New ESDIS Team Members Ensure Users Can Access and Use the Ever-Growing Volumes of NASA Earth Science Data

Expertise and skill of new ESDIS hires will help the project manage the growth of EOSDIS data collections and enhance users’ experience

Fires in Sakha Republic, Russia

Image captured on 12 September 2021, by the MODIS instrument, aboard the Aqua satellite.

Nine Space-Agency Partners Join NASA to Expand Global Participation in 10th Annual International Space Apps Challenge

Registration is now open for this year’s virtual hackathon, which will take place October 2-3

SeaHawk Mission Proves CubeSats Are a Viable Option for Collecting Credible Scientific Data

With its high-resolution HawkEye instrument, SeaHawk has shown CubeSats are an inexpensive and timely way to obtain high-quality ocean color data—and it tilts!

User Profile: Dr. Robert Wright

Data available from NASA’s LP DAAC helps scientists like Dr. Robert Wright develop systems for autonomously detecting volcanic eruptions from space.

ORNL DAAC Releases First GEDI Level 4 Dataset Offering Predictions of Aboveground Biomass Density

New dataset provides the first high-resolution 3D aboveground biomass density estimates for tropical and temperate forests around the globe

Webinar: Toward Analysis Ready Data—Programmatically Discover, Access, and Subset Daymet V4 Data with Python and ArcGIS

Event Date: August 31, 2021

The Daymet dataset provides long-term, continuous, gridded estimates of daily weather and climatology variables across North America. Join us for an introduction to the Daymet Version 4 Data Collection and for a demonstration on how to programmatically discover and subset Daymet data to a region and time period of interest.

Satellites Help Improve Crop Yields in India

Satellites provide crucial information for researchers to monitor and help improve agricultural productivity in India.

Announcing the EO Dashboard Hackathon Winners

Over 4,300 people competed in the Earth Observation (EO) Dashboard Hackathon. Find out which eight projects are Global Winners.

2021 Summer Interns Deliver on Important Projects Despite Continued Pandemic Restrictions

ESDIS Project, CSDA Program, and EOSDIS DAAC interns advance critical NASA initiatives and gain valuable workplace experience while working remotely

The IMPACT of Summer Interns

Summer interns supporting NASA’s Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) helped advance several IMPACT machine learning initiatives.

Measuring the World’s Croplands

The Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) collection provides detailed maps of agricultural croplands around the world at 30-meter spatial resolution.