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Land Surface News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Land Surface.
Image captured on July 13, 2025, from the MSI instrument aboard ESA's Sentinel-2B satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
July 18, 2025
Join us on Wed., July 30 at 2:00 p.m. EDT (-04:00 UTC) to explore SWOT hydrology data collections of rivers and lakes, and to learn how to work with SWOT hydrology data using tools provided by both NASA's PO.DAAC and the USGS.
Webinar
July 18, 2025
In this Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting short course, learn how to access and work with National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and NASA airborne and field datasets.
Event
July 16, 2025
Join us for a two-day webinar covering the fundamentals necessary to work with NASA's high-spectral resolution land-based Earth observation data from NASA's EMIT, ECOSTRESS, and PACE missions.
Event
July 14, 2025
Image captured July 7, 2025, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
July 11, 2025
The AppEEARS QGIS Plugin enables users to browse completed requests from AppEEARS and load cloud-optimized GeoTIFF output files directly into QGIS.
News
June 23, 2025
Researchers from Cornell's eBird project used observations from amateur birdwatchers and NASA data to better understand the decline in avian populations throughout North America.
News
June 17, 2025
Image captured June 10, 2025, by the MODIS and AIRS instruments aboard the Aqua platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
June 13, 2025
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