Use Cases
These Use Cases highlight what folks are doing with STELLA.
From Desert Flowers to Future Frontiers: How Three UCSB Students Put NASA’s STELLA-Q2 to the Test
Three UC Santa Barbara students field-tested NASA's $200 STELLA-Q2 spectrometer against a high-end industry standard in the Anza-Borrego Desert. Their hands-on project validated the affordable, open-source tool's potential for environmental monitoring while providing invaluable real-world experience in remote sensing and instrument calibration.
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Building Tomorrow’s Earth Science Workforce, One Spectrum at a Time
COASTWISE (Community Observations and Analysis using Spectroscopic Techniques and Wetlands Imaging to foster Stewardship of the Environment) -making Earth observation science accessible for twenty students are building spectrometers, collecting data from wetland plants, and discovering a career landscape they never knew existed.
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