Data Products
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Acronym | Instrument(s) | Band #, Range | Resolution | Swath, Extent | Revisit Time | Download | Comments | |
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Worldview |
N/A |
Native Native |
Global Varies |
Full-resolution imagery browser and data download tool; imagery generally available within 3-5 hours of observation. |
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Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (Suomi-NPP) |
Visible Imaging Radiometer Suite |
Vis, MIR, TIR, and Nighttime, (22 bands), 405-12,490 0.375,0.750 km |
3000 km 2-Jan |
http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/ Products are available within 2.5 hours of capture and is used to make a nighttime lights image depending on cloud cover. |
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VIIRS Thermal Anomalies / Hotspots I-band distributed via FIRMS |
Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) VIIRS |
Plan to add data from VIIRS I-band in Dec 15 375m |
Global, Vector |
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/firms Rapid and daily email alerts will be available through FIRMS as well as SHP, TXT and KML files. |
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Soil Moisture |
Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) SMAP Radar, SMAP Radiometer |
36 km |
Global, Gridded 50 hour latency |
http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/data/ SMAP team looking to increase resolution of SMAP products |
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Rapid Response |
N/A MODIS, VIIRS |
Imagery from MODIS and VIIRS 0.25 to 1 km |
Global 1 Day |
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/rapid-r... Providing near-real-time imagery and fire detections since 2001. Current emphasis is on low bandwidth users. High bandwidth users are being encouraged to switch to Worldview/GIBS. |
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Precipitation |
Integrated Multi-SatellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) GMI, DPR, IMERG |
Global Precipitation Measurement 0.1 degrees |
Global, Gridded 30 min |
https://pmm.nasa.gov/data-access/downloads/gpm Latency of 6 hours with the goal of 4 |
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OMI (Aura) NRT: Cloud Top Pressure, Aerosol Optical Depth, Sulphur Dioxide and Ozone |
Ozone Monitoring Instrument / LANCE OMI/OMPS |
UV,VIS, 280-500 Pixel resolution 13 x 24 km @ nadir |
Swath 2600 km 1 day |
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/downloa... Products are available daily |
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MODIS Thermal Anomalies / Hotspots (MOD14) distributed via FIRMS |
Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) MODIS |
MO/YD14 data in vector format. 1km |
Global, Vector |
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/firms Rapid and daily email alerts are available through FIRMS as well as SHP, TXT and KML files. |
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MLS (Aura) NRT |
LANCE MLS |
5 spectral bands centered near 118, 190, 240, 640 and 2500 GHz Latitude Resolution: 300 km at limb tagent point (along-track) |
near global Twice per day. 16 days (orbital repeat cycle) |
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/downloa... Ozone, Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Water Vapor, Nitric Acid, Nitrous Oxide, Sulfur Dioxide. Products are available within 2.5 hours of capture |
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MISR NRT - Winds |
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer / LANCE MISR |
4 spectral bands: 446.4nm, 557.5nm, 671.7 nm and 866.4nm; spectral bandwidths: 41.9, 28.6, 21.9, and 39.7 nm; 9 cameras 4 pointing forward, 4 pointing aft and one nadir view; off-nadir angles fore and aft are are 26.1, 45.6, 60 and 70.5 degrees 17.6 km |
Instantaneous swath width that covers all 9 MISR cameras is 360km (224 mi); region observed by MISR in one orbit is 360km wide and 20,000 km long Depending on the latitude the revisit is 2 to 9 days (poles to the equator); 9-day global average |
https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/misr/misr_table Products are available within 2.5 hours of capture |
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Global Landslide Nowcast Product |
Landslide Hazard for Situational Awareness (LHASA) Model |
0.01 Degree (~1 km) |
Global 30 minute |
https://pmm.nasa.gov/precip-apps Documentation for this model is available at https://pmm.nasa.gov/applications/global-landslide-model |
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Global Imagery Browse Services |
GIBS |
Varies Native |
Global Varies |
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/gibs Open web services providing imagery to Worldview and any other client |
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Global Flood Monitoring System |
GFMS |
0.125 degree |
Global, gridded 3 hours |
Working to produce flood vectors that can be loaded into GIS |
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Global Agricultural Monitoring System |
Global Agricultural Monitoring System MODIS |
MODIS derived 250 meters |
Global 8 days |
Near-real-time system and provides 8-day MODIS Color Composites, NDVI and anomaly products |
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EO-1 Hyperion |
Land Satellite Thematic Mapper Hyperion |
Vis, NIR, SWIR 0.03 km |
7.5 km 5-Feb |
Rapid revisit is for off-nadir pointing |
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EO-1 ALI |
Earth Observing One Advanced Land Imager ALI |
Vis, NIR, SWIR 0.01 – 0.03 km |
37.5 km 5-Feb |
Rapid revisit is for off-nadir pointing. |
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Crew Earth Observations Facility |
CEO |
3-band handheld digital camera (currently Nikon D5) images; ~ 0.4-0.7 microns (RGB); resolution variable with look angle, lens used, and ISS altitude; typically between 10-50 m/pixels |
Highly variable with look angle and lens used, can range from <100 km (frame width/height) to 1000s of km for panoramic oblique images Similar illumination conditions over given area of Earth surface every 3-4 days, but ~ 2-3 months before revisit with similar illumination conditions due to precessing inclined, non sun-sychronous equatorial orbit of ISS |
RGB handheld digital camera imagery collected by the ISS crew, subject to operation constraints (including crew work/sleep schedule, other ISS tasks, and planned ISS manuevers) and crew responsiveness to targeting callouts (considered a best-effort activity). In general, spectral quality is low due to COTS camera design but spatial information content can be high with longer lens images (= higher ground spatial resolution). Unprocessed imagery typically available 24 hours after acquisition and downlink; post-processing to fully georeference images typically adds 24+ hours depending on number of frames and difficulty matching ground features. |
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AMRS2 |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 / LANCE |
13 Microwave Channels: 6.9, 7.3, 10.65, 18.7, 23.8, 36.5, and 89.0 GHz, dual polarization except for 23.8 which is Vertical only. Band [GHz] - Spatial Resolution | |
Swath width: 1450 km (level 2 products) global (gridded products) 2 days (According to JAXA, the conical scan enables AMSR2 to acquire a set of daytime and nighttime data with more than 99% coverage of the Earth every 2 days.) The ground track repeat cycle is ~16 days. |
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/downloa... Global Total Precipitation, Global Rainfall, Total Precipitable Water (TPW), Ocean Wind Speed (OWS), Columnar Cloud Liquid Water (CLW) over ocean, Columnar Water Vapor (CWV) over ocean, Snow Water Equivalent (SWE), Sea Ice Concentration. Planned: Soil Moisture, Brightness Temperature (Tb). Products are available within 2.5 hours of capture |
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AIRS (Aqua) NRT |
LANCE AIRS |
2378 IR channels from 3.75 to 15.4 micron range; 4 Vis/NIR channels from 0.7 to 1.0 micron range. IR spatial resolution 13.5km at nadir. Vis/NIR spatial resolution 2.3km x 1.8km (acroos track x along track) at nadir |
approx 49.5 deg swath centered on nadir or 1650km Twice per day. 16 days (orbital repeat cycle) |
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/downloa... Radiances, Temperature, Moisture Profiles, Precipitation, Dust, Clouds and Trace Gases Useful for Hurricanes, Weather Forecast, Human and Ecosystem Health, Wildfires. Products are available within 2.5 hours of capture |
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Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 / ALOS-2 (JAXA) |
ALOS-2 L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR-2) |
Bandwidth: 14 mHz Wide ScanSAR : 60m
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Wide: 490km (7 scans) |