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The tutorials listed below help identify best practices when working with Landsat data directly in the cloud; accessing Landsat data via the Machine-to-Machine API; and utilizing the Landsat Quality Assessment (QA) band. More tutorials will be added to this page as they are created. 

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Landsat STAC Direct Requester Pays Download Landsat STAC Direct Requester Pays Download

In this tutorial, we demonstrate the process of accessing Landsat data files through the STAC API and the AWS command-line tools, specifically the requester-pays functionality. Users can define their spatial and temporal parameters to query and download multiple Landsat data band files.

Using the Landsat SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) for Band Selection and Retrieval Using the Landsat SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) for Band Selection and Retrieval

This tutorial will introduces the basics of selecting a subset of bands over a set area of interest (AOI) and time span, loading the desired cloud optimized geotiffs (COGs) into a Jupyter Notebook directly from the cloud, cropping the bands and creating a natural composite.

Machine to Machine (M2M) Querying MetadataFilters Machine to Machine (M2M) Querying MetadataFilters

This tutorial demonstrates how to query using metadata specific to the various collections of Landsat data. We use the following Machine-to-Machine API filters: metadataValue, metadataBetween, metadataAnd, and metadataOr. Users can view queryable metadata after following one of these steps (1) Submitting a dataset-filters query and listing the results (2) Submitting a search on Earth...

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Landsat Download: Bands, Bundles, and Band Groups Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Landsat Download: Bands, Bundles, and Band Groups

This notebook shows how to download Landsat Collection 2 bands, bundles, and band groups using the M2M API. In this context, "bands" refer to individual band files in TIF format, "bundles" include all files for a product(s) as .tar files, and "band groups" include downloading all files for a given product(s) as individual files (unpacked from the .tar file within a bundle). The area of...

Landsat QA ArcGIS Pro Toolbox Landsat QA ArcGIS Pro Toolbox

Landsat Quality Assessment (QA) bands provide helpful information for evaluating the overall usefulness of individual pixels. Each pixel in the QA band contains an integer value that represents bit-packed combinations of surface, atmospheric, and sensor conditions that can affect pixel quality. The Landsat QA Toolbox will allow users to extract those bits of QA information on ArcPro and...
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