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## Pre-requisites:
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* if you have not already done so, you will need to 1) sign up for the [beta user program](terraref.org/beta) and 2) sign up and be approved for access to the the [sensor data portal](terraref.ncsa.illinois.edu/clowder) in order to get the API key that will be used in this tutorial
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described in this tutorial.
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* if you have not already done so, you will need to 1) sign up for the [beta user program](terraref.org/beta) and 2)
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sign up and be approved for access to the the [sensor data portal](terraref.ncsa.illinois.edu/clowder) in order to get
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the API key that will be used in this tutorial.
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The terrautils python package has a new `products` module that aids in connecting
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geostreams API. The list of returned sensor names could be something like the
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* flirIrCamera Datasets
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* IR Surface Temperature
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* RGB GeoTIFFs Datasets
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* stereoTop Datasets
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* scanner3DTop Datasets
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* Thermal IR GeoTIFFs Datasets
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## Getting a list of files
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## A Word of Caution
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The names of variables in this section don't necessarily match the ones in the section
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above. This is unintentinoal and is due to the legacy behind each of these approaches. The
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names are meaningful and consistent in their respective domains, but not between each other.
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The names and meanings of variables in this section don't necessarily match the ones in the section
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above and it may be easy to get them confused. The API queries the database directly and thereby reflects
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the database structure. This is the main reason for the naming differences between the API and the terraref
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For example, the Clowder API's use of the term *SENSOR_NAME* is equivalent to *site_name* above.
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