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OPERA Vegetation Disturbance Status layer from 18 August 2025 showing burned area in shades of yellow to red as a result of the Gifford Fire, CA.

Vegetation Disturbance from the Gifford Fire

Image for August 18, 2025, derived from OPERA's Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 Land Surface Disturbance data.

Worldview Image of the Week

Aug. 28, 2025

A part of a larger screen capture from the OpenAltimetry user interface showing ICESat orbit tracks (lines) and data acquisition points (dots).

Earth Science Data Roundup: August 2025

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in July 2025.

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Aug. 13, 2025

True-color reflectance image of the island of Uvea (Wallis) of Wallis and Futuna captured on 13 July 2025 by the MSI instrument aboard the Sentinel-2B satellite

Uvea, Wallis and Futuna

Image captured on July 13, 2025, from the MSI instrument aboard ESA's Sentinel-2B satellite.

Worldview Image of the Week

July 18, 2025

Fundamentals to Use Hyperspectral and Thermal NASA Earth Observations

Join us for a two-day webinar covering the fundamentals necessary to work with NASA's high-spectral resolution land-based Earth observation data from NASA's EMIT, ECOSTRESS, and PACE missions.

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July 14, 2025

Simplifying Geospatial Data Workflows with NASA's AppEEARS

The USGS EROS User Experience Webinar Series is hosting a free virtual AppEEARS webinar.

Webinar

July 10, 2025

AppEEARS QGIS Plugin Now Available

The AppEEARS QGIS Plugin enables users to browse completed requests from AppEEARS and load cloud-optimized GeoTIFF output files directly into QGIS.

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June 23, 2025

wetland and coastal distribution of bird data over North America

New Data in Action: Citizen Science and MODIS Data Reveal Patterns of Bird Population Change

Researchers from Cornell's eBird project used observations from amateur birdwatchers and NASA data to better understand the decline in avian populations throughout North America.

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June 17, 2025

Image of the OPERA Land Surface Disturbance imagery displaying confidence levels of vegetation loss at Grampian National Park, Australia after a bushfire

New Worldview Tour Story on OPERA’s Land Surface Disturbance Product

Explore OPERA’s near-global land surface disturbance at 30-meter resolution.

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June 13, 2025

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LP DAAC News

Vegetation Disturbance from the Gifford Fire

Earth Science Data Roundup: August 2025

Uvea, Wallis and Futuna

Fundamentals to Use Hyperspectral and Thermal NASA Earth Observations

Simplifying Geospatial Data Workflows with NASA's AppEEARS

AppEEARS QGIS Plugin Now Available

New Data in Action: Citizen Science and MODIS Data Reveal Patterns of Bird Population Change

New Worldview Tour Story on OPERA’s Land Surface Disturbance Product

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