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close up of water coverage from the OPERA DSWx HLS tutorial

New OPERA DSWx-HLS GIS Image Services Now Available

Streamline access and analysis of OPERA surface water extent with GIS services while avoiding downloading and managing data locally.

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July 8, 2026

This map shows TEMPO observations of nitrogen dioxide plumes over Los Angeles County on January 8, 2025, during the Palisades and Eaton Fires.

TEMPO Data Available as ArcGIS Image Services

Several pollutants measured by TEMPO are available as ArcGIS image services, including nitrogen dioxide vertical column troposphere, formaldehyde vertical column, ozone total column, and cloud fraction.

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April 1, 2026

New PACE Imagery Services in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

11 PACE data products are now available through NASA's Earthdata Geographic Information Systems imagery services and discoverable via Esri's ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.

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Feb. 9, 2026

a collage of imagery inside a lens graphic saying GIS Day 2025

Celebrate GIS Day 2025

Explore how NASA uses geospatial science and technology to provide a multidimensional view of our complex and beautiful planet.

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Nov. 19, 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

Hurricane Ida is shown in bright swirling greens, yellows, and oranges against a dark background

Find Earthdata in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

The atlas now features NASA Earth science data formatted specifically for geographic information systems (GIS) users.

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Jan. 7, 2025

This image shows the globe color coded to indicate its surface type. Most of the image is black to indicate calm water, the ocean, or dry sand. Rough water is depicted in shades of purple. The continents are shaded in green where there is vegetation, and white where there are urban areas or little vegetation.

Sentinel-1 Radar Products Certified to Plug-and-Play Metadata Standard

The radiometric terrain corrected synthetic aperture radar data are NASA’s first to meet Committee on Earth Observations Satellites specifications.

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Dec. 11, 2024

Against a bright yellow and orange background, a dark shape with a glowing light-yellow center dominates the center of this data visualization of Hawaii climate.

Celebrate GIS Day 2024

To celebrate GIS Day, take a peek at these illuminating examples of NASA Earth Science leveraging Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to understand our home planet.

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Nov. 20, 2024

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