The objective of this proposal is to fund a series of virtual & in-person planetary data training workshops during a 24-month period from july 2024 through june 2026 at our four institutions as well…

The objective of this proposal is to fund a series of virtual & in-person planetary data training workshops during a 24-month period from july 2024 through june 2026 at our four institutions as well as at two national meetings each year (e.g. geological society of america (GSA) connects meeting in the fall and another relevant annual meeting or conference such as lpsc to be determined in the spring or early-summer). These workshops which are based on the strengths of each of our institutions would focus on planetary data management planetary geographic information systems (GIS) training (e.g. jmars arcgis pro and open source GIS) ISIS3 for image processing and stereo photogrammetry (e.g. socet set and ames stereo pipeline for digital elevation model (DEM) production) and would be open to all members of the US planetary science community (and international scientists through virtual workshops). Our workshops are aimed at all career levels from undergraduate and graduate students to postdocs and early career scientists to established professional scientists. Rather than conduct a single week-long event each year at a specific location and at a discrete time of the year we are proposing to conduct a series of smaller virtual and in-person workshops that would be distributed throughout the 12-month period each year and would be distributed geographically across the united states to enable greater access. Both in-person and virtual workshops are included to further increase accessibility. Workshops are organized by institution as separate tasks and with separate budgets so that NASA can descope specific training if funding is limited without non-selection of the whole proposal.