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Earthdata has a range of tutorials, data recipes, and webinars for users interested in learning more about how to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with NASA Earth science data. Explore our GIS-related learning resources below.

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Esri Federal GIS Conference 2025

Our Earth Data Officer, Katie Baynes, spoke at the Federal GIS Conference Plenary. In case you missed her presentation, here is a story map for you to catch up on how NASA Earth data can be leveraged in your GIS project.
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Screenshot of NISAR data in ARCGIS Pro.

NISAR in GIS

Work with data from the NASA/ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) platform in ArcGIS Pro.
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This Sentinel-1 image capturing the Mississippi River has been processed into a GIS-compatible format and imported for ease of use. Credit: Copernicus Sentinel data 2017, processed by ESA.

Geocode Sentinel-1 with ArcGIS

This data recipe shows how to geocode Sentinel-1 GRD products in ArcGIS using the Project Raster tool.
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Change Detection Using OPERA Sentinel-1 RTC

View a change detection workflow for Radiometric Terrain-Corrected products from Sentinel-1 (RTC-S1) provided by NASA's Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA) project.
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Work with NISAR Sample Data

Access 20 tutorials for using NASA/Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) data in a GIS environment, using Panoply, and transforming the data using GDAL commands.
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image of Hurricane Helene using OPERA

OPERA Sentinel-1 RTC

Access cloud-optimized Sentinel-1 radiometric terrain corrected synthetic aperture radar (SAR) backscatter products from NASA's Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA) project.
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GIS at NASA

Geographic Information Systems - going beyond mapping! Providing powerful capabilities to visualize, analyze, and interact with big data
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