The Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) community requested discovery and access to commercial data through NASA’s Earthdata Search web interface. This would serve to consolidate the discovery of remote sensing data provided by various vendors to the United States (U.S.) government.
NASA will implement this SNWG activity as part of the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program. Agencies will be able to discover both NASA and commercial data with the same search tool and will be able to access both datasets subject to the terms of the End User License Agreement (EULA).
This will provide U.S. government agencies discovery and access to both NASA’s commercial data holding and NASA data using the Earthdata.nasa.gov interface. Maxar and Planet products are planned to be available in Earthdata Search by the end of the 2024 calendar year, with additional commercial products phased in continuously.
| Platforms | Thematic Areas |
|---|---|
| PlanetScope, RapidEye, SkySat, Spire, Worldview-1, Worldview-2, Worldview-3, GeoEye-1, QuickBird, IKONOS, Worldview-4, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS), Earth Digital Elevation Model (EarthDEM) | Atmospheric Composition, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems, Disaster Response, Earth Surface and Interior, Infrastructure Products/Other, Land Cover and Land Use Change, Ocean and Cryosphere, Water and Energy Cycle, Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics |
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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