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Mississippi River Delta Organic Carbon Stocks

Tidal wetlands are a substantial global sink of organic carbon stocks. This image shows estimated soil carbon stocks in the Mississippi River delta in Louisiana. Cooler colors (blue/green) indicate higher soil carbon concentrations.

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NASA Carbon Monitoring System

NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) seeks to characterize, quantify, understand, and predict the evolution of global carbon sources and sinks through improved monitoring of carbon stocks and fluxes. CMS uses the full range of NASA satellite observations and modeling/analysis capabilities.

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Fires and smoke in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Image captured on 17 March 2019, by the MODIS instrument, on board the Aqua satellite.

New Update to SEDAC’s Gridded Population of the World (GPW)

The most recent GPW update brings new maps and greater utility to SEDAC’s flagship data collection.

Webinar - ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next-Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration from the International Space Station

Event Date: March 28, 2019

NASA's ECOSTRESS Mission studies how plants use water by measuring their temperature from space. Join us to learn more about ECOSTRESS mission measurements, data and tools!

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Tracking a volcanic plume reaches new heights, faster.

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The ECOSTRESS, GEDI, and OCO-3 Earth observing missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will help scientists better understand Earth systems.

Introducing Worldview Snapshots

Worldview Snapshots is an easy-to-use application for rapidly producing images from daily MODIS and VIIRS global imagery.

The EOSDIS Update - Winter 2018-2019 Quarterly Newsletter is now online!

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Webinar - ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next-Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration from the International Space Station

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NASA's ECOSTRESS Mission studies how plants use water by measuring their temperature from space. Join us to learn more about ECOSTRESS mission ...

EOSDIS Data News - 03/22/2019

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GES DISC NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) released the following datasets: Ozone Mapping and ...

New version available: Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors

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The Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors, Version 4 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data ...

Temporary hold on production of C6 MODIS Land Surface Temperature (MOD11/MYD11) suite of products

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Users of C6 MODIS Land Surface Temperature (MOD11/MYD11) suite of products are hereby notified that the production of different C6 M*D11 products ...

EOSDIS Data News - 03/15/2019

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GHRC DAAC NASA's Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) released the following dataset from the Global ...

Latest Update to Global Gridded Population Data Available Via Web Map Service

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The latest update to the Gridded Population of the World data collection, GPW version 4.11, provides access to more than 100 interactive map layers...

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