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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.

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ABoVE: Angular-corrected MODIS MAIAC Reflectance across Alaska and Canada, 2000-2017 MODIS 2000-02-24 to 2017-12-31 1 COMPLETE HDF4 Reflectance, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Cover, Reflectance
ABoVE: Burn Severity, Fire Progression, and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2015-2016 SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, MODIS 2015-05-20 to 2016-08-08 1 COMPLETE CSV Soil Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Cover, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Dominant Species, Biomass, Plant Characteristics
ABoVE: Burn Severity, Fire Progression, Landcover and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2014 MODIS, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE 1997-07-07 to 2015-07-15 1 COMPLETE multiple Dominant Species, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Fire Occurrence, Biomass, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Plant Characteristics, Soil Temperature, Vegetation Cover
ABoVE: Burned Area, Depth, and Combustion for Alaska and Canada, 2001-2019 MODIS, OLI, TIRS 2001-01-01 to 2019-12-31 1 COMPLETE COG Fire Occurrence, Emissions, Forests, Carbon, Burned Area
ABoVE: Corrected MODIS MAIAC Reflectance at Tower Sites, Alaska and Canada, 2000-2016 Computer, MODIS 2000-02-24 to 2016-07-31 1 COMPLETE CSV Reflectance
ABoVE: Dall Sheep Response to Snow and Landscape Covariates, Alaska, 2005-2008 Computer, MODIS 2005-09-01 to 2008-08-31 1 COMPLETE netCDF-4 classic Snow Depth, EVEN-TOED UNGULATES, Topographic Effects, Terrain Elevation, Snow Density
ABoVE: Environmental Conditions During Fall Moose Hunting Seasons, Alaska, 2000-2016 WATER LEVEL GAUGES, MODIS, THERMOMETERS 2000-01-01 to 2016-12-31 1 COMPLETE CSV Air Temperature, Leaf Characteristics, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Phenological Changes, Animal Ecology and Behavior, Animal Commodities, Rural Areas, Water Depth, EVEN-TOED UNGULATES
ABoVE: Fractional Open Water Cover for Pan-Arctic and ABoVE-Domain Regions, 2002-2015 AMSR-E, MODIS, AMSR2 2002-06-20 to 2015-12-31 1 COMPLETE GeoTIFF Total Surface Water, Droughts, Floods, Inundation
ABoVE: High Resolution Cloud-Free Snow Cover Extent and Snow Depth, Alaska, 2001-2017 MODIS 2001-01-01 to 2017-12-30 1 COMPLETE netCDF-4 classic Snow Cover, Snow Depth
ABoVE: Ignitions, Burned Area, and Emissions of Fires in AK, YT, and NWT, 2001-2018 MODIS, Computer 2001-01-01 to 2018-12-31 2 COMPLETE multiple Fire Models, Fire Occurrence, Emissions, Organic Matter, Fire Disturbance, Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)
ABoVE: Light-Curve Modelling of Gridded GPP Using MODIS MAIAC and Flux Tower Data MODIS, Computer, MMS 2000-01-01 to 2018-01-01 1 COMPLETE HDF4 Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Gross Primary Production (gpp), Carbon Flux, Primary Production, Land Use Classes
ABoVE: MODIS-derived Maximum NDVI, Northern Alaska and Yukon Territory for 2002-2017 MODIS 2002-06-01 to 2017-08-30 1 COMPLETE GeoTIFF Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
ABoVE: Passive Microwave-derived Annual Snow Melt Duration Date Maps, 1988-2018 SMMR, SSMIS, AMSR-E, SSM 1988-02-09 to 2018-07-20 1.1 COMPLETE multiple Snow Cover, Snow Melt, Snow Cover, Snow Melt, Snow Melt
ABoVE: Passive Microwave-derived Annual Snowpack Main Melt Onset Date Maps, 1988-2023 SSMIS, AMSR-E, SMMR, SSM 1988-02-09 to 2023-07-20 1.0 COMPLETE multiple Snow Melt, Snow Melt, Surface Melt, Snow Melt
ABoVE: Rain-on-Snow Frequency and Distribution during Cold Seasons, Alaska, 1988-2023 AMSR-E, AMSR2, SSMIS 1988-11-01 to 2023-03-31 2 COMPLETE COG Snow Density, Snow Water Equivalent, Brightness Temperature, Rain
Aboveground Biomass Change for Amazon Basin, Mexico, and Pantropical Belt, 2003-2016 GLAS, Computer, MODIS 2003-01-01 to 2016-12-31 1 COMPLETE GeoTIFF Biomass Dynamics, Biomass, Carbon
AIRS-AMSU variables-CloudSat cloud mask, radar reflectivities, and cloud classification matchups V3.2 (AIRSM_CPR_MAT) at GES DISC AIRS, CloudSat-CPR 2006-06-15 to 2012-12-14 3.2 COMPLETE Clouds
AIRS/Aqua Granule map product V005 (AIRXAMAP) at GES DISC AIRS 2002-05-21 to Present 005 ACTIVE Infrared Radiance, Brightness Temperature
AIRS/Aqua L1B AMSU (A1/A2) geolocated and calibrated brightness temperatures V005 (AIRABRAD) at GES DISC AMSU-A 2002-05-21 to Present 005 ACTIVE Brightness Temperature
AIRS/Aqua L1B Calibration subset V005 (AIRXBCAL) at GES DISC AIRS 2002-08-31 to Present 005 ACTIVE Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Longwave Radiation, INFRARED FLUX, Infrared Radiance, THERMAL INFRARED
AIRS/Aqua L1B HSB geolocated and calibrated brightness temperatures V005 (AIRHBRAD) at GES DISC HSB 2002-05-24 to 2003-11-20 005 COMPLETE Brightness Temperature
AIRS/Aqua L1B Infrared (IR) geolocated and calibrated radiances V005 (AIRIBRAD) at GES DISC AIRS 2002-08-30 to Present 005 ACTIVE Dust/Ash/Smoke, Sulfur Dioxide, Infrared Radiance
AIRS/Aqua L1B Infrared (IR) geolocated and calibrated radiances V8.0 (AIRSAQIRL1B) at GES DISC at GES DISC AIRS 2002-08-30 to Present 8.0 ACTIVE Dust/Ash/Smoke, Sulfur Dioxide, Infrared Radiance
AIRS/Aqua L1B Infrared (IR) quality assurance subset V005 (AIRIBQAP) at GES DISC AIRS 2002-08-30 to Present 005 ACTIVE Infrared Radiance
AIRS/Aqua L1B Near Real Time (NRT) AMSU (A1/A2) geolocated and calibrated brightness temperatures V005 (AIRABRAD_NRT) at GES DISC AMSU-A 2015-12-15 to Present 005 ACTIVE Brightness Temperature

Aqua Data Tools

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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
FLOOD The FLOOD viewer facilitates the use and evaluation of LANCE flood products by allowing the user to browse globally and over time, and to compare to other flood products. Monitoring Natural Events, Search and Discovery, 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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