature data files from the ECOSTRESS mission and visualize the data in QGIS to create urban heat maps.
Asphalt and concrete warm and retain much more heat in the summer than natural surfaces. In this session, participants will produce maps of urban areas that show how much hotter roads and sidewalks, airport runways, asphalt playgrounds, and other built surfaces are than areas that have grass, trees, or other natural land cover.
More information can be found at https://www.observingearthfromabove.com.
Speakers:
Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Josh Fisher, Chapman University
Christine Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This media workshop was recorded at AGU's 2024 Annual Meeting on 10 December 2024.
In this hands-on session, a team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Chapman University show participants how to download land surface temperature data files from the ECOSTRESS mission and visualize the data in QGIS to create urban heat maps.
Asphalt and concrete warm and retain much more heat in the summer than natural surfaces. In this session, participants will produce maps of urban areas that show how much hotter roads and sidewalks, airport runways, asphalt playgrounds, and other built surfaces are than areas that have grass, trees, or other natural land cover.
More information can be found at https://www.observingearthfromabove.com.
Speakers:
Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Josh Fisher, Chapman University
Christine Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
