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A screen capture from the USGS's Water Information from SPace (WISP) application that shows USGS water gauges and global water monitoring sites.

USGS Releases WISP Dashboard

The Water Information from SPace (WISP) dashboard brings together data from NASA’s SWOT satellite and USGS streamgages in a user-friendly application.

Blog

July 30, 2025

Global coverage of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) River Reach collection highlighting its 21 day global cycle of Water Surface Elevation (WSE).

From Space to Solutions: Access, Visualization, and Analysis Services for SWOT Hydrology

Join us on Wed., July 30 at 2:00 p.m. EDT (-04:00 UTC) to explore SWOT hydrology data collections of rivers and lakes, and to learn how to work with SWOT hydrology data using tools provided by both NASA's PO.DAAC and the USGS.

Webinar

July 18, 2025

This is part of a larger image from the ASTER instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite. Composed of reconstructed unprocessed instrument band combination 3n-2-1 data, this image shows the landscape of Guatemala on March 23, 2003. Credit: LP DAAC

Earth Science Data Roundup: June 2025

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in May 2025.

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June 12, 2025

Image of sea surface temperature anomalies for June 8, 2025 from the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) sea surface temperature analysis product.

Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

Image for June 8, 2025, from the GHRSST sea surface temperature analysis.

Worldview Image of the Week

June 9, 2025

Black-and-white VIIRS day/night bands data visualization

Earth Science Data Roundup: May 2025

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in April 2025.

News

May 13, 2025

A piece of a larger ECOSTRESS image showing the impact of center-pivot irrigation in the state of Kansas.

Earth Science Data Roundup: March 2025

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in February 2025.

News

March 6, 2025

A visualization of COWVR wind speed and direction data during a bomb cyclone in November 2024.

COWVR and TEMPEST V10 Datasets Available in First Public Release

The Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) and Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) datasets are the first from the Space Test Program - Houston 8 (STP-H8) mission that aims to test low-cost, light-weight instruments designed for weather applications.

News

Jan. 17, 2025

A satellite image of the West Coast shows the ocean in dark blue, land in shades of brown, and wildfire hotspots in bright red.

Los Angeles Wildfires Disrupting DAAC Operations and Data Access

NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are experiencing operational outages that may affect data processing.

News

Jan. 9, 2025

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USGS Releases WISP Dashboard

From Space to Solutions: Access, Visualization, and Analysis Services for SWOT Hydrology

Earth Science Data Roundup: June 2025

Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

Earth Science Data Roundup: May 2025

Earth Science Data Roundup: March 2025

COWVR and TEMPEST V10 Datasets Available in First Public Release

Los Angeles Wildfires Disrupting DAAC Operations and Data Access

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