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Land Surface News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Land Surface.
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
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
Image captured June 10, 2025, by the MODIS and AIRS instruments aboard the Aqua platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
June 13, 2025
Explore OPERA’s near-global land surface disturbance at 30-meter resolution.
News
June 13, 2025
The OPERA Level 3 displacement products provide detailed information on land surface changes, and include the first open-access InSAR time-series displacement products available over North America.
News
May 22, 2025
Image for May 8, 2025, derived from OPERA's Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 Land Surface Disturbance data.
Worldview Image of the Week
May 15, 2025
Join us on Thursday, May 29, to learn about the NASA JPL OPERA Surface Displacement (OPERA-DISP) dataset and how to access and explore the data using ASF DAAC's Displacement Portal.
Webinar
May 14, 2025
Access Sea Surface Salinity with Sea Ice Mask, a NASA Satellite Needs Working Group solution, to discern salinity values close to the sea ice edge.
News
May 7, 2025