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Terrestrial Hydrosphere Data Access and Tools

NASA data examine many characteristics of the liquid and frozen water and the dynamic processes they are part of across Earth’s landscape. Our datasets and tools help researchers translate these interconnected data points into actionable knowledge.

Terrestrial Hydrosphere Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
ISLSCP II Land and Water Masks with Ancillary Data 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31

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

Shapefile
ISLSCP II River Routing Data (STN-30p) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31

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

Shapefile
JERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar, 100-m Mosaics, South America: 1995-1996, R1 2 JERS-1 SAR 1995-01-01 to 1996-07-31

N: 13.0002 S: -19.9996 E: -48.0004 W: -82.0004

GeoTIFF
JPL GRACE and GRACE-FO Mascon Ocean, Ice, and Hydrology Equivalent Water Height Coastal Resolution Improvement (CRI) Filtered Release 06.3 Version 04 RL06.3Mv04 GRACE-FO, GRACE GRACE-FO MWI, GRACE-FO LRI, GRACE-FO ACC, GRACE-FO SCA, KBR, GRACE LRR, GRACE ACC, GRACE SCA 2002-04-04

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

0.5 Decimal Degrees x 0.5 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
JPL GRACE and GRACE-FO Mascon Ocean, Ice, and Hydrology Equivalent Water Height JPL Release 06.3 Version 04 RL06.3Mv04 GRACE-FO, GRACE GRACE-FO MWI, GRACE-FO LRI, GRACE-FO ACC, GRACE-FO SCA, KBR, GRACE LRR, GRACE ACC, GRACE SCA 2002-04-04

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

0.5 Decimal Degrees x 0.5 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
JPL TELLUS GRACE Level-3 Monthly Land Water-Equivalent-Thickness Surface Mass Anomaly Release 6.0 version 04 RL06v04 GRACE 2002-04-04 to 2017-10-18

N: 89.5 S: -89.5 E: 180 W: -180

1 Decimal Degrees x 1 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
JPL TELLUS GRACE-FO Level-3 Monthly Land Water-Equivalent-Thickness Surface Mass Anomaly Release 6.3 version 04 RL06.3v04 GRACE-FO GRACE-FO MWI, GRACE-FO LRI, GRACE-FO ACC, GRACE-FO SCA 2018-05-22

N: 89.5 S: -89.5 E: 180 W: -180

1 Decimal Degrees x 1 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
KMZ for ALOS PALSAR Radiometric Terrain Corrected Product 1 ALOS PALSAR 2006-03-23 to 2011-04-22

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

Lake Bathymetry Maps derived from Landsat and Random Forest Modeling, North Slope, AK 1 LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-9 OLI, OLI-2 2016-07-01 to 2018-08-31

N: 77.2626 S: 56.0894 E: -128.196 W: -177.469

COG
Lakes, Ponds, and Partial Inundation in the Yukon Kuskokwom Delta, AK, 2019-2023 1 PlanetScope, COMPUTERS PlanetScope, Computer 2019-05-01 to 2023-10-30

N: 63.4794 S: 58.422 E: -157.199 W: -168.023

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Terrestrial Hydrosphere Data Tools

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Tool Description Services
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
WISP The Water Information from Space (WISP) is an interactive dashboard for displaying satellite hydrology data. Monitoring Natural Events, Visualization
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