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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 Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
SMAP_L1A_RADAR_QA_V001 1 SMAP SAR 2015-02-12 to 2021-11-04

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

ERS-1 Level 1 Product 1 ERS-1 SAR 1991-08-08 to 1997-09-29

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

L2 Daily Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) from MetOp-B GOME-2, 2013-2021 1 METOP-B GOME-2 2013-04-01 to 2021-06-07

N: 89.5944 S: -89.7694 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
High Mountain Asia 2 m DEM, Surface Velocity, and Lagrangian Surface Mass Balance for Select Debris Covered Glaciers V001 1 GEOEYE-1, WORLDVIEW-1, WORLDVIEW-2, WORLDVIEW-3 GIS, WV60, WV110 2012-12-23 to 2017-12-22

N: 28.39 S: 28.2 E: 85.77 W: 85.51

,

N: 28.12 S: 27.85 E: 87 W: 86.64

2 Meters x 2 Meters GeoTIFF
Arctic Vegetation Plots at Frost Boil Sites, North Slope, Alaska, 2000-2006 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS 2000-08-16 to 2006-07-30

N: 70.3811 S: 69.1469 E: -147.991 W: -148.994

CSV
BOREAS RSS-07 Regional LAI and FPAR Images From Ten-Day AVHRR-LAC Composites 1 NOAA-11 AVHRR 1994-04-09 to 1994-09-10

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

Binary
MASTER: Airborne Science, California-Nevada, Fall 2005 1 NASA ER-2 MASTER 2005-10-19 to 2005-12-09

N: 40.9799 S: 34.8735 E: -112.5 W: -123.75

multiple
Classification of Global Forests for IPCC Aboveground Biomass Tier 1 Estimates, 2020 1 COMPUTERS Computer 2020-01-01 to 2020-12-31

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

COG
Russian Boreal Forest Disturbance Maps Derived from Landsat Imagery, 1984-2000 1 Terra, LANDSAT-5 MODIS, TM, ETM+ 1984-06-01 to 2000-08-31

N: 65.3219 S: 43.7625 E: 138.627 W: 30.9828

GeoTIFF
Global Organic Soil Carbon and Nitrogen (Zinke et al.) 1 FIELD SURVEYS BALANCE, COLORIMETERS 1940-01-01 to 1986-12-31

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

multiple
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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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