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Alaska SAR Facility

SAR Sea Ice, Polar processes

To archive and distribute current and historical data

Land Processes DAAC (EROS Data Center)

The interdisciplinary study and understanding of the Earth's land masses

To process, archive, and distribute land-related data

Global Hydrology Resource Center

Sea-surface and atmospheric temperatures, lightning, precipitation, convection, and severe weather interactions

To archive and distribute current and historical data

Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences (GES) DAAC

Atmospheric chemistry and dynamics, hydrology, land biosphere, and ocean color

To archive and distribute data relevant to the local, regional, and global land, ocean, and atmospheric processes

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Physical Oceanography (PO) DAAC

Oceanic processes and air-sea interactions

To archive and distribute data relevant to the physical state of the ocean

Langley Research Center

Atmospheric processes

To be a source for radiation budget, cloud, aerosols, and tropospheric chemistry data

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Snow and Ice data products targeted for the scientific research community

To serve as a cryospheric focal point

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Environmental processes

To be a source for biogeochemical and ecological data useful for studying environmental processes

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center

Human interactions in the environment

To develop and operate applications that support the integration of socioeconomic and Earth science data and to serve as an "Information Gateway" between the Earth and social sciences

RADARSAT Geophysical Processor System

RADARSAT ScanSAR B data

Arctic-wide sea-ice information products

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility

• ERS-1
• ERS-2
• JERS-1
• RADARSAT

Standard 100 km x 100 km scene, and special products (e.g., mosaics, interferograms, animations)

Geophysical Processor System

ERS-1 SAR images

Archive of sea ice motion, sea ice classification, and ocean wave spectra

Geo-Data Center

• NOAA/AVHRR hardcopy images
• Landsat Multi-Spectral Scanner (MSS) hardcopy images
• Alaska High Altitude Aerial Photography
• USGS topographic maps of Alaska

Archive of images, air photos, and maps

NASA Landsat Data Collection

Multipsectral Scanner System (MSS) and Thematic Mapper (TM) on Landsat 1-5, 7

Selected data from Landsat 1-5, 7

Landsat Data Continuity Mission

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Future remote sensing dataset, continuing heritage of Landsat 1-5, 7

Landsat 7 ETM+

Landsat 7 ETM+

L0 and L1 WRS scenes and "floating" scenes, metadata, and calibration parameters

Terra ASTER

Visible Near Infrared, shortwave Infrared, and Thermal infrared (VNIR, SWIR and TIR) cameras on Terra ASTER

Vegetation and ecosystem dynamics, hazard monitoring, geology, and soils, land surface climatology, hydrology, and land cover change data

Terra MODIS

Terra MODIS

Surface reflectance, Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity, Land Cover/Change, Vegetation Indices, Thermal Anomalies/Fire, Leaf Area Index / Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (LAI/FPAR) and Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function and Albedo, for moderate resolution surface monitoring. Also for global-to-regional monitoring, modeling, and assessment

Landsat Pathfinder

Multipsectral Scanner System (MSS) and Thematic Mapper (TM) on Landsat 1-5, 7. Also NOAA AVHRR

Long-term, medium- to high-resolution datasets for particular regional and global applications to global change research

NASA Science Data Purchase

Landsat TM

Geocover, Orthorectified Landsat TM

AVHRR

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

Global 1-km coverage and mosaics of stitched orbital segments

Global 30 Arc-Second Elevation Data Set

Compiled from various sources

Tiles of a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer)

Global Land Cover Characterization

1-km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data spanning April 1992 through March 1993

1-km resolution global land cover characteristics data base

Airborne Imagery

• NS-001 Mutispectral scanner
• Daedalus thematic mapper simulator (TMS) scanner
• Thermal infrared multispectral scanner (TIMS)
• Advanced Solid-state Array Spectroradiometer (ASAS)

Digital imagery acquired mostly from selected areas over the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii

Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar Project

Space Transportation System (shuttle)

Vegetation type, extent, and deforestation; Soil moisture content; Ocean dynamics, wave and surface wind speeds and directions; Volcanism and tectonic activity; Soil erosion and desertification

Space-based lightning observations

• Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS)
• Optical Transient Detector (OTD, 1995-2000)
• Lightning Mapper Sensor (LMS, on GOES-E and -W)
• Surface validation ne2rks

Input to weather forecasts; more timely hazardous weather and tornado warnings, and a proxy for detecting intense atmospheric convection. Studies of mesoscale phenomena such as storm convection, dynamics, and microphysics

Global Hydrological Data, derived from several passive microwave instruments

• Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) on Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites DMSP F-8, DMSP F-10, and DMSP F-11
• NOAA-15
• NOAA-16
• Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI), the Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS), and the Precipitation Radar (PR)

Sea surface temperature, atmospheric water vapor, wind direction, and atmospheric temperature

Passive Microwave Earth Science Information Partner

• Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI)
• NOAA-15 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A and -B)

Maximum tropical cyclone wind speeds, global tropospheric and atmospheric temperatures, tropical rainfall, sea surface temperature, and wind speed

Convection and Moisture Experiment

NASA DC-8 and ER-2 research aircraft

High-resolution spatial and temporal information of hurricane structure, dynamics, and motion

Mesoscale Convection Systems

Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Brightness Temperature Swaths from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites DMSP F-13 and DMSP F-14

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Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

Validation products

Ozone and other trace gas compositions, dynamics, and energy interactions of the upper atmosphere

• Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)
• Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)

Data, information, and resources about the chemistry, dynamics and solar interactions of the Earth's upper atmosphere

3-dimensional dynamic and thermodynamic state of the earth-atmosphere system

• Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU), aboard NOAA's Polar-Orbiting Operational Satellites (POES)
• TOVS, aboard NOAA polar orbiting weather satellites since 1978
• Terra (EOS AM-1)
• Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) and Humidity Sounder for Brazil (HSB), aboard the Earth Observing System (EOS PM-1) Aqua

Goddard Earth Observing System Data Assimilation System ( GEOS-DAS ) analyses, and temperature and humidity profiles. Data Assimilation System atmospheric general circulation model results

Aircraft and ground based measurements of meteorological variables

• MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) Archive
• TRMM Field Experiments Archive
• Southern Great Plains 99 (SGP99) Soil Hydrology Experiment Archive
• Southern Great Plains 97 (SGP97) Soil Hydrology Experiment Archive
• Tropical Ocean Global Atmospheres/Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE) of 1992-93 Archive

Data from low and mid-level aircraft instruments, satellite, surface stations and field sampling

Global hydrological cycle, climate modeling and applications

• Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SSMR)
• SSM/I on Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites DMSP F-8, DMSP F-10, and DMSP F-11
• TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI), the Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS), and the Precipitation Radar (PR)

Raingage and satellite precipitation data

Access to various Climatology data collections

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Global land, ocean, and atmospheric parameters mapped to uniform spatial and temporal scales

Global change research

Archives of Pathfinder Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Land (PAL) Data

Long time-series vegetation and thermal infrared brightness temperature datasets

To investigate ocean productivity, marine optical properties, and the interaction of winds and currents with ocean biology

• Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) Archive
• Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on OrbView-2
• Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on TERRA (EOS AM-1)
• Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (OCTS) on the Japanese National Space Development Agency (NASDA) Advanced Earth Observation Satellite "Midori"

Remote sensing ocean color datasets

JPL ERS-1 Altimeter Value-Added Geophysical Data Project

Radar altimeter on ERS-1

Sea Surface Height data and improved values for ancillary data

JPL ATSR-2 Data Project

Along-Track Scanning Radiometer-2 (ATSR-2) on the European Remote Sensing-2 (ERS-2)

1km Gridded Brightness Temperature Data

JPL Multi Channel Sea Surface Temperature Project

AVHRR on NOAA-n

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data

JPL MODIS SST Project

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA Terra

Global Level 3 Mapped SST, at 4 km resolution

JPL NSCAT Mission

NSCAT on Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS)

High resolution measurements of near-surface wind speed and direction over Earth's oceans

NASA Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder Project

NSCAT on Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS)

Variability in subsurface/subcanopy climate-related features, over a wide range of vegetation zones and moisture conditions

JPL SeaWinds Project

SeaWinds on QuikSCAT

Daily Ocean Wind Vectors

JPL Oceans Pathfinder SST Mission

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometers (AVHRR) on board the NOAA -7, -9, -11, and -14 polar orbiting satellites

Daily, 8-day and monthly averaged SST data, and SST Climatology products

JPL TOPEX/POSEIDON Mission

Radar altimeter on TOPEX/POSEIDON

Sea Surface height data

SSE

• Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES)
• Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)
• Surface Radiation Budget (SRB)
• Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR)
• Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (AirMISR)
• Active Cavity Radiometer (ACRIM) II and III
• Surface Solar Energy (SSE)

• Earth's radiation budget, at the Top of Atmosphere (TOA), through the atmosphere, and at the surface
• Earth's radiation budget at the TOA
• Shortwave and longwave radiative fluxes at the surface
• TOA radiances in four spectral bands and nine viewing angles, cloud and surface angular reflectance functions, and surface BRDF, aerosol, and vegetation properties
• Airborne instruments that obtain measurements similar to those of MISR
• Total solar irradiance
• Radiation and meteorological parameters for the renewable energy community

ISCCP

International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)

Cloud and TOA radiative properties

POAM

• Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) I, II, and III
• Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement (SAM II)
• Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement (POAM) II and III

• Stratospheric aerosols, ozone and nitrogen dioxide
• Stratospheric aerosols
• Atmospheric ozone, water vapor, nitrogen dioxide, and aerosol extinction

NARSTO

• Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT)
• Biomass Burning
• Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE)
• North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone (NARSTO)

• Carbon monoxide and methane in the troposphere
• Total amount of biomass burned
• Tropospheric trace gases
• Tropospheric ozone

CLAMS

• First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE)
• Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE)
• Convection And Moisture EXperiment (CAMEX) 4
• Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurement for Satellites (CLAMS)

• FIRE I, FIRE II and FIRE III
• Aerosol and water vapor
• Water vapor
• CERES, AirMISR and MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) data

Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project

Radarsat, by the Canadian Space Agency

Radarsat synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery

NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program, Polar Pathfinders

• Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)
• Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSMI)
• Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR)
• TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS)

Satellite datasets (long time-series, and stable calibration capability), with a common projection, file naming conventions, and validation conventions

MODIS Instrument Science Team Snow and Ice Global Mapping Project

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra satellite

Snow and sea ice products

ICESat Mission

Geoscience Laser Altimetry System (GLAS) on the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)

Laser altimetry and atmospheric lidar data

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) Mission

• AMSR on Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II (ADEOS-II)
• AMSR-E on NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua

Geophysical parameters for the investigation of global water and energy circulation

Field Campaign Data from NASA's Terrestrial Ecology Program

• BOREAS
• BOREAS FOLLOW-ON
• FIFE
• FIFE FOLLOW-ON
• LBA
• OTTER
• SAFARI 2000
• SUPERIOR NATIONAL FOREST

Climate, radiation, vegetation, soil, hydrology, and atmospheric ground-based, aircraft-based, and satellite-based measurements of biogeochemical features in specific ecosystems

Land Validation Data

• CANOPY CHEMISTRY (ACCP)
• EOS LAND VALIDATION
• FLUXNET
• PROVE

Ground-based observations coincident with satellite data, to compare with satellite-derived products and to develop, calibrate, and validate ecosystem models

Regional and Global Data

• CLIMATE COLLECTIONS
• HYDROCLIMATOLOGY COLLECTIONS
• NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY (NPP)
• RIVER DISCHARGE (RIVDIS)
• SOIL COLLECTIONS
• VEGETATION COLLECTIONS
• VEGETATION-ECOSYSTEM MODELING (VEMAP)

Regional and global data search-and-retrieval system results, and regional and global data

Information Gateway

Keyword, location, date, database search frontend. Searches metadata

Search results

Population, Land Use and Emissions Data

To link a range of georeferenced demographic and other socioeconomic data products with remote sensing data related to land cover and use

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Model Visualization and Analyses Service

Integrated assessment to examine the relationship between human activities and global climate change

Model-generated output

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators

A fast, convenient, comprehensive online search service for finding information about environmental treaties and national resource indicators:

• The social and economic factors that drive greenhouse gas emissions
• The effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the global biosphere and climate
• The effects of changes in the biosphere and climate on economies and societies

Text and image search results

Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health Project

to provide data and resources in the areas of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, ozone, and human health impacts of UV exposure

Databases, reports, and Internet resources