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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 Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Spatial Extent Data Format
Aboveground Biomass High-Resolution Maps for Selected US Tidal Marshes, 2015 Sentinel-1A, LANDSAT SENTINEL-1 C-SAR, ETM+ 2015-08-01 to 2015-09-01 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA N: 47.1174 S: 25.092 E: -69.9261 W: -122.734 GeoTIFF
Aboveground Biomass, Landcover, and Degradation, Kalimantan Forests, Indonesia, 2014 FIELD SURVEYS, Airplane, MODELS STEEL MEASURING TAPE, LIDAR, Computer 2014-10-18 to 2014-11-30 SOUTHEASTERN ASIA, INDONESIA N: 8 S: -5 E: 120 W: 108 multiple
ACTIVATE Merged MODIS and MERRA-2 Dataset SATELLITES, MERRA-2 MODIS, Computer 2013-01-01 to 2022-06-30 NORTH AMERICA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ATLANTIC OCEAN, NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, BERMUDA ICARTT
AfriSAR LVIS L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product V001 AIRCRAFT, B-200, C-130, DC-8, G-V, HU-25C, P-3B, RQ-4 ALTIMETERS, LASERS, LVIS 2016-02-20 to 2016-03-08 GABON N: 1 S: -2 E: 12 W: 8 ASCII
AfriSAR: Canopy Structure Derived from PolInSAR and Coherence TomoSAR NISAR tools UAV UAVSAR 2016-02-25 to 2016-03-08 N: 0.61 S: -2.07788 E: 11.8642 W: 9.16944 GeoTIFF
AfriSAR: Gridded Forest Biomass and Canopy Metrics Derived from LVIS, Gabon, 2016 MODELS, B-200 Computer, LVIS 2016-02-20 to 2016-03-08 GABON N: 0.631722 S: -2.29494 E: 12.0244 W: 9.17929 multiple
AfriSAR: Polarimetric Height Profiles by TomoSAR, Lope and Rabi Forests, Gabon, 2016 UAV UAVSAR 2016-02-25 to 2016-02-28 N: 0.100091 S: -2.08153 E: 11.859 W: 9.67202 HDF5
AfriSAR: Rainforest Canopy Height Derived from PolInSAR and Lidar Data, Gabon B-200, COMPUTERS, UAV LVIS, Computer, UAVSAR 2016-02-27 to 2016-03-08 N: 0.239961 S: -0.347461 E: 11.8303 W: 9.28806 GeoTIFF
Airborne Hyperspectral Reflectance Indian Cave Nebraska Multi-Day 1 m Airplane MULTI-SPECTRAL 2019-09-06 to 2022-08-05 NEBRASKA ENVI
Airborne Hyperspectral Reflectance L1 Tallgrass Prairie Preserve Oklahoma Multi-Day 1 m Airplane MULTI-SPECTRAL 2020-08-03, 2021-07-31, 2022-07-23 OKLAHOMA ENVI
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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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