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Fifth OPERA Stakeholder Engagement Workshop

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA) project is hosting a half-day virtual workshop on Thu Sept. 11, 2025, to offer product updates, previews, and more.
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First PREFIRE Datasets Released

These Level 1, 2, and 3 datasets from the PREFIRE mission will allow researchers to study polar processes and variations with greater precision.

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Earthdata Search

Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings.
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Earthdata GIS

Earthdata GIS is a resource for distributing cloud-native, GIS-ready NASA Earth science data and services, including over 200 raster and feature geospatial services as well as resources such as thematic applications and ArcGIS StoryMaps.
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GUARDIAN

The GNSS-based Upper Atmospheric Realtime Disaster Information and Alert Network (GUARDIAN) is a near real-time (NRT) ionospheric monitoring tool for natural hazards warning.

Open Science

We empower a collaborative scientific process through the open sharing of data and knowledge. Our open data, services, and software policies ensure that data are fully available to any user for any purpose.

Earth Science Data Systems 2024 Fiscal Year Highlights

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This bar chart and line graph shows total data volume and data files distributed by year for fiscal year 2024.
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+4.5 billion

files distributed to end users

8+ million

distinct data and service users

128+ petabytes

of Earth science data available