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An ASTER image showing part of the San Quintín Glacier, the largest in southern Chile’s Northern Patagonia Icefield.

GLIMS Database Advances Glacier Monitoring from Space

The Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Glacier Database provides timely data on more than 200,000 glaciers around the world.

Feature Article

Apr 8, 2025

A piece of a larger ECOSTRESS image showing the impact of center-pivot irrigation in the state of Kansas.

Earth Science Data Roundup: March 2025

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in February 2025.

News

Mar 6, 2025

This 2024 Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) image from the HLS project shows the degree of land use change in a region of Western Brazil. Green areas with high NDVI values indicate healthy vegetation while tan and brown areas with low NDVI values indicate soil or barren areas.

The Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 Project Releases Vegetation Indices

These new vegetation indices offer the same near-global coverage, and 30-meter spatial resolution as the initial HLS products.

News

Feb 19, 2025

A segment of an image of ASTER registered radiance data over Guatemala on January 8, 2018

NASA Begins Final ASTER Data Processing Campaign

The final processing of Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data will make its archive more accessible to users.

Feature Article

Jan 21, 2025

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

Earth Science Data Roundup: December 2024

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in November 2024.

News

Dec 4, 2024

Image of colored squares over the Arctic; wavelength scale on right

Earth Science Data Roundup: November 2024

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in October 2024.

News

Nov 4, 2024

image of Earth with colored circles containing data topic icons around it

Earth Science Data Roundup: October 2024

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in September 2024.

News

Oct 3, 2024

ECOSTRESS water use efficiency data from the ECO4WUE product over the Okavango Delta in Botswana, acquired on August 31, 2018.

LP DAAC Product Removal from USGS EarthExplorer and M2M API

Beginning Aug 30, datasets distributed by NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) will no longer be available through the USGS EarthExplorer and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) API.

News

Aug 22, 2024

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GLIMS Database Advances Glacier Monitoring from Space

Earth Science Data Roundup: March 2025

The Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 Project Releases Vegetation Indices

NASA Begins Final ASTER Data Processing Campaign

Earth Science Data Roundup: December 2024

Earth Science Data Roundup: November 2024

Earth Science Data Roundup: October 2024

LP DAAC Product Removal from USGS EarthExplorer and M2M API

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