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Data User Stories
NASA's Earth observation data is used by researchers, decision makers, and communities around the globe—from farmers to climate scientists to experts in artificial intelligence. Meet some of our users by reading their stories.
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Alfreda Hall leads NASA's Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program that purchases data from commercial vendors.
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Synthetic aperture radar may give researchers an opportunity to study volcanoes in finer detail than ever before.
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Data from NASA’s GHRC DAAC helps scientists like Dr. Anna Wilson develop accurate representations of atmospheric rivers to increase forecast accuracy and improve weather model outputs.
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NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) helps scientists like Dr. Glasscoe assess risks and responses to natural hazards on a global scale.
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Data from NASA’s GES DISC helps scientists like Dr. Nadia Smith build and improve retrieval systems that provide important information to climate scientists and meteorologists around the globe.
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Data available from NASA’s LP DAAC helps scientists like Dr. Robert Wright develop systems for autonomously detecting volcanic eruptions from space.
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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data is essential to projects that monitor the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.
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As a pioneer of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), Dr. Zebker wrote a number of the initial papers on the method.
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