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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 Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
LBA-ECO LC-04 Satellite/Census-Based 5-Minute Land Use Data, Amazonia: 1980 and 1995 1 MODELS, FIELD SURVEYS Computer, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1995-01-01 to 1995-01-01

N: 6 S: -21 E: -45 W: -80

multiple
SMAPVEX08 PALS Brightness Temperature Data V001 1 AIRCRAFT PALS 2008-09-29 to 2008-10-13

N: 39.09 S: 38.93 E: -75.55 W: -76.25

350 Meters x 1100 Meters ASCII
BOREAS Level-0 TIMS Imagery: Digital Counts in BIL Format 1 C-130 TIMS 1994-04-16 to 1994-09-17

N: 56.25 S: 53.42 E: -97.23 W: -106.32

Binary
BOREAS Level-4c AVHRR-LAC Ten-Day Composite Images: Surface Parameters 1 NOAA-11 AVHRR 1994-04-11 to 1994-09-10

N: 61.01 S: 48.83 E: -93.29 W: -115.41

BMP
SAFARI 2000 Land Cover from AVHRR, 8-km, 1984 (DeFries et al.) 1 NOAA-10, NOAA-9, NOAA-11 AVHRR 1984-01-01 to 1984-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

multiple
CAR Clams Chesapeake Lighthouse Aircraft Ocean Measurements L1 V1 (CAR_CLAMS_L1C) at GES DISC 1 Convair-580 CAR 2001-07-10 to 2001-08-02

N: 38.7007 S: 35.9617 E: -70.2831 W: -76.5156

SMAPVEX19-22 Massachusetts Vegetation Optical Depth V001 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS DIELECTRIC PROBE, HUMIDITY SENSORS, PRESSURE SENSORS, RADIOMETERS, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE, THERMOMETERS 2019-04-28 to 2019-10-17

N: 42.54 S: 42.54 E: -72.17 W: -72.17

CSV
SENTINEL-1B_SINGLE_POL_GRD_HIGH_RES 1 Sentinel-1B C-SAR 2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Trends of Thermal, Wetness, and Vegetative Change in the Circumpolar Arctic 1 COMPUTERS Computer 1980-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 90 S: 30 E: 180 W: -180

multiple
CAR LEADEX Arctic Sea Ice and Tundra Radiation Measurements L1 V1 (CAR_LEADEX_L1C) at GES DISC 1 C-131A CAR 1992-04-07 to 1992-04-19

N: 73.9717 S: 69.4298 E: -142.975 W: -155.433

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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
OB.DAAC File Search Utility Find and download instrument data archived at OB.DAAC using mission parameters or filename patterns, including support for wildcard searching on partial filenames. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
Ocean Color Level 3 and 4 Browser The Ocean Color Level 3 and 4 Browser allows users to view, download, or order global composites at various spatial and temporal scales (level 3) or get results from analyses of lower-level data (level 4). Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
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
SeaDAS Sea, earth, atmosphere Data Analysis System (SeaDAS) is a comprehensive image analysis package for the processing, display, analysis, and quality control of ocean color data. Analysis, Visualization, Processing
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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