Access to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Earth Sensing Imaging Spectroradiometer (DESIS) data
NASA's Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program provides U.S. Government access to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Earth Sensing Imaging Spectroradiometer (DESIS), a hyperspectral remote sensor aboard the International Space Station. Improved access to data products from commercial systems, reduced latency acquisitions, and improved derivation of new research and operational products will enable new opportunities for research and applications across thematic areas.
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Access to High-Resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
This activity provides access to two 2.0 m Digital Elevation Model (DEM) products: a near-Global Mosaic Earth DEM and DEM strips where new data was acquired for detailed change detection. Improved access to data products from commercial systems, reduced latency acquisitions, and improved derivation of new research and operational products will enable new opportunities for research and applications across thematic areas.
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Air Quality Forecasts and Distributed Pandora Sensors
This activity provides measurements of air quality relevant to human health in international urban and domestic rural locations that lack the advanced measurement capabilities that are provided in domestic urban locations. It will also provide historical analyses and 5-day air quality forecasts at US embassy locations, helping to better understand, anticipate, and mitigate human exposure to harmful air pollution.
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Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG)
The Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG) was established to facilitate faster access to airborne and field campaign data through airborne data management and stewardship. ADMG developed and currently maintains NASA's Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science Investigations (CASEI), a solution for search, browse, discovery, and the provision of contextual details critical for the re(use) of airborne and field campaign observations collected over a half century; this enables efficient findability, access, and increased scientific return on agency investments in these irreplaceable data as Earth's systems and processes undergo an era of substantial variability and change.
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Animal Tracking (Internet of Animals)
This study, named Internet of Animals, aims to monitor animal movement from space. Tracking animal movement from space can inform various conservation efforts and can facilitate the early identification of global change events, providing critical information to mitigate its impact on ecosystems and human societies.
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Atmospheric Composition using Goddard Earth Observing System-5 (GEOS-5)
Through the assimilation of aerosol and trace gas concentrations from satellites and ground stations, this activity will provide global, three-dimensional gridded atmospheric composition distributions for the period 2008-2018, improving the Goddard Earth Observing System-Composition Forecasting (GEOS-CF) system’s representation of atmospheric composition. Benefits range from historical reanalysis of trends and outlier events to improved forecasts for air quality monitoring and pollution regulation.
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Broader Access to Planet Data
NASA's CSDA continues to provide U.S. federal civil agencies, including National Science Foundation (NSF)-affiliated scientists and funded research partners access to Planet imagery through the current Expanded Planet End User License Agreement (EULA). Improved access to data products from commercial systems, reduced latency acquisitions, and improved derivation of new research and operational products would enable new opportunities for research across thematic areas. Planet high-resolution and stereo imagery have many applications including mapping trees and canopy elevation, monitoring land cover characteristics and change, infrastructure, and shoreline change.
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Broader Access to Spire Data
NASA's CSDA continues to provide access to Global Navigation Satellite Systems-Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) data through the current U.S. Government EULA. Improved access to data products from commercial systems, reduced latency acquisitions, and improved derivation of new research and operational products will enable new opportunities for research and applications across thematic areas.
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Data Curation for Discovery (DCD) Solution
The Data Curation for Discovery (DCD) project focuses on design and implements a systematic plan to assist other agencies in incorporating NASA Earth observation data into their workflows. The DCD team maintains several web pages and data portals to ensure that Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) data products and associated capacity-building resources are available to SNWG stakeholders and user communities.
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Discovery and Access of Commercial Data
Agencies will be able to discover both NASA and commercial data with the same search tool (i.e. Earthdata Search) and will be able to access both datasets subject to the terms of the EULA. Improved access to data products from commercial systems, reduced latency acquisitions, and improved derivation of new research and operational products will enable new opportunities for research and applications across thematic areas.
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Global Algal Blooms Assessment Network (GABAN)
Mitigation and avoidance of algal blooms require information on the location and extent of algal blooms at high temporal resolution, so this activity strives to implement an automated algal bloom hotspot product based on satellite data from multiple ocean color sensors (MODIS-Aqua, VIIRS NPP, JPSS-1,2, OLCI-Sentinel, and PACE; commercial systems could be considered).
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Global Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS)-derived Vegetation Indices Suite (VI)
Nine indices including Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI), Modified Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (MSAVI), Normalized Difference Moisture Index (NDMI), Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR), Normalized Burn Ratio-2 (NBR2), Triangular Vegetation Index (TVI), and Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) will be generated for the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) archive (December 2015 for Sentinel-2 and April 2013 for Landsat) and will continue forward with future HLS acquisitions as part of the HLS production system. Similar to HLS data, the HLS-VI products benefit from 2-3 day latency and provide key data for global monitoring of vegetation health, soil properties, and water levels.
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Global NASA/Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Soil Moisture
The global NASA/Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) soil moisture product will provide a well- calibrated and validated soil moisture product with 200-meter resolution globally (approximately 500-m for the Sahara due to challenges of measuring soil moisture in dry sand). These soil moisture maps may be useful for estimation of crop yields, crop hazard alerts due to drought and flood, forecasting of food demands, forest fire prediction, water supply management, and other natural resource activities.
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Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS)
Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) is derived from re-projecting top-of-atmosphere reflectance from Landsat 8/9 and Sentinel-2 A/B onto a common grid, resulting in two surface reflectance products (L30=Landsat and S30=Sentinel-2, 30m products). Through this harmonization, the product enables global observations of the land every 2–3 days, which is pivotal for improved monitoring of land surface changes, disaster response, and agricultural management.
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High-Resolution North America NASA/Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Data
This activity involved the installation of a new downlink station that increased the dedicated downlink capacity of NASA/Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) by 9 Tbits/day. It enables the highest resolution land imaging mode for North America and US Territories, supporting measurement needs for land monitoring and providing better imagery for disaster response, crop assessment, infrastructure stability, and more.
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Low Latency Freeboard and Ice Thickness Products over the Great Lakes
This activity produced reduced-latency versions of existing Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) products, now discoverable through NASA's Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth observations (LANCE) and available at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). This effort helps provide accurate ice mapping for safe commercial shipping and fishing, which are crucial to the economic interests of the Great Lakes region.
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Low Latency Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) Products
This activity will explore the ability to reduce the latency of HLS data from 3-4 days to 6 hours. Considering the widespread usage of HLS among Federal agencies, a low latency version of HLS will enhance the ability to respond to wildfires, earthquakes, droughts, oil spills, etc.
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Merged Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-Radio Occultation (RO)/Atmospheric Sounder Measurements for Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) Products
The Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) solution provides accurate 3D profiles of temperature and water vapor in the 2 km of the atmosphere closest to the surface by combining hyperspectral sounder data with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-Radio Occultation (RO) data into a merged global product. This data are essential for weather and air quality forecasting as well as climate change projections and a variety of applications such as aviation, communications, defense operations and renewable energy.
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Multi-Sensor Ocean Surface Winds Product
This activity aims to combine wind retrievals from multiple sensors to generate gridded wind speed data every ~6 hours, providing observations of near-surface winds over the data-sparse global oceans. Gridded wind data will provide key inputs to atmospheric and oceanic models and contribute to the forecasting of hurricanes and other marine hazards.
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NGA Product Support
This activity supports users requesting archived data as well as new acquisitions provided through the NGA's NextView license, via the CSDA program. Improved access to data products from commercial systems, reduced latency acquisitions, and improved derivation of new research and operational products will enable new opportunities for research and applications across thematic areas.
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Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA) Near-Global Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWx)
The near-global Dynamic Surface Water eXtent (DSWx) data product suite uses imagery from 5 optical and radar satellites to map the spatial extent of surface water on land at 30 m resolution every few days. This activity contributes to enabling flood and drought monitoring, habitat assessment, wetland preservation, and tracking of water use.
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Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA) Near-Global Surface Disturbance (DIST)
The near-global Surface Disturbance (DIST) data product uses imagery from 7 optical and radar satellites to identify where and when the land surface has undergone disturbance such as vegetation loss from processes such as fires, landslides, drought, urban growth, deforestation, and mining, at 30 m resolution every few days.
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Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA) North America Land Surface Displacement (DISP)
The North America Surface Displacement (DISP) data product uses imagery from 3 radar satellites to identify where and when the land surface has moved from processes such as sinkholes, land subsidence, landslides, permafrost motion, volcanic unrest, earthquakes, and more, at <30 m resolution every 6, 12, or 24 days. These types of outputs are critical for hazard response and monitoring of infrastructure stability.
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Radiation and Clouds
The NASA Satellite ClOud and Radiation Property retrieval System (SatCORPS) Radiation and Clouds solution provides global high spatiotemporal resolution satellite observations that are needed to improve the representation of clouds and their effects in Earth System Models for energy and related sectoral infrastructure planning.
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Sea Surface Salinity with Sea Ice Mask
This activity enabled the addition of a variable/flag in the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)- Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) product that states the fraction of sea ice pixels within SMAP satellite footprints. With this addition, operational users can improve their ocean forecasting systems to support efforts for advancing the blue economy.
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Targeted Remote Sensing Training
This activity aims to provide targeted training to data users in the use of satellite data to inform their decision-making processes.
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Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) Near Real-Time Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) and Enhanced Products
This activity will include developing a new hourly sulfur dioxide (SO2) concentration product from Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) while also producing additional trace gas measurements (SO2, ultraviolet aerosol optical depth (UVAOD), aerosol height, water (H2O), ultraviolet B radiation (UVB), glyoxal (CHOCHO), and bromine monoxide (BrO)). The solution will enable real-time monitoring of volcanic plumes as well as science-quality aerosol and trace gas products to support air quality forecasting, modeling, and regulation.
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Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)/Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) Near Real-Time Products
Hourly Near Real-Time (NRT) air quality products for nitrogen dioxide (NO2), formaldehyde (HCHO), and O2-O2 cloud will be produced along with a Level 1B product that will enable NOAA to produce a NRT aerosol product. This activity will provide low-latency L1b, NO2, HCHO and clouds data that will support air quality modeling and help local, state, and federal air quality monitoring groups to alert the public to poor air quality and enforce air pollutant regulations.
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Vertical Land Motion Product (VLM)
The Vertical Land Motion (VLM) product will combine results from the North America Surface Displacement Product with precise vertical and horizontal geodetic control from NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey and the National Science Foundation to generate a suite of products that track the magnitude of vertical land surface motions for the program of record for Sentinel-1 (launched in 2014) and NISAR (anticipated launch early 2025) along with generating annual and monthly (possibly biweekly) products. Identifying and tracking such land surface elevation change is vital for separating coastal subsidence and sea level rise impacts, hazard mitigation, and infrastructure stability/fragility assessment and modernization.
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Water Quality Product
This activity supported NASA's Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG) in the production of analysis ready ocean color data products using the Sentinel-3A/B Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI). Ocean color data provides crucial insights into marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change and ocean acidification.
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