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An HLS image from June 27, 2025, showing smoke rising out of Mt. Etna.

Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Data Now Available on Microsoft's Planetary Computer

The addition of HLS data to Azure provides a foundation for next-generation Earth observation capabilities.

Blog

Sept. 30, 2025

OPERA Vegetation Disturbance Status layer from 18 August 2025 showing burned area in shades of yellow to red as a result of the Gifford Fire, CA.

Vegetation Disturbance from the Gifford Fire

Image for August 18, 2025, derived from OPERA's Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 Land Surface Disturbance data.

Worldview Image of the Week

Aug. 28, 2025

RGB composite AVIRIS-Classic image over Irvine, California, on May 10, 2006.

Plot to Plane: Working with NASA and NEON Airborne and Field Datasets

In this Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting short course, learn how to access and work with National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and NASA airborne and field datasets.

Event

July 16, 2025

Fundamentals to Use Hyperspectral and Thermal NASA Earth Observations

Join us for a two-day webinar covering the fundamentals necessary to work with NASA's high-spectral resolution land-based Earth observation data from NASA's EMIT, ECOSTRESS, and PACE missions.

Event

July 14, 2025

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.

News

June 23, 2025

wetland and coastal distribution of bird data over North America

New Data in Action: Citizen Science and MODIS Data Reveal Patterns of Bird Population Change

Researchers from Cornell's eBird project used observations from amateur birdwatchers and NASA data to better understand the decline in avian populations throughout North America.

News

June 17, 2025