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NASA data provide vital information for farmers, water managers, and others in the field of agriculture.

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Open Science

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

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Environmental Justice

Combining Earth science with socioeconomic data provides insights for identifying vulnerable communities.

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Under the Waves: NASA’s SeaBASS In Situ Aquatic Data
The SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System (SeaBASS) offers data for satellite validation, algorithms, and open science.
This SAR displacement image shows the degree of land subsidence following an earthquake. There is a color spectrum ranging from blue to green to yellow to orange to red, with red indicating the most subsidence (measured in centimeters) and blue indicating the least. The largest area of color on this island is in the yellow to green range.
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Data Tool in Focus: OpenScienceLab
OpenScienceLab promotes open science by reducing barriers to working with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data in the cloud.
InSAR image of Hawaii, Big Island, with colors indicating land movement over time; tightest concentration of land movement is over the Mauna Loa volcano near the center of the image
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Big Data Meet Open Science
A NASA-funded project is making synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data easier to work with—and preparing NASA for a SAR data explosion.
This image from the NOAA-20 satellite shows dust from northwest Africa blowing over the Canary Islands on January 14, 2023.
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Meet EMIT, the Newest Imaging Spectrometer
Data from the EMIT instrument help scientists better understand the role mineral dust plays in heating and cooling the atmosphere.
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User Profile: Dr. Helen Poulos
Data from NASA’s Land Processes DAAC help Dr. Helen Poulos understand climate-induced change in the forests of the Southwestern U.S.
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Webinar: Increasing NASA Earth Science Data Accessibility with GIS
Jun 2, 2023

Join us June 21 at 2 p.m., EDT [UTC -4], to learn about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) initiatives by NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program and see demonstrations of GIS services and capabilities for improving your data workflow.

Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) Code Now Openly Available
May 18, 2023

The release of the HLS codebase gives product users greater visibility into the project’s image processing pipeline.

Funding for Early Career Earth Science Investigators
May 10, 2023

The Early Career Investigator Program in Earth Science supports innovative research and helps cultivate diverse scientific leadership.

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False color image of fires and smoke in Nova Scotia, Canada on 29 May 2023 from the MODIS instrument aboard the Terra satellite
Jun 1, 2023
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Fires in Nova Scotia, Canada

Image captured on May 29, 2023, by the MODIS instrument aboard the Terra satellite.

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