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OCO2_Att·v11r·dataset

Which way the OCO-2 satellite was pointing (reprocessed)

OCO-2 Level 0 spacecraft attitude data, Retrospective Processing V11r (OCO2_Att) at GES DISC
land NASA GES_DISC Level 0
In plain English

What it measures. The exact direction the OCO-2 satellite was pointing during each orbit, recorded as a set of pointing angles.

How it's made. Generated from the satellite's telemetry as a Level 0 (earliest stage) product, in this reprocessed version that uses the full mission's calibration for slightly better quality.

How & where you'd use it. A behind-the-scenes input rather than a science result: it is essential for pinpointing exactly where on Earth the satellite's carbon-dioxide measurements came from.

What's measured

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › PLATFORM CHARACTERISTICS › ATTITUDE CHARACTERISTICS

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2014-07-02 → 2022-03-01
  • Measured byOCO-2 (OCO-2)
  • Processing levelLevel 0
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

Version 11r is the current version of the data set. Older versions will no longer be available and are superseded by Version 11r. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is the first NASA missiondesigned to collect space-based measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxidewith the precision, resolution, and coverage needed to characterize theprocesses controlling its buildup in the atmosphere. The OCO-2 project uses the LEOStar-2 spacecraft that carries a single instrument. It incorporates three high-resolution spectrometers that make coincident measurements ofreflected sunlight in the near-infrared CO2 near 1.61 and 2.06 micrometers and inmolecular oxygen (O2) A-Band at 0.76 micrometers . Each band has 1016 spectralelements.This product contains pointing angles of the spacecraft for each orbit.It is generated using the following input data:+ APID 20 telemetry+ Orbit Boundary File.It is essential in generating the Geolocations of the science data.This is the retrospective processing where the calibration data is estimated from the full timeseries of data (before, during, and after the measurements), and is expected to be of slightly higher quality.

Get the data

oco2_att_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="OCO2_Att",
    version="11r",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from GES_DISC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.