OPERA
Data Tutorials
Background
The Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA) product suite is designed to collect data from satellite radar and optical instruments to generate three products:
- a near-global Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWx) product suite
- a near-global land-surface Disturbance (DIST) product suite
- a North America land-surface Displacement (DISP) product suite
Only DSWx products will be distributed through PO.DAAC. More information can be found on PO.DAAC’s OPERA webpage.
Data Resources & Tutorials
Imagery Exploration
Surface Water Extent Worldview StoryMap
SOTO by Worldview - explore OPERA imagery in a GUI
Video Tutorial: Exploring OPERA Surface Water Extent Data in NASA Worldview
Search & Download
Via Graphical User Interface:
Find/download OPERA data on Earthdata Search
Via Command Line - PO.DAAC subscriber/downloader example:
podaac-data-subscriber -c OPERA_L3_DSWX-HLS_V1 -d ./data/OPERA_L3_DSWX-HLS_V1 --start-date 2023-04-04T00:00:00Z -e .tifSee how to Download/Subscribe for more information on how to use the PO.DAAC subscriber/downloader.
Workflow tutorials: Access & Visualization
AWS Cloud: OPERA Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWx) Data - How to search for, access, visualize, and mosaic OPERA data over lake Powell while working in the cloud.
Local Machine: OPERA Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWx) Data - How to search for, download, visualize, and mosaic OPERA data over lake Powell while working on a local machine.
GIS workflows
StoryMap: Exploring Water Surface Extent with Satellite Data
OPERA ArcGIS Toolbox - GitHub repository with three geoprocessing tools: OPERA Granule Download, OPERA Granule Filter, and OPERA Raster Mosaic
Additional Resources
OPERA Applications GitHub Notebooks - check out the leafmap examples!