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NASA’s King Air (left) and Falcon (right), the two aircraft used in the Aerosol Cloud Meteorology Interactions over the Western Atlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) airborne field campaign.

ACTIVATE Open Data Workshop 2024

Join NASA's Aerosol Cloud Meteorology Interactions Over the Western Atlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) team for a workshop about this airborne field campaign and its data.

Event

Nov. 4, 2024

Location of NASA ICESat-2 (ATL13) data (Inland Water Product) from April 25, 2023 over Lake Powell, Utah, United States, viewed in OpenAltimetry.

Laser Altimetry Applications for a Changing World: Explore ICESat-2 Data

This is the first in a five-part webinar series to introduce NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation-2 (ICESat-2) platform and the platform's data, tools, and applications.

Webinar

Oct. 28, 2024

Image of North and South America with colors indicating predicted wind speed

Prithvi-weather-climate: Advancing Our Understanding of the Atmosphere

An in-depth look at the development, attributes, and (many) benefits of this foundation model for applying artificial intelligence (AI) to weather and climate.

Blog

June 27, 2024

UNBOUND for Coastal Issues Data Workshop Report Released

This Understanding Needs to Broaden Outside Use of NASA Data (UNBOUND) workshop connected coastal zone groups with key NASA data.

News

March 7, 2024

Image of a methane plume overlaid on a topo map; highest methane concentrations are in southeast corner (yellow area); rest of plume is low concentrations (purple)

NASA EMIT Mapping Methane Plumes: Data Tutorial Workshop

This 2-hour virtual workshop on March 14, 2024, demonstrates how to use methane data products from NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission.

Event

Feb. 7, 2024

ocean front showing sand dunes cut by storms and water channeling through

Workshop: UNBOUND for Coastal Issues (UNBOUND CI)

Understanding Needs to Broaden Outside Use of NASA Data for Coastal Issues (UNBOUND CI) is a multi-session virtual workshop for data practitioners involved in coastal zone management, flood risk management, sea-level rise, and subsidence issues to help make NASA Earth science data products more discoverable and suitable for addressing issues in coastal zones.

Event

Aug. 8, 2023

This image from the NOAA-20 satellite shows dust from northwest Africa blowing over the Canary Islands on January 14, 2023.

Meet EMIT, the Newest Imaging Spectrometer

Data from the EMIT instrument help scientists better understand the role mineral dust plays in heating and cooling the atmosphere.

Feature Article

May 26, 2023

Brown base image with green areas indicating trees becoming more dense toward the bottom of the image. Blue lines show annual rainfall values.

NASA Counts 9.9 billion Trees Across Sub-Saharan Africa using Commercial Satellite Data

The study, which utilized data made available by NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program, was led by NASA’s Compton Tucker and provides new insight into how carbon stocks can be mapped at the level of individual trees.

News

March 9, 2023

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