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EOSDIS Land Data

Land products involve two related Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) disciplines. Land Surface includes geophysical processes and parameters involving the Earth’s land surfaces (e.g., surface temperature, soil moisture, vegetation cover, and land use). The Solid Earth discipline includes data sets related to processes arising in the Earth’s interior (e.g., gravity, geomagnetism, tectonics) which, although originating from below the surface, still can be analyzed from ground, air, or space-based measurements. Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) hold land surface and solid earth data sets, with some products overlapping other disciplines, such as frozen ground also within the Cryosphere discipline and some surface radiative property data sets contained also in the Atmosphere discipline. The primary DAACs specializing in this discipline are the Crustal Dynamics Data and Information System (CDDIS), Land Processes DAAC (LP DAAC) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL DAAC). Several other DAACs also hold land data as they relate to their respective disciplines. Near real-time data for Land applications can be found at Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE).

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CDDIS LP DAAC ORNL DAAC ASDC DAAC ASF DAAC GES DISC GHRC DAAC LAADS NSIDC DAAC OB.DAAC SEDAC


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Click on one of the measurements below to explore the data in Earthdata Search:

Land Surface

  • Erosion/Sedimentation
  • Frozen Ground
  • Geomorphic Landforms/Processes
  • Land Temperature
  • Land Use/Land Cover
  • Landscape
  • Soils
  • Surface Radiative Properties
  • Topography

Solid Earth

  • Earth Gases/Liquids
  • Geochemistry
  • Geodetics
  • Geomagnetism
  • Geomorphic Landforms/Processes
  • Gravity/Gravitational Field
  • Rocks/Minerals/Crystals
  • Tectonics

Learn more about Land Data at EOSDIS

Learn more about Land Data at EOSDIS by reading Sensing Our Planet articles that feature research utilizing Earth Observing data from the EOSDIS DAACs and watch NASA Earthdata Webinar videos to learn more about NASA Earth science data sets, services and tools to discover, access and use these data.


Land Data Set Reference Sheet:

Land one pagerASTER Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) Data Set Fact Sheet:

ASTER GDEM one pager

Global Data Explorer (GDEx) Data Tool Fact Sheet:

GDEx one pager

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data Set Fact Sheet:

SAR one pager

Vertex - SAR Data Portal Fact Sheet:

Vertex one pager

Links

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    Webinar: ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next-Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration from the ISS

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    Webinar: Exploring Earth’s Land Surface with Suomi NPP NASA VIIRS Land Data

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    Webinar: Discover and Access Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) from the USGS Archive

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    Webinar: An Introduction to the AppEEARS Point Sampler

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    Webinar: An Introduction to the NASA AppEEARS Area Sampler

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    Webinar: An Introduction to Suomi-NPP NASA VIIRS Data Products

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    Webinar: Exploring Earth’s Land Surface with Suomi NPP NASA VIIRS Land Data

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    Webinar: NASA ORNL DAAC MODIS and VIIRS Data Tools and Services at your Fingertips

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    Webinar: Discover and Access Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) from the USGS Archive

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