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Aqua Data Access and Tools
Data collected by NASA’s Aqua satellite are integral for efforts to characterize the Earth's water cycle. Explore Aqua datasets and learn more about relevant data tools.
Datasets
| Dataset Sort descending | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Version | Data State | Data Format | Related Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPM Ground Validation Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS) Flood Maps IFloodS V1 | SSM/I, SSMIS, AMSR-E, TMI, AMSU-B | 2013-03-26 to 2013-06-30 | 1 | COMPLETE | netCDF-4 - ASCII | Floods, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate |
| GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks Cloud Classification System (PERSIANN-CCS) IFloodS | VISSR-METEOSAT, AMSR-E, DPR, AMSU-B, VISSR-GMS, SSM/I, GOES-8 Imager, GOES-10 Imager, PR, TMI | 2013-04-01 to 2013-07-01 | 1 | COMPLETE | ASCII - netCDF-4 | Total Precipitable Water, Precipitation Rate |
| GPM Ground Validation TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) IFloodS V7 | AMSR-E, AMSU-B, SSM/I, TMI, SSMIS | 2013-04-01 to 2013-06-30 | 7 | COMPLETE | Binary - netCDF-4 | Liquid Precipitation, 3 And 6 Hour Precipitation Amount |
| GPM Ground Validation TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) IPHEx V7 | AMSR-E, TMI, SSMIS, SSM/I, AMSU-B | 2014-05-01 to 2014-06-16 | 7 | COMPLETE | netCDF-4 | Liquid Precipitation |
| Greenness Trends and Carbon Stocks of Mangrove Forests Across Mexico, 2001-2015 | MODIS, Computer | 2001-01-01 to 2015-12-31 | 1 | COMPLETE | multiple | Estuary, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Coastal, Soil Organic Carbon (SOC), Land Use/Land Cover |
| High Mountain Asia 1 km MODIS-AIRS Gap-Filled Ground Temperatures and Permafrost Probability Maps, 2003-2016 V001 | AIRS, MODIS | 2003-01-01 to 2016-12-31 | 1 | COMPLETE | netCDF-4 | Land Surface Temperature, Permafrost, Permafrost Temperature |
| High Mountain Asia 12 km Modeled Estimates of Aerosol Transport, Chemistry, and Deposition Reanalysis, 2003-2019 V001 | MODIS, NOT APPLICABLE, MOPITT | 2003-01-01 to 2019-08-31 | 1 | COMPLETE | netCDF-4 classic | Aerosol Concentration, Black Carbon, Deposition, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation |
| High Mountain Asia MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth V001 | MODIS | 2000-02-01 to 2019-03-31 | 1 | COMPLETE | ASCII | Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent |
| High Resolution Global Contiguous SIF Estimates from OCO-2 SIF and MODIS, Version 2 | MODIS, Computer, SPECTROMETERS | 2014-09-01 to 2020-07-31 | 2 | COMPLETE | netCDF-4 classic | Solar Induced Fluorescence, Chlorophyll, Primary Production, Leaf Characteristics |
| INTEX-A AIRMAP data | NOT APPLICABLE, FILTERABLE DEPOSIT JAR SAMPLER, DC8 DROPSONDES | 2004-07-05 to 2004-07-05 | 1 | COMPLETE | ASCII | Aerosols, Air Quality |
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Aqua Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIRMS | The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity. | Access, Visualization | |
| FLOOD | The FLOOD viewer facilitates the use and evaluation of LANCE flood products by allowing the user to browse globally and over time, and to compare to other flood products. | Monitoring Natural Events, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| LDOPE | Access a range of software tools designed to manipulate, visualize, and analyze MODIS and VIIRS data. | Analysis, Visualization | |
| Similarity Search | Similarity Search uses machine learning to make it easier for scientists to comb through millions of images and locate sets of similar examples. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| TESViS | The Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services Global Subsets Tool provides on-demand, customized subsets of several terrestrial ecology data products. | Visualization, Subsetting | |
| Worldview | Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events |
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