Earthdata has a range of tutorials, data recipes, and webinars for users interested in learning more about how to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with NASA Earth science data. Explore our GIS-related learning resources below.

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2025 NASA POWER Global Community Summit

Join NASA's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) team for a virtual Global Community Summit Sept. 9-10, 2025, to learn about POWER, exchange insights, and to explore new opportunities to support user communities.

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Aug. 6, 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

Stream NASA Earthdata Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs using QGIS

A walkthrough to set up QGIS to stream cloud-optimized GeoTIFF files from NASA Earthdata.

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GitHub Repository

June 25, 2024

Earthdata graphic identifier on top of chart data

Esri Federal GIS Conference 2025

Our Earth Data Officer, Katie Baynes, spoke at the Federal GIS Conference Plenary. In case you missed her presentation, here is a story map for you to catch up on how NASA Earth data can be leveraged in your GIS project.

StoryMap

March 5, 2025

Calculating Spectral Indices for Land and Aquatic Applications Using QGIS

This ARSET training provides an overview of spectral indices for land and aquatic applications as they are calculated with the QGIS platform.

Training

Feb. 27, 2025

NISAR in GIS

Work with data from the NASA/ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) platform in ArcGIS Pro.

StoryMap

Feb. 26, 2025

This image shows the frame of an animation of inundation in the Amazon rain forest. Credit: Chapman, Guritz 2016; RTC: ASF 2015; Includes Material ©JAXA/METI 2007.

Map Regional Inundation with Spaceborne L-band SAR using ArcGIS

This data recipe describes methods used to create an inundation animation from PALSAR RTC and map that quantifies the number of events from the data.

Data Recipe

Oct. 2, 2024

This Sentinel-1 image capturing the Mississippi River has been processed into a GIS-compatible format and imported for ease of use. Credit: Copernicus Sentinel data 2017, processed by ESA.

Geocode Sentinel-1 with ArcGIS

This data recipe shows how to geocode Sentinel-1 GRD products in ArcGIS using the Project Raster tool.

Data Recipe

Oct. 2, 2024

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2025 NASA POWER Global Community Summit

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

Stream NASA Earthdata Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs using QGIS

Esri Federal GIS Conference 2025

Calculating Spectral Indices for Land and Aquatic Applications Using QGIS

NISAR in GIS

Map Regional Inundation with Spaceborne L-band SAR using ArcGIS

Geocode Sentinel-1 with ArcGIS

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