VITALS

Welcome to the VSWIR Imaging and Thermal Applications, Learning, and Science Repository! This repository provides Python Jupyter notebooks to help users work with visible to short-wave infrared imaging spectroscopy data, thermal infrared data, and other related products from the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument, ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrument, Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) instrument, Airborne Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectromerter (AVIRIS-3) instrument, and the National Ecologial Observation Network (NEON) Imaging Spectrometer.

2025 VSWIR-TIR Fundamentals to use Hyperspectral and Thermal NASA Earth Observations Workshop

Please view the web-book for workshop details.

Prerequisites/Setup Instructions

To run through the notebooks contained within the repository, please ensure you have the prerequisites, then follow the local setup instructionsif not attending a workshop. If you are attending a workshop, please follow the workshop setup instructions

Getting Started

Clone or download the VITALS repository.

Download
To clone the repository, type git clone https://github.com/nasa/VITALS.git in the command line.

Resource	Type	Summary
Exploring EMIT L2A Reflectance	Jupyter Notebook	Search, access, and work with EMIT L2A Reflectance data
Exploring ECOSTRESS L2T LSTE	Jupyter Notebook	Search, access, and work with ECOSTRESS L2T Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity data
Exploring PACE OCI L2 Surface Reflectance	Jupyter Notebook	Search, access, and work with PACE OCI L2 Surface Reflectance data
Finding Coincident Airborne and Orbital Data	Jupyter Notebook	Find spatially and temporally coincident airborne and orbital data (EMIT, ECOSTRESS, AVIRIS-3)
EMIT & ECOSTRESS Tutorials
1. Finding Concurrent Data	Jupyter Notebook	Search and filter for concurrent EMIT and ECOSTRESS data
2. Working with EMIT Reflectance and ECOSTRESS LST	Jupyter Notebook	Streaming, Downloading and Co-Registering concurrent EMIT and ECOSTRESS data
3. EMIT CWC from Reflectance	Jupyter Notebook	Calculate Canopy Water Content from EMIT reflectance
4. Dangermond Land Cover	Jupyter Notebook	Canopy Water Content and Land Surface Temperature of Invasive Plants at Dangermond Preserve
5. SB Vineyards	Jupyter Notebook	Vineyard Vegetation Health using EMIT and ECOSTRESS data
EMIT & NEON Tutorials
1. Finding Co-located NEON EMIT Data	Jupyter Notebook	Find co-located NEON and EMIT reflectance data at Niwot Ridge
2. Exploring NEON and EMIT Reflectance Data	Jupyter Notebook	Explore and compare NEON and EMIT reflectance data
PACE & EMIT Tutorials (Community Contributed)
1. Colocate PACE EMIT Data	Jupyter Notebook	Find concurrent PACE and EMIT data
2. Process PACE EMIT Data	Jupyter Notebook	Align, resample, and process PACE and EMIT data

Citation

This repository is the product of a collaborative effort from several teams including the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), NASA Ocean Biology DAAC, and NASA Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC. If you use this resource or an associated data product for your research, we appreciate a citation.

For each data product used, you can retrieve a citation in your desired format from the product pages below.

Product	Product Page	Collection Shortname
EMIT L2A Estimated Surface Reflectance and Uncertainty and Masks	https://doi.org/10.5067/EMIT/EMITL2ARFL.001	EMITL2ARFL
ECOSTRESS Tiled Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Instantaneous L2 Global 70 m	https://doi.org/10.5067/ECOSTRESS/ECO_L2T_LSTE.002	ECO_L2T_LSTE
ECOSTRESS Tiled Evapotranspiration Instantaneous and Daytime L3 Global 70 m	https://doi.org/10.5067/ECOSTRESS/ECO_L3T_JET.002	ECO_L3T_JET
PACE OCI Level-2 Regional Surface Reflectance Data	https://doi.org/10.5067/PACE/OCI/L2/SFREFL/3.1	PACE_OCI_L2_SFREFL
AVIRIS-3 L2A Orthocorrected Surface Reflectance, Facility Instrument Collection	https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2357	AV3_L2A_RFL_2357
NEON Spectrometer Orthorectified Surface Bidirectional Reflectance - Mosaic	https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP3.30006.002	DP3.30006.002

Related Resources

LP DAAC also develops and maintains additional resources, available at https://github.com/nasa/LPDAAC-Data-Resources. This landing repository provides general guides and tutorials, as well as links to mission-specific repositories that offer detailed guides, tutorials, how-tos, and scripts to help users find, access, and work with each mission’s data products.

GitHub Repository	Summary	Contents Description
AppEEARS Data Resources	How to use the Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS)	Tutorials, AppEEARS API, Direct S3 Access
AppEEARS QGIS Plugin	Browse and load cloud-optimized geotiff output files from AppEEARS directly into QGIS	QGIS Plugin
ECOSTRESS Data Resources	How to find, access, and work with ECOSTRESS data (The ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station)	Tutorials, Scripts, Direct S3 Access
EMIT Data Resources	How to find, access, and work with EMIT data (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation)	Tutorials, Scripts, Direct S3 Access
GEDI Data Resources	How to find, access, and work with GEDI data (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation)	Tutorials
HLS Data Resources	How to find, access, and work with HLS data (Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2)	Tutorials, Scripts, Direct S3 Access
LPDAAC Data Resources	How to find, access, and work with LPDAAC data	Tutorials, Scripts, Direct S3 Access
MODIS-VIIRS Data Resources	How to find, access, and work with MODIS and VIIRS data	Tutorials
VITALS	How to find and work with EMIT and ECOSTRESS data together	Tutorials

Contact Info

Email: LPDAAC@usgs.gov
Voice: +1-866-573-3222
Organization: Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)¹
Website: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/centers/lp-daac

¹Work performed under USGS contract 140G0126D0001 for NASA contract NNG14HH33I.