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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 Sort descending Version Platform Instrument Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
NISAR Provisional Range Doppler Wrapped Interferogram Product (Version 1) 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2025-10-01 to Present

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

HDF5, XML, YAML, PNG, KML, CSV, PDF
NISAR Radar Raw Signal Calibration Data (Version 1) 1 NISAR 2021-01-01 to Present

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

HDF5
NISAR Radar Raw Signal Science Data (Version 1) 1 NISAR 2021-01-01 to Present

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

HDF5
NISAR Urgent Response Level 1 Product 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2021-01-01 to Present

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

HDF5, XML, CSV, PDF, KML, YAML, PNG
NISAR Urgent Response Level 2 Product 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2021-01-01 to Present

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

HDF5, XML, CSV, PDF, KML, YAML, PNG
NISAR Urgent Response Radar Raw Signal Science Data 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2021-01-01 to Present

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

HDF5, XML, PDF, YAML
NISAR Validated Geocoded Pixel Offsets (Version 1) 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2025-10-01 to Present

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

HDF5, XML, YAML, PNG, KML, CSV, PDF
NISAR Validated Geocoded Polarimetric Covariance Product (Version 1) 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2025-10-01 to Present

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

HDF5, PNG, XML, PDF, CSV, KML, YAML
NISAR Validated Geocoded Single Look Complex Product (Version 1) 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2025-10-01 to Present

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

HDF5, PNG, XML, PDF, CSV, KML, YAML
NISAR Validated Geocoded Unwrapped Interferogram Product (Version 1) 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2025-10-01 to Present

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

HDF5, PNG, XML, PDF, CSV, KML, YAML
NISAR Validated Range Doppler Pixel Offsets (Version 1) 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2025-10-01 to Present

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

HDF5, XML, YAML, PNG, KML, CSV, PDF
NISAR Validated Range Doppler Single Look Complex Product (Version 1) 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2025-10-01 to Present

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

HDF5, XML, PNG, PDF, CSV, KML, YAML
NISAR Validated Range Doppler Unwrapped Interferogram Product (Version 1) 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2025-10-01 to Present

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

HDF5, XML, YAML, PNG, KML, CSV, PDF
NISAR Validated Range Doppler Wrapped Interferogram Product (Version 1) 1 NISAR L-SAR, S-SAR 2025-10-01 to Present

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

HDF5, XML, YAML, PNG, KML, CSV, PDF
NIVAL Mores Creek Summit Snow Depth, Canopy Height, and DTM from Airborne LiDAR V001 1 HELICOPTER LIDAR 2025-12-03 to 2026-04-04

N: 43.9748 S: 43.91365 E: -115.64244 W: -115.7305

GeoTIFF
NLDAS Mosaic Land Surface Model L4 Hourly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_MOS0125_H) at GES DISC 2.0 Mosaic-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-02 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Mosaic Land Surface Model L4 Monthly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_MOS0125_M) at GES DISC 2.0 Mosaic-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.124 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Mosaic Land Surface Model L4 Monthly Climatology 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_MOS0125_MC) at GES DISC 2.0 Mosaic-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1981-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Noah Land Surface Model L4 Hourly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_NOAH0125_H) at GES DISC 2.0 Noah-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-02 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Noah Land Surface Model L4 Monthly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_NOAH0125_M) at GES DISC 2.0 Noah-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Noah Land Surface Model L4 Monthly Climatology 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_NOAH0125_MC) at GES DISC 2.0 Noah-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1981-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Primary Forcing Data L4 Hourly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_FORA0125_H) at GES DISC 2.0 Forcing-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Primary Forcing Data L4 Monthly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_FORA0125_M) at GES DISC 2.0 Forcing-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Primary Forcing Data L4 Monthly Climatology 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_FORA0125_MC) at GES DISC 2.0 Forcing-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1981-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Secondary Forcing Data L4 Hourly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_FORB0125_H) at GES DISC 2.0 Forcing-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees

Land Surface Data Tools

Tool Sort descending Description Services
ASF MapReady Terrain-correct, geocode, and apply polarimetric decompositions to multi-pol SAR data Processing
FLOOD The FLOOD viewer facilitates the use and evaluation of LANCE flood products by allowing the user to browse globally and over time, and to compare to other flood products. Monitoring Natural Events, Search and Discovery, Visualization
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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