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A map of the GLanCE30 Land Cover for the Waubay National Wildlife Refuge in northeast South Dakota on 2002-07-01. The map shows water in blue and herbaceous in tan color which cover the majority of this region. The are smaller patches shown in red which are developed area.

Get Started with GLanCE30

This Jupyter Notebook shows users how to find and access Global Land Cover Mapping and Estimation Yearly 30 meter (GLanCE30) data.
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Jupyter Notebook
July 23, 2025
data plot points and swaths

HLS SuPER Script

Find, download, and subset HLS data from a command line executable.
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GitHub Repository
April 16, 2025
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Image of a lake with bright green along shore indicating algal blooms and colored dots indicating higher probabilities of these blooms

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.
Blog
Feb. 13, 2024
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.

Improving Fire Detection in the Amazon

NASA researchers are tweaking algorithms and combining data from multiple satellites to track tropical forest fires in Brazil.
Feature Article
Feb. 1, 2024
pink sand lake in the middle of brown terrain

Lake Bumbunga, South Australia

Image captured on Jan 20, 2024, by the OLI and OLI-2 instruments aboard the NASA/USGS Landsat 8 and 9 satellites.
Worldview Image of the Week
Jan. 25, 2024
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