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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 Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Spatial Extent Data Format
Pre SWOT Hydrology Global Lake/Reservoir Surface Inland Water Area Extent V2 Aqua, Terra MODIS 2000-02-18 to 2016-10-15 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 netCDF-4
Pre SWOT Hydrology Global Lake/Reservoir Surface Inland Water Height GREALM V.2 OSTM/JASON-2 POSEIDON-3 1992-09-25 to 2019-12-23 GLOBAL N: 66 S: -66 E: 180 W: -180 netCDF-4
Pre SWOT Hydrology GRRATS Daily River Heights and Storage Version 2 OSTM/JASON-2, TOPEX/POSEIDON, ENVISAT, JASON-3, JASON-1, ERS-2 POSEIDON-3, ALT (TOPEX), RA-2, POSEIDON-3B, POSEIDON-2, ALTIMETERS 1992-04-06 to 2018-04-20 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 netCDF-4
Pre SWOT Hydrology GRRATS Virtual Station River Heights Version 2 OSTM/JASON-2, ERS-1, ENVISAT, JASON-3, JASON-1, ERS-2 POSEIDON-3, ALTIMETERS, RA-2, POSEIDON-3B, POSEIDON-2 1992-04-06 to 2018-04-20 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 netCDF-4
Pre-ABoVE: Ground-penetrating Radar Measurements of ALT on the Alaska North Slope FIELD INVESTIGATION GPR, GPS, SOIL DEPTH PROBE 2014-08-10 to 2014-08-15 N: 69.15 S: 68.4 E: -148.7 W: -149.5 CSV
Pre-Delta-X: AVIRIS-derived Total Suspended Solids Maps for MRD, LA, USA, 2015-2016 B-200 AVIRIS-NG 2015-05-06 to 2016-10-18 LOUISIANA N: 29.8749 S: 29.2896 E: -90.7103 W: -91.567 GeoTIFF
Pre-Delta-X: L1 UAVSAR Single Look Complex and Interferograms, MRD, LA, USA, 2016 UAV UAVSAR 2016-10-16 to 2016-10-17 LOUISIANA N: 29.7582 S: 29.3562 E: -91.0577 W: -91.622 multiple
Pre-Delta-X: L2 AirSWOT Water Surface Elevations, Atchafalaya Basin, LA, USA, 2016 King Air AirSWOT 2015-05-08 to 2015-05-11 LOUISIANA N: 29.8653 S: 28.9819 E: -90.4475 W: -91.6022 multiple
Pre-Delta-X: L3 AirSWOT-derived Water Level Profiles, Wax Lake Outlet, LA, USA, 2015 B-200 AirSWOT 2015-05-08 to 2015-05-11 LOUISIANA N: 29.7276 S: 29.45 E: -91.3583 W: -91.5083 CSV
Pre-Delta-X: Lidar-derived Water Level Profiles in the Wax Lake Outlet, LA, USA, 2016 B-200, FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS Riegl LMS-Q1560, STREAM GAUGES 2016-10-16 to 2016-10-19 LOUISIANA N: 29.743 S: 29.479 E: -91.3571 W: -91.485 CSV
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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
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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