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Land Surface Data Access and Tools

NASA data provide key measurements of Earth’s land, allowing researchers to accurately understand its composition, processes, uses, and interactions. Our datasets and tools help researchers translate these interconnected data points into actionable knowledge.

Land Surface Data Tools

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Tool Description Services
ASF MapReady Terrain-correct, geocode, and apply polarimetric decompositions to multi-pol SAR data Processing
Earthdata Search Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings. Search and Discovery, Access, Cataloging, Cloud Computing, Downloading
Giovanni Giovanni is a web application for accessing, visualizing, and analyzing Earth science remote sensing data without downloading the data. Search and Discovery, Analysis, Access, Visualization, Downloading, Subsetting
RTC Stack Processor The radiometric terrain correction (RTC) stack processor tool facilitates time-series analysis of such phenomena as flooding events, deforestation, or glacier retreat. Analysis, Processing, Search and Discovery, Visualization
VEDA NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities. Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing
Vertex Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, 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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Land Surface Datasets

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Dataset Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Spatial Extent Data Format
OPERA Coregistered Single-Look Complex from Sentinel-1 validated product (Version 1) Sentinel-1A, Sentinel-1B, Sentinel-1C C-SAR 2014-06-15 to Present HDF5, XML
OPERA Land Surface Disturbance Alert from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 product (Version 1) Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B, Sentinel-2C, LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-9 Sentinel-2 MSI, OLI 2022-01-01 to Present GLOBAL LAND N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 COG
OPERA Land Surface Disturbance Alert from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 provisional product (Version 0) Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B, Sentinel-2C, LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-9 Sentinel-2 MSI, OLI 2022-01-01 to 2024-02-26 GLOBAL LAND N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 COG
OPERA Land Surface Disturbance Annual from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 product (Version 1) Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B, Sentinel-2C, LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-9 Sentinel-2 MSI, OLI 2023-01-01 to Present GLOBAL LAND N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 COG
OPERA Radiometric Terrain Corrected SAR Backscatter from Sentinel-1 Static Layers validated product (Version 1) Sentinel-1A, Sentinel-1B C-SAR 2014-04-03 to Present N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 GeoTIFF, XML
OPERA Radiometric Terrain Corrected SAR Backscatter from Sentinel-1 validated product (Version 1) Sentinel-1A, Sentinel-1B, Sentinel-1C C-SAR 2016-04-14 to Present N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 HDF5, GeoTIFF, XML
OPERA Surface Displacement from Sentinel-1 validated product (Version 1) Sentinel-1A, Sentinel-1B C-SAR 2016-07-01 to Present netCDF-4, XML, PNG, Zarr
Pantropical Forest Height and Biomass from GEDI and TanDEM-X Data Fusion ISS, G-LiHT, TDX GEDI, LIDAR, TDX-1 2011-01-06 to 2021-08-18 GABON, FRENCH GUIANA, MEXICO, AMAZONIA N: 33 S: -15.005 E: 15.005 W: -119 COG
Post-fire Recovery of Soil Organic Layer Carbon in Canadian Boreal Forests, 2015-2018 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, CHN ANALYZERS, CORING DEVICES 2015-06-11 to 2018-08-24 NORTHWEST TERRITORIES N: 68.3256 S: 59.7883 E: -104.194 W: -132.671 CSV
Pre-ABoVE: Active Layer Thickness and Soil Water Content, Barrow, Alaska, 2013 FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS Computer, GPR 2013-08-10 to 2013-08-15 N: 71.388 S: 71.027 E: -155.772 W: -157.266 CSV
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