Welcome to the GEDI Practical Repository

This repository is for the Advanced Remote Sensing GEDI Practical at UGent.

What You'll Learn

In this practical, you will:

• Gain an understanding of what GEDI is and how it works.
• Access GEDI data through Earthdata Search.
• Execute Python commands to read and visualize GEDI data.
• Interpret graphs generated from GEDI data.

This repository contains all the necessary files to successfully complete the practical.

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Resources

📌 02_Colab.md

This guide includes tips and tricks for using Google Colab, the recommended environment for this practical.

📌 03_Earthdata.md

This document provides a step-by-step guide on:
✔️ Creating an Earthdata account (mandatory for the practical).
✔️ Searching for GEDI data within a specific region of interest (ROI) (optional for exploration).

📌 05_Questions.md

This file contains all the questions from the Jupyter notebook in one place, making it easier to review and answer them.

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How to Get Started

1. Open the notebooks

   • The notebooks are marked in order (0X_notebookname.file). With this currect README file being the first. If you follow all files one by one, everything should make sense.

2. Set up your data

   • Save the DATA folder to your Google Drive under:

     My Drive/Colab Notebooks/GEDI_course/DATA
     

3. Follow the L2B notebook instructions

   • Launch the L2B notebook in Google Colab.
     • Google Colab may show the following error. Simply click "Authorize."
     • You will now see the error below. Click "OK."
     • Now click on the link indicated by the arrow below.
     • The L2B notebook should now be open in Google Colab, and you can proceed. If you encounter any issues, feel free to ask the assistant for help.
   • Read the information, execute the code, and try to solve the 🧐 Questions to Think About.
   • If you want to see all questions in one place, check out Questions.md.

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Good luck! 🍀