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Land Surface Data Access and Tools
NASA data provide key measurements of Earth’s land, allowing researchers to accurately understand its composition, processes, uses, and interactions. Our datasets and tools help researchers translate these interconnected data points into actionable knowledge.
Land Surface Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASF MapReady | Terrain-correct, geocode, and apply polarimetric decompositions to multi-pol SAR data | Processing | |
| Giovanni | Giovanni is a web application for accessing, visualizing, and analyzing Earth science remote sensing data without downloading the data. | Search and Discovery, Analysis, Access, Visualization, Downloading, Subsetting | |
| RTC Stack Processor | The radiometric terrain correction (RTC) stack processor tool facilitates time-series analysis of such phenomena as flooding events, deforestation, or glacier retreat. | Analysis, Processing, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| SDAT | The Spatial Data Access Tool (SDAT) is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards-based web application to visualize and download spatial data in various user-selected spatial/temporal extents, file formats, and projections. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| VEDA | NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities. | Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing | |
| Vertex | Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. | Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, Subsetting | |
| Worldview | Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization |
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Datasets
| Dataset | Size | Start Date | End Date | N Lat | S Lat | E long | W Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SENTINEL-1A_SLC | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_METADATA_GRD_MEDIUM_RES | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_METADATA_GRD_HIGH_RES | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_METADATA_GRD_FULL_RES | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_GRD_MEDIUM_RES | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_GRD_HIGH_RES | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_GRD_FULL_RES | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| SENTINEL-1A_RAW | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| SENTINEL-1A_OCN | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| SENTINEL-1A_METADATA_SLC | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 |
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