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Wildfires

NASA provides many resources for monitoring and tracking wildfires.

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Open Science empowers an inclusive, collaborative scientific process through the open sharing of data and knowledge.

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Air Quality

Air pollution is one of the largest global environmental and health threats.

This is a satellite view of wildfires across a portion of the Amazon Rainforest. The image shows popcorn clouds and wispy streaks of fire smoke over the forest and winding Amazon River. Overlayed across the image are hundreds of small red dots to mark the location of fires identified by satellite sensors.
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Improving Fire Detection in the Amazon
NASA researchers are tweaking algorithms and combining data from multiple satellites to track tropical forest fires in Brazil.
A screen capture from NASA's Earthdata Search that shows a user-defined geographic area of interest and the area covered by three granuales from a snow cover dataset.
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Data Tool in Focus: Earthdata Search
Earthdata Search’s wide array of features and functionality makes finding the right data quick and easy.
An artist's conception of the TROPICS SmallSat constellation in space over a tropical cyclone
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Provisional TROPICS Data Now Available
Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats (TROPICS) Pathfinder data released.
A color topographical map of Okmok volcano with labels for its caldera, cinder cones, and other features.
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Keeping a Close Eye on Distant and Active Volcanoes
A NASA-funded study used cloud-based synthetic aperture radar data to measure changes in volcanoes in the remote Aleutian Islands.
Diffraction grating within the TEMPO instrument separates the light into different wavelengths to discern the unique patterns of the various pollutants.
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New Instrument Provides Hourly Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants
NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution (TEMPO) instrument will revolutionize air quality monitoring over North America.
News and Events
Webinar: Community Developed Resources—Explore the Openscapes Earthdata Cloud Cookbook

Join us Wednesday, Feb 28, to learn how to use the Openscapes Earthdata Cloud Cookbook—a compilation of open-source tutorials, workflows, libraries, and cheatsheets that help users find, access, and work with Earth science data.

NASA EMIT Mapping Methane Plumes: Data Tutorial Workshop

This 2-hour virtual workshop on March 14, 2024, demonstrates how to use methane data products from NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission.

Earth Science Data Roundup: February 2024

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in January 2024.

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U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center Focus of Workshop at AMS Annual Meeting

A workshop at the 2024 American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting helped attendees maximize their use of openly available data offered through the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center.

Applying Machine Learning to Harmful Algal Blooms

The open-source Cyanobacteria Finder (CyFi) uses machine learning to pinpoint areas that may contain harmful algal blooms in lakes, reservoirs, rivers, and other small water bodies.

earthaccess: Earth Science Data Simplified

The earthaccess Python library provides an easy way to search, download, or stream NASA Earth science data using a few lines of code.

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False-color reflectance image of wildfires in the Valpariso region, Chile on 3 February 2024 from the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite
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Wildfires in the Valparaiso Region, Chile

Image captured Feb 3, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.

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