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Terra Data Access and Tools
Data collected by NASA’s Terra satellite are integral for efforts to understand changes among Earth's interconnected systems. Explore Terra datasets and learn more about relevant data tools.
Datasets
| Dataset Sort descending | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Version | Data State | Data Format | Related Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global Forest Cover Change Forest Cover Change Multi-Year Global 30m V001 | ETM+, TM, ASTER, MODIS | 1990-01-01 to 2004-12-31 | 001 | COMPLETE | GeoTIFF | Forest Harvesting and Engineering |
| Global Forest Cover Change Surface Reflectance Estimates Multi-Year Global 30m V001 | ETM+, TM, ASTER, MODIS | 1984-03-12 to 2011-12-25 | 001 | COMPLETE | GeoTIFF | Reflectance |
| Global Forest Cover Change Tree Cover Multi-Year Global 30m V003 | ETM+, TM, ASTER, MODIS | 2000-01-01 to 2015-12-31 | 003 | COMPLETE | GeoTIFF | Forest Management |
| Global Forest Cover Change Water Cover 2000 Global 30m V001 | ETM+, TM, ASTER, MODIS | 1999-06-29 to 2003-01-14 | 001 | COMPLETE | GeoTIFF | Total Surface Water |
| Global MODIS and FLUXNET-derived Daily Gross Primary Production, V2 | MODIS, Computer | 2000-03-01 to 2020-08-01 | 2 | COMPLETE | netCDF-4 classic | Primary Production, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Gross Primary Production (gpp), Reflectance |
| Global Monthly Mean Leaf Area Index Climatology, 1981-2015 | Computer, MODIS, AVHRR | 1981-08-01 to 2015-08-31 | 1 | COMPLETE | netCDF-4 classic | Leaf Area Index (LAI), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) |
| GPM Ground Validation Satellite Overpasses IFloodS V1 | GPS | 2013-04-01 to 2013-06-30 | 1 | COMPLETE | KML - PNG | Satellite Orbits/Revolution |
| Gross Primary Production Maps of Tidal Wetlands across Conterminous USA, 2000-2019 | MODIS, Computer | 2000-03-05 to 2019-11-17 | 1 | COMPLETE | GeoTIFF | Wetlands, Wetlands, Wetlands, Coastal, Gross Primary Production (gpp) |
| 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 |
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Terra 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 | |
| LP DAAC Data Prep Scripts | Access a collection of R and Python scripts to download data and perform basic data processing functions. | ||
| MISR Browse Tool | The MISR Browse Tool allows easy access to images from the MISR instrument. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| MISR Level 3 Data Browser | The MISR Level 3 Data Browser provides visualizations of select parameters available in the MISR Level 3 global data products. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| MISR Orbit Tool | The MISR Orbit Tool is an interactive interface for converting dates to MISR Orbit number and Orbit numbers to dates. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, 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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