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An ASTER image showing part of the San Quintín Glacier, the largest in southern Chile’s Northern Patagonia Icefield.

GLIMS Database Advances Glacier Monitoring from Space

The Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Glacier Database provides timely data on more than 200,000 glaciers around the world.

Feature Article

Apr 8, 2025

$ATL24 data for Marathon, Florida, illustrating the automatic detection and processing of ICESat-2 bathymetry. The top panel shows the location of the ATL24 segment extending from Vaca Key Bight south approximately 4 km. The bottom panel shows the ATL24 bathymetry profile from the shoreline to depths of 12 m. Aqua points correspond to detected sea surface, blue to bathymetry, and white to low-confidence bathymetry. Refraction correction has been applied to all bathymetric points.$

Laser Altimetry Applications for a Changing World: Working with ICESat-2 Bathymetry Data

Join us on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at 2 p.m. EDT (-04:00 UTC) to learn how to discover, access, and work with a new Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) bathymetric data product, ATL24.

Webinar

Mar 24, 2025

A piece of a larger ECOSTRESS image showing the impact of center-pivot irrigation in the state of Kansas.

Earth Science Data Roundup: March 2025

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

News

Mar 6, 2025

ICESat-2 30-meter gridded canopy height map across the contiguous US based upon ICESat-2 canopy heights and ancillary Landsat, LANDFIRE and topographic variables for 2020.

Laser Altimetry Applications for a Changing World: Working with ICESat-2 Land and Vegetation Height Data

Join us on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at 2 p.m. EST (-05:00 UTC) to learn how to work with NASA's ICESat-2 land and vegetation height data. A live demonstration will showcase the SlideRule Earth web service which provides on-demand science data processing of ICESat-2 and other geospatial data.

Webinar

Jan 31, 2025

False-color corrected reflectance image overlaid with a snow cover index of snow across the Southern US on 22 January 2025 from the VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-20 satellite

Rare Snowfall Across Southern U.S.

Image captured on Jan 22, 2025, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 platform.

Worldview Image of the Week

Jan 23, 2025

Image composite of percent sea Ice Concentration of Antarctica on December 1, 2024 from the AMSR-2 instrument aboard the GCOM-W1 platform.

Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration

Image composite from Dec 1, 2024, captured by the AMSR2 instrument aboard the GCOM-W1 platform.

Worldview Image of the Week

Dec 5, 2024

A visualization of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data over northern Mongolia on October 20, 2023, from the ECOSTRESS ECO_L2T_STARS V002 product.

Earth Science Data Roundup: December 2024

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in November 2024.

News

Dec 4, 2024

Image of colored squares over the Arctic; wavelength scale on right

Earth Science Data Roundup: November 2024

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in October 2024.

News

Nov 4, 2024

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GLIMS Database Advances Glacier Monitoring from Space

Laser Altimetry Applications for a Changing World: Working with ICESat-2 Bathymetry Data

Earth Science Data Roundup: March 2025

Laser Altimetry Applications for a Changing World: Working with ICESat-2 Land and Vegetation Height Data

Rare Snowfall Across Southern U.S.

Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration

Earth Science Data Roundup: December 2024

Earth Science Data Roundup: November 2024

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