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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
Pre SWOT Hydrology Global Lake/Reservoir Storage Time Series V2 2 OSTM/JASON-2 POSEIDON-3 1992-09-25 to 2019-12-23

N: 66 S: -66 E: 180 W: -180

0.001 Decimal Degrees x 0.001 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
Pre SWOT Hydrology Global Lake/Reservoir Surface Inland Water Area Extent V2 2 Aqua, Terra MODIS 2000-02-18 to 2016-10-15

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

0.002 Decimal Degrees x 0.004 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
Pre SWOT Hydrology Global Lake/Reservoir Surface Inland Water Height GREALM V.2 2 OSTM/JASON-2 POSEIDON-3 1992-09-25 to 2019-12-23

N: 66 S: -66 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
Pre SWOT Hydrology GRRATS Daily River Heights and Storage Version 2 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

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

netCDF-4
Pre SWOT Hydrology GRRATS Virtual Station River Heights Version 2 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

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

250 Meters x 500 Meters netCDF-4
Pre-ABoVE: Ground-penetrating Radar Measurements of ALT on the Alaska North Slope 1 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 1 B-200 AVIRIS-NG 2015-05-06 to 2016-10-18

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 1 UAV UAVSAR 2016-10-16 to 2016-10-17

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 1 King Air AirSWOT 2015-05-08 to 2015-05-11

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 1 B-200 AirSWOT 2015-05-08 to 2015-05-11

N: 29.7276 S: 29.45 E: -91.3583 W: -91.5083

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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