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OPERA Land Surface Disturbance Alert from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 product (Version 1) 1 Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B, Sentinel-2C, LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-9 Sentinel-2 MSI, OLI 2022-01-01 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

30 Meters x 30 Meters COG
OPERA Land Surface Disturbance Alert from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 provisional product (Version 0) 0 Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B, Sentinel-2C, LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-9 Sentinel-2 MSI, OLI 2022-01-01 to 2024-02-26

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

30 Meters x 30 Meters COG
OPERA Land Surface Disturbance Annual from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 product (Version 1) 1 Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B, Sentinel-2C, LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-9 Sentinel-2 MSI, OLI 2023-01-01 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

30 Meters x 30 Meters COG
PEM Tropics A Satellite Data 1 SATELLITES, GOES-9, GOES-8, NOAA-14 AVHRR, TOVS, SSMIS 1996-08-28 to 1999-04-16

N: 41 S: -61.93 E: 180 W: -180

GTE, EPS, GIF, JPEG
Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) 2006.00 MODELS Computer 1994-01-01 to 2006-12-31

N: 90 S: -55 E: 180 W: -180

Excel, PDF, PNG
Population Exposure Estimates in Proximity to Nuclear Power Plants, Country-Level Aggregates 1.0 MODELS Computer 1990-01-01, 2000-01-01, 2010-01-01

N: 83.63 S: -55.77 E: 180 W: -180

Excel
Population Exposure Estimates in Proximity to Nuclear Power Plants, Locations 1.0 MODELS Computer 1956-01-01 to 2012-12-31

N: 68.05 S: -34 E: 166.45 W: -124.21

CSV, Shapefile, WMS
Post-fire Recovery of Soil Organic Layer Carbon in Canadian Boreal Forests, 2015-2018 1 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, CHN ANALYZERS, CORING DEVICES 2015-06-11 to 2018-08-24

N: 68.3256 S: 59.7883 E: -104.194 W: -132.671

CSV
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on World Food Supply: Datasets from a Major Crop Modeling Study 1.00 MODELS Computer 1995-01-01 to 2110-12-31

N: 90 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180

Excel
Poverty Mapping Project: Global Subnational Infant Mortality Rates 1.0 MODELS Computer 2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31

N: 85 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

ASCII Grid, Excel, Shapefile, PDF, PNG, WMS
Poverty Mapping Project: Global Subnational Prevalence of Child Malnutrition 1.0 MODELS Computer 1990-01-01 to 2002-12-31

N: 85 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

ASCII Grid, Excel, Shapefile, PDF, PNG, WMS
Poverty Mapping Project: Poverty and Food Security Case Studies 1.0 MODELS Computer 1998-01-01 to 2002-12-31

N: 90 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180

CSV, Shapefile
Poverty Mapping Project: Small Area Estimates of Poverty and Inequality 1.0 MODELS Computer 1990-01-01 to 2002-12-31

N: 90 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180

CSV, Shapefile, PDF, PNG
Poverty Mapping Project: Unsatisfied Basic Needs 1.00 MODELS Computer 1998-01-01 to 2001-12-31

N: 33 S: -60 E: -26 W: -119

CSV, Shapefile
Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) 1.00 MODELS Computer 1940-01-01 to 1990-12-31

N: 73 S: 18 E: -66 W: -180

BNA
Remote Sensing Data Before and After California Rim and King Forest Fires, 2010-2015 1 NASA ER-2 NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROMETER, LIDAR, AVIRIS 2010-07-21 to 2015-01-15

N: 39.2193 S: 37.657 E: -119.57 W: -120.81

GeoTIFF
Remote Sensing Derived Topsoil and Agricultural Economic Losses, Midwestern USA 1 LANDSAT, WORLDVIEW-2, WORLDVIEW-3 Computer 2003-04-01 to 2018-07-31

N: 46.0461 S: 40.0397 E: -86.986 W: -97.3245

multiple
RLC Selected Infrastructure Data for the Former Soviet Union, 1993 1 MAPS DIGITIZER 1993-01-01 to 1993-12-31

N: 71 S: 23.21 E: 180 W: 25

multiple
RLC State and Regional Boundaries for the Former Soviet Union 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1998-08-01 to 1999-08-03

N: 71 S: 23.21 E: 180 W: 25

multiple
SAFARI 2000 1-Degree Estimates of Burned Biomass, Area, and Emissions, 2000 1 MODELS, SPOT-4, ERS-2, Terra Computer, MULTI-SPECTRAL, ATSR, MODIS 2000-08-01 to 2000-09-30

N: 0 S: -36 E: 56 W: -18

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Biomass Burning Emissions, Selected Sites, Dry Season 2000 1 LABORATORY CHEMILUMINESCENCE, ION CHROMATOGRAPHS, GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS, IR CO2 ANALYZER 2000-11-24 to 2001-01-16

N: 0 S: -35 E: 50 W: 10

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Emissions Estimates, MODIS Burned Area Product, Dry Season 2000 1 Terra MODIS 2000-08-31 to 2000-09-30

N: 0.3389 S: -34.1425 E: 46.6473 W: 9.6738

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Gas Emissions from Biofuel Use and Production, September 2000 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS 2000-09-10 to 2000-09-16

N: -14.86 S: -14.86 E: 24.82 W: 24.82

CSV
SAFARI 2000 Global Burned Area Map, 1-km, Southern Africa, 2000 1 SPOT-4 MULTI-SPECTRAL 2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31

N: 18 S: -35 E: 55 W: -18

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Historical Fire Maps, Kruger National Park, 1992-2001 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1992-05-11 to 2001-03-31

N: -22.327 S: -25.529 E: 32.034 W: 30.888

Shapefile
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Human Dimensions Data Tools

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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
POWER DAV The POWER project’s Data Access Viewer (DAV) is an interactive web-mapping application that provides access to NASA’s customized solar and meteorological data catalog. Analysis, Downloading, Subsetting, Visualization
POWER PRUVE PRUVE is an online validation tool created by NASA's Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project that compares surface satellite-based and assimilation data products to in-situ surface site measurements. Analysis, Visualization
RTC Stack Processor The radiometric terrain correction (RTC) stack processor tool facilitates time-series analysis of such phenomena as flooding events, deforestation, or glacier retreat. Analysis, Processing, Search and Discovery, Visualization
SEDAC Map Viewer With the SEDAC Map Viewer, users can view up to 4 SEDAC map layers, either as four separately synched maps or as overlays in a single map. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
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
STREAM STREAM is a rapid water quality monitoring tool that processes satellite imagery to create maps showing chlorophyll-a, Total Suspended Solids, and water clarity at 20-30 meter resolution. Processing
TESViS The Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services Global Subsets Tool provides on-demand, customized subsets of several terrestrial ecology data products. Visualization, Subsetting
VEDA NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities. Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing
Vertex Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, Subsetting
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