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vegetation index anomalies visualization predicting Rift Valley Fever

Learn to Use Remote Sensing for Climate-Sensitive Infectious Diseases

This training, offered by NASA's ARSET program, explores how to use NASA satellite data to predict and monitor infectious diseases.

News

Sept. 5, 2025

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New Features and Data Added to U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center Portal

Interactive stories along with urban-relevant datasets are the latest updates to the portal.

News

Oct. 30, 2024

This screen capture from NASA Worldview shows the locations of widespread thermal anomalies and smoke haze in Thailand and neighboring Cambodia.

FIRMS Helps Thai Officials Manage Fire and Smoke Haze

Geographer Veerachai Tanpipat promotes the use of NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) throughout the Lower Mekong River Region.

Feature Article

Aug. 20, 2024

True-color corrected reflectance image overlaid with aerosol optical depth from the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite. Image also has AERONET sites showing aerosol optical depth.

High Aerosol Optical Depth from Canadian Wildfires

Base corrected reflectance image with aerosol optical thickness acquired on August 15, 2024, by the Suomi NPP/VIIRS instrument overlaid with AERONET sites showing ground-based aerosol optical depth measurements.

Worldview Image of the Week

Aug. 16, 2024

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Training the Next Generation of Data Communicators

A NASA-funded project is helping U.S. college students learn how to work with ECOSTRESS mission data and communicate the science behind these data.

News

July 23, 2024

New Beta Release for U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center Portal

New carbon dioxide and methane data, expanded spatial and temporal resolution for several datasets, and an enhanced data exploration environment are some of the updates in this beta release.

News

June 4, 2024

This image from the first light release of data from the TEMPO mission shows areas air pollution over the New York City and Washington, DC.

TEMPO Mission Releases Beta Level 1, 2, and 3 Version 03 Data Products

The beta release of Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission data products lets users begin developing applications using these data.

News

May 30, 2024

Speeding Greenhouse Gas Data Access

The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center expedites the use of Earth science data related to methane, carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gas datasets by offering openly available information in a central location.

Blog

March 26, 2024

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