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AppEEARS QGIS Plugin Now Available

The AppEEARS QGIS Plugin enables users to browse completed requests from AppEEARS and load cloud-optimized GeoTIFF output files directly into QGIS.

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June 23, 2025

Hurricane Ida is shown in bright swirling greens, yellows, and oranges against a dark background

Find Earthdata in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

The atlas now features NASA Earth science data formatted specifically for geographic information systems (GIS) users.

Feature Article

Jan. 7, 2025

This image shows the globe color coded to indicate its surface type. Most of the image is black to indicate calm water, the ocean, or dry sand. Rough water is depicted in shades of purple. The continents are shaded in green where there is vegetation, and white where there are urban areas or little vegetation.

Sentinel-1 Radar Products Certified to Plug-and-Play Metadata Standard

The radiometric terrain corrected synthetic aperture radar data are NASA’s first to meet Committee on Earth Observations Satellites specifications.

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Dec. 11, 2024

Against a bright yellow and orange background, a dark shape with a glowing light-yellow center dominates the center of this data visualization of Hawaii climate.

Celebrate GIS Day 2024

To celebrate GIS Day, take a peek at these illuminating examples of NASA Earth Science leveraging Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to understand our home planet.

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Nov. 20, 2024

Registration Now Open for the 2024 NASA International Space Apps Challenge

This year’s hackathon will be held Oct 5 and 6 and feature NASA-created challenges along with 400 local events around the world.

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Sept. 13, 2024

Earthdata graphic identifier on top of chart data

Tutorials Available for Working with NISAR Sample Data

New tutorials available for working with NASA/Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) SAR (NISAR) sample data.

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Aug. 20, 2024

A graphic showing the locations of GNSS stations in North America, Central America, a portion of South America, Greenland, western Eurpoe, and western Africa.

No Longer Just an Experiment: 30 Years of the IGS

The International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Service (IGS), a voluntary federation of more than 200 self-funding entities, celebrates three decades of providing high-quality data.

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Feb. 29, 2024

This two-layer graphic shows a yellow and white smiley face atop a land aerosol optical depth image collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites. The smiley face is placed on a white background gridded by 144 squares with thin blue lines. The grid is grouped into 16 larger tiles bordered by thicker blue lines. The MODIS image is placed below the smiley face and primarily consists of colors fading from dark blue to aquamarine.

New Standard Announced for Using GeoTIFF Imagery in the Cloud

The new standard allows for efficient downloading and processing of Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) files.

Feature Article

Jan. 5, 2024

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AppEEARS QGIS Plugin Now Available

Find Earthdata in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

Sentinel-1 Radar Products Certified to Plug-and-Play Metadata Standard

Celebrate GIS Day 2024

Registration Now Open for the 2024 NASA International Space Apps Challenge

Tutorials Available for Working with NISAR Sample Data

No Longer Just an Experiment: 30 Years of the IGS

New Standard Announced for Using GeoTIFF Imagery in the Cloud

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