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Organizing your AOI and Land Cover Observations   Hello! My name is Sophia and I live in San Diego, California. I recently finished making all 37 observations for my AOI, which I did over the course of exactly one week. I took observations almost every day, spreading out my data-collecting, which I recommend if you start well before your data deadline so you don’t get too burnt out! To start, I generated my AOI grid. Make sure to look at your grid in satellite view to ensure that the vast majority of the points are accessible. Zoom into each point to see ...

It was great seeing all of the data that students collected for the Urban Heat Island Intensive Observation Period in December 2024. I decided to look at some of the data using a graphing tool called CODAP from the Concord Consortium. It is easy to use and makes some neat graphs fast.  First, I downloaded all of the surface temperature data from the GLOBE website for December using the ADAT system (Advanced Data Access Tool). There are other ways to get data from the GLOBE data base including the Vis system and API.  Second, I brought the data into CODAP and clicked on ...