Tutorials

This page contains links to tutorials we have developed for working with NERC-ARF data. Most of these tutorials were created as part of the NERC-ARF Workshop, which is held annually. If you are interested in attending a future workshop please contact us.

Data

Data for all the tutorials can be downloaded as a ​3.2 GB zip file. If you wish to download data from other areas you can browse the NERC-ARF archive at ​CEDA (login required).

Hyperspectral data processing

APL Basic Tutorial

• ​Hyperspectral tutorial (PDF). Covers the basic use of APL for hyperspectral processing as well as some useful commands using GDAL.
• ​Owl worksheet (PDF). Covers mapping Owl data using APL.

APL Advanced Tutorial

• Advanced APL usability - command line, ​(data)

TuiView

• TuiView tutorial. Covers viewing hyperspectral data in the open source TuiView software.

Empirical Line Calibration using ENVI

• ​Practical from FSF workshop (PDF), ​(data; zip file)
• Guide for collecting field spectra

LiDAR processing

LiDAR DEM Tutorial

• ​Creating a DEM from LiDAR (GitHub) Covers using the NERC-ARF DEM scripts (​download scripts)

Full Waveform Tutorial

• ​Full waveform tutorial (PDF) - covers extracting waveforms from a from LAS 1.3 files and fitting Gaussian peaks.