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False-color reflectance image of burned area from the Franklin Fire, Malibu, California on December 18, 2024 from the MSI instrument aboard ESA's Sentinel-2B platform.

Worldview Image of the Week

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Aftermath of the Franklin Fire, Malibu, California

Image captured on Dec 18, 2024, by the MSI instrument aboard ESA's Sentinel-2B platform.

A satellite image of Earth shows blue water, tan land, green shading along the coastline, and wispy white clouds.

Event

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Synergistic Applications of VSWIR Hyperspectral and Thermal Infrared Data in Support of Future Earth Science Satellite Missions

Submit your abstract to this International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) session, which focuses on the benefits of fusing visible to short-wave infrared (VSWIR) hyperspectral and thermal infrared data.

image of chart bars overlayed on Earth map projection

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U.S. State, Tribe, and Territory Workers: We Need Your Feedback

Take a brief survey to help NASA serve you better as users (or potential users) of Earth observation data for decision-making.

The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument collected its “first light” measurements of nitrogen dioxide air pollution over North America on August 2, 2023. This image shows TEMPO measurements of nitrogen dioxide over Southern California at 12:14 pm EDT.

News

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TEMPO V03 Products Achieve Provisional Validation Status

More than a dozen Level 1, 2, and 3 data products from NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) Version 03 collection are now available at provisional maturity.

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High Nitrogen Dioxide Levels from the Franklin Fire and Los Angeles

Worldview Image of the Week

This image shows the globe color coded to indicate its surface type. Most of the image is black to indicate calm water, the ocean, or dry sand. Rough water is depicted in shades of purple. The continents are shaded in green where there is vegetation, and white where there are urban areas or little vegetation.

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Sentinel-1 Radar Products Certified to Plug-and-Play Metadata Standard

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Image composite of percent sea Ice Concentration of Antarctica on December 1, 2024 from the AMSR-2 instrument aboard the GCOM-W1 platform.

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Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration

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A visualization of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data over northern Mongolia on October 20, 2023, from the ECOSTRESS ECO_L2T_STARS V002 product.

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Earth Science Data Roundup: December 2024

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From discovery to visualization, our data tools simplify and streamline your research.

Worldview

Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data.

Vertex

Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.

Giovanni

Giovanni is a web application for accessing, visualizing, and analyzing Earth science remote sensing data without downloading the data.

Open Science

We empower an inclusive, collaborative scientific process through the open sharing of data and knowledge. Our open data, services, and software policies ensure that data are fully available to any user for any purpose.

Earth Science Data Systems 2023 Fiscal Year Highlights

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This is a chart showing over 3.5 billion files distributed in FY23 with a data volume of over 100 petabytes.

This is a chart showing the data archive growth projection to soar to over 500 petabytes by the year 2029.

2.7 billion

files distributed to end users

5+ million

distinct data and service users

100+ petabytes

of Earth science data available

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NASA’s massive archive of Earth science data are free and open to any user for any purpose—but accessing, analyzing, visualizing, and applying these data requires a certain degree of knowledge about Earth observation data and how it is collected and optimized.

Check out our catalog of learning resources to better understand data basics, explore geographic information systems (GIS), and level up your skills in areas ranging from data in the cloud to using a representational state transfer (REST) interface.

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Aftermath of the Franklin Fire, Malibu, California

Synergistic Applications of VSWIR Hyperspectral and Thermal Infrared Data in Support of Future Earth Science Satellite Missions

U.S. State, Tribe, and Territory Workers: We Need Your Feedback

TEMPO V03 Products Achieve Provisional Validation Status

High Nitrogen Dioxide Levels from the Franklin Fire and Los Angeles

Sentinel-1 Radar Products Certified to Plug-and-Play Metadata Standard

Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration

Earth Science Data Roundup: December 2024

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Earth Science Data Systems 2023 Fiscal Year Highlights

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