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Background

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.

Status

NASA is implementing this SNWG activity as part of the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program. Agencies will be able to discover both NASA and commercial remote sensing data with the same Earthdata Search tool and will be able to download 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 holdings and NASA funded data using the Earthdata.nasa.gov interface. Additional commercial data is available through the CSDA Satellite Data Explorer.

Solution Characteristics

PlatformsThematic Areas
Maxar, PlanetScope, RapidEye, SkySat, Spire, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Earth Sensing Imaging Spectroradiometer (DESIS), Earth Digital Elevation Model (EarthDEM), Airbus, Greenhouse Gas Satellite (GHGSat), BlackSky, Capella, ICEYE, GeoOpticsAtmospheric 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

Societal Impact

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.

Solution Resources

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