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Some tips on searching for data using Earthdata Search.

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While Earthdata Search's free text search field will attempt to understand free text queries. e.g. "land surface temperature over Uganda for the last 10 years" -- it sometimes doesn't return useful results.

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1. Check the following checkboxes on the left:
   Keywords | Land Surface | Land Temperature
   Keywords | Surface Radiative Properties | Land Surface Temperature
   Keywords | Surface Thermal Properties | Land Surface Temperature
2. Enter temporal criteria:  click the clock button next to the free text field, and enter Start: 2008-01-01 00:00:00 and Stop: Today.
3. Enter spacial criteria:  click the compass button next to the free text field, and draw a bounding rectangle around Uganda.

Ordering options

You can download multiple collections, individual collections, selected granules or individual granules.

To download, click one of the collections returned in the search results window to view the collection's granules.  

In granule view, you'll see the granules of the collection that fit your spacial and temporal constraints.  You can further narrow the granules shown using the "Granule Search" field, the "Filter granules" control, and the date slider.

Then decide how you want to download:

• To quickly download an individual granule, click the "Download single granule data" button (the down arrow icon) beside the granule. 
• To quickly customize just one granule (useful if the collection supports data customizations like subsetting), click the "Configure and download single granule data" button (the gear icon) beside the granule.
• To download all granules shown, click the "Download Data" button on the right hand side of the screen.

After clicking "Download Data" or "Configure and download single granule data," you will see one or more of the following options, depending on what the data provider allows for that collection:

1) Order Data | Direct Download
Allows you to download data as-is now from your browser, either by accessing a list of download links, by downloading a file of data links for offline processing, or by downloading a script that can be used with curl or wget. 

2) Order Data | Stage for Delivery
Allows you to submit a request for a staged delivery.  
You will receive an email with download instructions when the data is ready.

3) Order Data | Customize Product
Allows you to select custom service options to be performed (e.g. subsetting, reprojection, etc.)
You will receive an email with download instructions when the data is ready.

To download multiple collections, use the + button to add collections to a "project" (similar to a shopping cart), and then click the "My Project" button.

Filtering granules

In granule view, you can filter the granules selected using any combination of the following:

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