New Tour and Imagery Roundup

Learn more about what's going on around the world with Worldview's new tour!

Screenshot of Worldview's Tour feature, which displays nine square images, each representing a current event such as a hurricane.

Our latest feature in Worldview is our tour!

This tour is now more story focused, bringing you 9 different stories about events going on around the world, interesting tidbits about the imagery, imagery tutorials and information on how to use Worldview.

We'll update the tour stories regularly to keep it fresh!

Screenshot of Worldview imagery of the Camp Fire in 2018, with before-and-after functionality showing the growing fire in red surrounded by green.

Go to Worldview, https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov to check it out!

Tip: If you get tired of seeing the tour window every time you open Worldview, check the box "Do not show until a new story has been added".

And all the new imagery...!

We've fallen way behind on letting you know about the new imagery in GIBS and Worldview. We've come to a whopping 800+ imagery layers, adding almost 200 layers since our last imagery related blog post in September 2017, and the number keeps on growing! Go to the following page to see the full list of available imagery products.

Daily and 8-day Imagery Layers

Screenshot of Worldview showing a satellite image of Africa, with bright pink areas indicating lightning flash concentrations.

ISS/LIS Lightning Flash Count and Radiance over Africa

Lightning (6 layers)

TRMM LIS Flash Radiance (Level 2, Standard); Calibrated Flash Radiance (OTD / Microlab-1); DMSP-F12 OLS Digital Derived Lightning (Level 3, Standard, OLS / DMSP-F12); DMSP-F10 OLS Digital Derived Lightning (Level 3, Standard, OLS / DMSP-F10), ISS/LIS Flash Radiance and Flash Count.

Sulfur Dioxide (4 layers)

Sulfur Dioxide: Planetary Boundary layer; Lower Troposphere; Middle Troposphere; Upper Troposphere and Stratosphere.

Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Daily Level 3 imagery (14 layers)

Soil Moisture (5 layers)

GCOM-W1 AMSR2 LPRM Surface Soil Moisture C1-band (Day | Night, Daily); GCOM-W1 AMSR2 LPRM Surface Soil Moisture C1-band (Downscaled, Day | Night, Daily); SMAP/Sentinel-1 Soil Moisture

Sea Surface Currents/Height Anomalies/Temperature (8 layers)

Sea Surface Currents (Zonal, OSCAR); Sea Surface Currents (Meridional, OSCAR); Sea Surface Height Anomalies (GDR Cycles, TOPEX/Poseidon, JASON); Sea Surface Height Anomalies (US West Coast, GAFECC, TOPEX/Poseidon, JASON); Sea Surface Currents (Zonal, US West Coast, GAFECC, TOPEX/Poseidon, JASON); Sea Surface Currents (Meridional, US West Coast, GAFECC, TOPEX/Poseidon, JASON); Sea Surface Height Anomalies (Reconstructed, TOPEX/Poseidon, JASON); Sea Surface Temperature (L4, AVHRR-OI)

Sea Ice (2 layers)

AMSRU2 Sea Ice Concentration; AMSRU2 Sea Ice Brightness Temperature

Screenshot of Worldview imagery of North America, with swirling yellow areas representing aerosol concentrations.

OMPS Aerosol Index (PyroCumuloNimbus) over North America during the Summer 2018 wildfire season

Aerosols (5 layers)

OMI UV Aerosol Index; OMPS Aerosol Index; OMPS Aerosol Index (PyroCumuloNimbus); SeaWiFS DeepBlue Aerosol Optical Thickness 550nm (Daily); SeaWiFS DeepBlue Aerosol Angstrom Exponent (Daily)

Wind Speed (1 layer)

CYGNSS Wind Speed Daily

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) imagery (45 layers)

Brightness Temperature Channels 1 - 15 from NOAA-15 (3 August 1998 - present), NOAA-16 (27 May 2001 - 3 March 2008) and NOAA-17 (21 July 2002 - 28 October 2003).

Absolute Dynamic Topography (1 layer)

Absolute Dynamic Topography (AVISO)

Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (11 layers)

Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Mascon, CRI, GRACE Tellus); Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Mascon, GRACE Tellus); Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Land, GFZ, GRACE Tellus); Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Land, JPL, GRACE Tellus); Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Land, CSR, GRACE Tellus); Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Ocean, GFZ, GRACE Tellus); Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Ocean, JPL, GRACE Tellus); Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Ocean, CSR, GRACE Tellus); Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Ocean, EOF, GFZ, GRACE Tellus); Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Ocean, EOF, JPL, GRACE Tellus); Liquid Water Equivalent Thickness (Ocean, EOF, CSR, GRACE Tellus)

Sea Surface Salinity 8-Day (2 layers)

Sea Surface Salinity (L3, 8-Day Running Mean, Radiometer); Sea Surface Salinity (L3, CAP, 8-Day Running Mean, Radiometer)

Monthly Imagery Layers

Aerosols (2 layers)

SeaWiFS DeepBlue Aerosol Optical Thickness 550nm (Monthly); SeaWiFS DeepBlue Aerosol Angstrom Exponent (Monthly).

Sea Surface Salinity (2 layers)

Sea Surface Salinity (L3, Monthly, Radiometer); Sea Surface Salinity (L3, CAP, Monthly, Radiometer,).

Screenshot of Worldview showing a world map with land masses in gray surrounded by a colorful global ocean, with reds and yellows indicating higher sea surface salinity and blues and purples indicating lower salinity.

Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Sea Surface Salinity (L3, CAP, Monthly)

Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) imagery (26 layers):

2-meter Air Temperature
Total Precipitation Bias Corrected
Snowfall
Soil Water Root Zone
Evaporation over Land
SO2 Column Mass Density ENSEMBLE
Dust Surface Mass Concentration PM2.5
Dust Surface Mass Concentration
Total Aerosol Optical Thickness Scattering 550nm
Total Aerosol Optical Thickness Extinction 550nm
Total Dust Deposition, Dry+Wet All Bins
Evaporation from Turbulence
Surface Albedo
Carbon Monoxide Emission ENSEMBLE
ISCCP Cloud Albedo
Snow Depth Over Glaciated Surface
Incident Shortwave Over Land
Open Water Latent Energy Flux
Total Precipitable Water Vapor
2-meter Air Temperature, Assimilated
Aerosol Optical Depth Analysis
Surface Wind Speed
Air Temperature at 250hPa
Ozone Mixing Ratio at 50hPa
Relative Humidity After Moist at 700hPa
Convective Rainwater Source at 700hPa

Composite and Reference Layers

Socioeconomic imagery (47 layers)

Croplands
Pastures
Anthropogenic Biomes
Drought Hazard: Frequency and Distribution, Mortality Risk, Economic Risk
Cyclone Hazard: Frequency and Distribution, Mortality Risk, Economic Risk
Flood Hazard: Frequency and Distribution, Mortality Risk, Economic Risk
Volcano Hazard: Frequency and Distribution, Mortality Risk, Economic Risk
Estimated Migration by Decade: 1970-1980, 1980 -1990, 1990-2000
Population Density: 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020
Urban Extent; Human Footprint
Last of the Wild
Urban-Rural Extent Below 10m
Particulate Matter below 2.5 micrometers 2001-2010, 2010-2012
Mangrove Forest
Probabilities of Urban Expansion
Summer Day Maximum Land Surface Temperature
Summer Night Minimum Land Surface Temperature
Ground Level Nitrogen Dioxide 3 year running mean 1996-1998, 2010-2012
Amphibian Richness: All Species, Vulnerable Species, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, All Threats
Mammal Richness: All Species, Vulnerable Species, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, All Threats
Human Built-up and Settlement Extent
Impervious Surface Percentage

Land Cover (1 layer)

WELD 5 Year Tree Cover

Screenshot of Worldview imagery of Earth, with croplands and pastures indicated in various shades of light green and yellow.

SEDAC Croplands and Pastures layers

Worldview screenshot of the Continental U.S. with tree cover indicated in shades of green.

WELD 5 year Tree Cover composite over the continental US

Reference

Orbit Tracks (Ascending | Descending) (18 layers)

Sentinel 1A, Sentinel 1B , Sentinel 2A, Sentinel 2B, Sentinel 5P, ICESat-2, MetOP-C, GCOM-C and Landsat 7.