R Notebooks for the CoastWatch Satellite Training Course

These files are the R Notebooks for the CoastWatch Satellite Course R Tutorials

Exercise book contents

The Notebooks contain step-by-step code examples for extracting data from the ERDDAP data servers using the rxtracto R library.

• Extract data within a boundary
  In this exercise, you will download data from within the boundaries of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) and visualize the data in a map.

• Matchups satellite data to an animal tracks
  This exercise you will extract satellite data around a set of points defined by longitude, latitude, and time coordinates like that produced by an animal telemetry tag, a ship track, or a glider tract.

• Create timeseries from satellite data
  This excercise extracts a time series of monthly satellite chlorophyll data for the period of 1997-present from four different monthly satellite datasets.

• Matchup satellite to buoy data
  In this exercise you will extract buoy data from ERDDAP tabular data and then extract satellite data that is coincident with the buoy data.

• Define a marine habitat
  In this exercise you will plot the thermal boundary of loggerhead sea turtles using satellite sea surface temperature.

• Reprojecting satellite and buoy data
  In exercise, we will obtain cruise track data from a research ship, in-situ buoy data, and satellite sea surface temperature data from the PolarWatch ERDDAP data server and then plot all three types of the data on a map in an Alaska Albers projection.

• Accessing projected datasets
  This excercise demonstrates techniques for working with sea ice data served in polar stereographic map projection.

Downloading

Download the enitre r_code repository. Subfolders contain images and CSV files used in the Notebook code.

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