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A screen capture from the USGS's Water Information from SPace (WISP) application that shows USGS water gauges and global water monitoring sites.

USGS Releases WISP Dashboard

The Water Information from SPace (WISP) dashboard brings together data from NASA’s SWOT satellite and USGS streamgages in a user-friendly application.

Blog

July 30, 2025

This is an image of infrared brightness temperatures showing Hurricane Mitch on October 26, 1998, at 18:00 UTC. Cloud tops reached frigid temperatures of 196 K, indicating intense convective activity and likely overshooting tops at 16 km altitude. The hurricane’s track is overlaid, with the deepest red symbol marking a central pressure of 905 mb. Mitch remains one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, with more than 9,000 lives lost, primarily from flooding in Honduras and Nicaragua.

Over 25 Years of Global Infrared Data Now Available

The  Climate Prediction Center (CPC) 4 km Infrared (IR) dataset archive now extends back to January 1998, offering over 25 years of high-resolution infrared observations and continuing into the present.

News

June 20, 2025

ICEYE satellite in orbit over an erupting volcano.

NASA CSDA Program Vendor Focus—ICEYE US

Learn more about the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program vendor ICEYE US and how to discover, access, and work with ICEYE's high-resolution SAR products.

Webinar

April 15, 2025

False-color corrected reflectance image overlaid with flood information of the Midwest and Southeast US on 10 April 2024 from the MODIS instrument aboard the Terra satellite

Flooding in the Midwest and Southeast U.S.

Image captured on Apr 10, 2025, by the MODIS instrument aboard the Terra platform.

Worldview Image of the Week

April 11, 2025

FIRMS image of fires over southeast Asia along with aerosol index data

Use NASA Earth Observations and Tools for Wildfire Monitoring and Management

An upcoming training offered by NASA's ARSET program explores how to use FIRMS to track wildland fire activity and its effects.

News

April 9, 2025

A visualization of COWVR wind speed and direction data during a bomb cyclone in November 2024.

COWVR and TEMPEST V10 Datasets Available in First Public Release

The Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) and Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) datasets are the first from the Space Test Program - Houston 8 (STP-H8) mission that aims to test low-cost, light-weight instruments designed for weather applications.

News

Jan. 17, 2025

This rectangular image shows the location of satellite-based fire detection targets overlaid on visible imagery of the Los Angeles area landscape. In the center of the image over Pacific Palisades, CA, are nearly 30 pink, light purple, and purple squares showing the location of suspected fires.

Why Do Fires on NASA's Maps Sometimes Look Bigger Than They Really Are?

Satellite-based maps offer quick first alerts and approximate locations of potential wildfires that are then precisely tracked and fought by teams on the ground.

Feature Article

Jan. 13, 2025

This image shows Hurricane Milton’s storm path between October 5-10, 2024 using Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Level 1B Brightness Temperature and International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship database from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) datasets.

Examining Hurricane Milton's Milestones with NASA's GES DISC Datasets

Join us on January 29 at 2PM ET (-05:00 UTC) to learn how to access and use MERRA-2, GPM, TROPICS, and LDAS data provided by NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) to investigate Hurricane Milton's milestones.

Webinar

Jan. 10, 2025

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