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Coastal Processes Data Access and Tools
From discovery to visualization, data tools such as Earthdata Search, Worldview, and Vertex guide users in making the most of coastal processes data.
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Featured Coastal Landforms Observation Method: NISAR
Launching in 2025, the joint NASA/ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) platform will create global maps to provide a better understanding of changes in Earth’s ecosystems, ice mass, vegetation biomass, sea level rise, ground water, and natural hazards.
The upcoming NISAR satellite mission is expected to add as much as 85 TB of data each day to the EOSDIS archive. The commercial cloud is being explored as a way to archive and disseminate this extremely high volume of data efficiently.
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The NASA/Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) SAR (NISAR) project team has created sample products using JAXA ALOS-1 PALSAR data as a surrogate for NISAR.
This video features Day 1 of the NISAR ISRO Community Workshop held on Aug. 3, 2023. It includes an introduction to SAR, Vertex, InSAR, and HyP3.
Explore 25 tutorials that demonstrate how to use NISAR sample data in a GIS environment; using Panoply; and transforming the data using GDAL commands.
Coastal Processes Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthdata Search | Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings. | Search and Discovery, Access, Cataloging, Cloud Computing, Downloading | |
| Ocean Color Level 3 and 4 Browser | The Ocean Color Level 3 and 4 Browser allows users to view, download, or order global composites at various spatial and temporal scales (level 3) or get results from analyses of lower-level data (level 4). | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| Panoply | Panoply is a cross-platform application that plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets. | Visualization, Customization, Reformatting, Subsetting, Comparison | |
| SeaDAS | Sea, earth, atmosphere Data Analysis System (SeaDAS) is a comprehensive image analysis package for the processing, display, analysis, and quality control of ocean color data. | Analysis, Visualization, Processing | |
| SOTO | State of the Ocean (SOTO) is an interactive web-based tool that generates informative maps, animations, and plots that communicate and prove the discovery and analysis of the state of the oceans. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| Vertex | Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. | Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, 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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