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.

Fires in Bolivia

Image captured on 22 August 2021, by the VIIRS instrument, aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA 20 satellite.

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.

User Profile: Professor Laura Kurgan

Data from NASA’s SEDAC helps researchers like Professor Laura Kurgan study the ways in which urban spaces are structured, shaped, and transformed by conflict, and identify the ideological assumptions behind many data visualization projects.

NASA Expands Contract with Planet Labs Inc. for Satellite Imagery

The contract expansion significantly broadens the availability of Planet imagery distributed by NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program.

TROPESS Project Builds on Legacy Instruments' Success to Provide Continuous Records of Atmospheric Composition

NASA's TROPESS project releases a suite of data products offering measurements of atmospheric trace gasses based on combined radiances from several satellite instruments.