NASA GLOBE Cloud GAZE Test Dataset

NASA GLOBE Community science project Leveraging Online and User Data through GLOBE And Zooniverse Engagement, or CLOUD GAZE is a NASA funded pilot project aimed to help NASA better understand the effect clouds are having on Earth’s climate. The CLOUD GAZE project is a collaboration between two giants of citizen science: The GLOBE Program and the Zooniverse online platform and is funded through NASA’s Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program. The CLOUD GAZE citizen science project characterizes cloud properties from sky photographs sent in through GLOBE Clouds ground observations. The GLOBE Clouds/CLOUD GAZE team at NASA Langley Research Center extracts cloud properties from sky photographs submitted to the GLOBE Program using the Zooniverse online platform. The team produces datasets from three sources: ground-cloud observations from The GLOBE Program collocated with NASA/NOAA satellite data and the CLOUD GAZE cloud cover and cloud type characterizations. The datasets are for cloud type worldwide investigations and serve as training sets for machine learning. This data is provided as CSV files. NASA GLOBE CLOUD GAZE Data Description The data obtained from the Zooniverse, NASA Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC), and The GLOBE Program are free of charge for use in research, publications, and commercial applications. When data from The Zooniverse, The GLOBE Program, and NASA LaRC are used in a publication, we request this acknowledgment be included, "These data were obtained from the Zooniverse online platform, the GLOBE Program and NASA Langley Research Center." Please include such statements, either where the use of the data or other resource is described, or within the Acknowledgements section of the publication.