# Best practices for accessing Landsat data in notebook?

**URL:** <https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/best-practices-for-accessing-landsat-data-in-notebook/3030>\
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**Created:** [December 24, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/best-practices-for-accessing-landsat-data-in-notebook/3030 "2022-12-24T13:06:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Demetris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pangeo.io/demetris/32/1813_2.png) [@Demetris](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/Demetris)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/best-practices-for-accessing-landsat-data-in-notebook/3030/1 "2022-12-24T13:06:56Z")

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Hi all,

**What are best practices for accessing Landsat data of a particular region in a notebook workflow?**

I am working on a Pythia Cookbook for Landsat data. [See preview here](https://projectpythia.org/landsat-ml-cookbook/README.html).

Thank you!!

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**Author:** ![TomAugspurger](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pangeo.io/tomaugspurger/32/21_2.png) [@TomAugspurger](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/TomAugspurger)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/best-practices-for-accessing-landsat-data-in-notebook/3030/2 "2022-12-24T16:07:51Z")

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Several places, including USGS I believe, offer STAC catalogs and APIs for accessing Landsat scenes. We have an example for the Planetary Computer at [Planetary Computer](https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/landsat-c2-l2#Example-Notebook)

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**Author:** ![Demetris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pangeo.io/demetris/32/1813_2.png) [@Demetris](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/Demetris)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/best-practices-for-accessing-landsat-data-in-notebook/3030/3 "2023-02-22T10:51:36Z")

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@TomAugspurger , thanks for the guidance. I created a couple of notebook tutorials on [accessing](https://projectpythia.org/landsat-ml-cookbook/notebooks/1.0_Data_Ingestion-Planetary_Computer.html) and [using](https://projectpythia.org/landsat-ml-cookbook/notebooks/3.0_Spectral_Clustering_PC.html) Landsat data from Planetary Computer!

There is still work to be done but let me know if you have any feedback so far. Thank you 🙂