Delivery of Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite data products will cease on November 1, 2026. Data users should transition now to alternative products from NOAA-21 and NOAA-20. Suomi NPP data announcement

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Wildland fire smoke is visible in this Suomi NPP VIIRS true color imagery, which was acquired on June 1, 2025

Viewing Smoke in FIRMS

FIRMS was used to track the spread of smoke plumes during the Canadian wildland fires in June 2025.

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June 17, 2025

Visualizing Earth Data on Demand: NASA's TiTiler-CMR Delivers Imagery Without the Wait

A new tool from NASA IMPACT offers a quick, flexible, and on-demand service that complements traditional pre-rendered imagery.

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June 9, 2025

This image shows flooding in Argentina with VIIRS data.

Monitor Floods Globally and in Near Real-Time With VIIRS

The new VIIRS near real-time product is already in use, and users are encouraged to explore this replacement option for MODIS-based flood products.

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June 2, 2025

Monthly MODIS burned area data for the month of August in 2024 (red), 2023 (green), and 2022 (blue) in the Banhine National Park in southern Mozambique.

Enhanced Tools for Interannual and Monthly Comparisons of Burned Area

The FIRMS burned area user interface allows users to simultaneously display and compare individual monthly burned area products as well as monthly products aggregated into annual datasets.

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May 20, 2025

FIRMS imagery shows the Hughes Fire active fire detections occurring during January 22, 2025 (red); Static Thermal Anomalies - Detections from the overnight hours of January 22-23 associated with the landfill to the southwest (cyan); and Static Thermal Anomalies - Mask layer (pink).

FIRMS Releases New Features to Identify Active Fires by Type

Users of NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) can now differentiate between fires caused by burning vegetation and fires from natural heat sources or industrial heat sources.

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March 7, 2025

This data visualization of chlorophyll concentration off Alaska and Russia is shaded in lighter greens (lower concentration) and darker greens (higher concentrations).

New Features Added to the Earth System Data Explorer

The second version of the Earth System Data Explorer data visualization tool uses Google Earth Engine and adds new resources for data exploration.

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Dec. 3, 2024

True color corrected reflectance image of Africa, Europe, and Asia from the VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-21 satellite

From MODIS to VIIRS: Continuing the Legacy

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) will help ensure continuity of Earth observations after the upcoming retirement of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).

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Nov. 1, 2024

From Onboarding to Fledging and Beyond—An Openscapes Journey

After learning how to migrate workflows to the cloud during onboarding, NASA Openscapes participants “fledge” to use their new skills in cloud-based scientific research.

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Sept. 17, 2024

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Viewing Smoke in FIRMS

Visualizing Earth Data on Demand: NASA's TiTiler-CMR Delivers Imagery Without the Wait

Monitor Floods Globally and in Near Real-Time With VIIRS

Enhanced Tools for Interannual and Monthly Comparisons of Burned Area

FIRMS Releases New Features to Identify Active Fires by Type

New Features Added to the Earth System Data Explorer

From MODIS to VIIRS: Continuing the Legacy

From Onboarding to Fledging and Beyond—An Openscapes Journey

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