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Aqua Data Access and Tools
Data collected by NASA’s Aqua satellite are integral for efforts to characterize the Earth's water cycle. Explore Aqua datasets and learn more about relevant data tools.
Datasets
| Dataset Sort descending | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Version | Data State | Data Format | Related Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids V002 | AMSR-E | 2002-06-19 to 2011-10-03 | 2 | COMPLETE | HDF-EOS2 | Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent |
| AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parameters, & QC EASE-Grids V002 | AMSR-E | 2002-06-19 to 2011-10-03 | 2 | COMPLETE | HDF-EOS2 | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content |
| AMSR-E/Aqua L1A Raw Observation Counts V003 | AMSR-E | 2002-06-01 to 2011-10-04 | 3 | COMPLETE | HDF-EOS2 | Sensor Counts |
| AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures V004 | AMSR-E | 2002-06-01 to 2011-10-04 | 4 | COMPLETE | HDF-EOS2 | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery |
| AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Ocean Products derived from Wentz Algorithm V002 | AMSR-E | 2002-06-19 to 2011-10-03 | 2 | COMPLETE | HDF-EOS2, ASCII | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Water Temperature |
| AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm V003 | AMSR-E | 2002-06-01 to 2011-10-04 | 3 | COMPLETE | HDF-EOS2 | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Convective Surface Precipitation Rate, Liquid Surface Precipitation Rate, Precipitation Rate, Total Surface Precipitation Rate |
| AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm V004 | AMSR-E | 2002-06-01 to 2011-10-04 | 4 | COMPLETE | HDF-EOS5 | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Convective Surface Precipitation Rate, Liquid Surface Precipitation Rate, Precipitation Rate, Total Surface Precipitation Rate |
| AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids V002 | AMSR-E | 2002-06-18 to 2011-10-03 | 2 | COMPLETE | HDF-EOS2 | Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content |
| AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids V003 | AMSR-E | 2002-06-01 to 2011-10-04 | 3 | COMPLETE | HDF-EOS5 | Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content |
| AMSR-E/Aqua level 3 global monthly Surface Soil Moisture Averages V005 (AMSRE_AVRMO) at GES DISC | AMSR-E | 2002-10-01 to 2011-09-30 | 005 | COMPLETE | Soil Moisture/Water Content |
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Aqua Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIRMS | The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity. | Access, Visualization | |
| LDOPE | Access a range of software tools designed to manipulate, visualize, and analyze MODIS and VIIRS data. | Analysis, Visualization | |
| Similarity Search | Similarity Search uses machine learning to make it easier for scientists to comb through millions of images and locate sets of similar examples. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| TESViS | The Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services Global Subsets Tool provides on-demand, customized subsets of several terrestrial ecology data products. | Visualization, Subsetting | |
| Worldview | Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events |
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