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NASA's OPERA Project Releases Troposphere Zenith Radar Delays Dataset

This mission-agnostic dataset allows scientists to enhance airborne and spaceborne radar measurements by reducing the atmospheric noise that can obscure ground motion signals.

News

Sept. 19, 2025

Now That NISAR Launched, Here's What You Can Expect From the Data

The NISAR mission kicks off a new era in Earth observation, with two powerful radars tracking planetary change in unprecedented detail.

News

Aug. 4, 2025

ICESat-2 30-meter gridded canopy height map across the contiguous US based upon ICESat-2 canopy heights and ancillary Landsat, LANDFIRE and topographic variables for 2020.

Laser Altimetry Applications for a Changing World: Working with ICESat-2 Land and Vegetation Height Data

Join us on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at 2 p.m. EST (-05:00 UTC) to learn how to work with NASA's ICESat-2 land and vegetation height data. A live demonstration will showcase the SlideRule Earth web service which provides on-demand science data processing of ICESat-2 and other geospatial data.

Webinar

Jan. 31, 2025

A segment of an image of ASTER registered radiance data over Guatemala on January 8, 2018

NASA Begins Final ASTER Data Processing Campaign

The final processing of Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data will make its archive more accessible to users.

Feature Article

Jan. 21, 2025

Location of NASA ICESat-2 (ATL13) data (Inland Water Product) from April 25, 2023 over Lake Powell, Utah, United States, viewed in OpenAltimetry.

Laser Altimetry Applications for a Changing World: Explore ICESat-2 Data

This is the first in a four-part webinar series to introduce NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation-2 (ICESat-2) platform and the platform's data, tools, and applications.

Webinar

Oct. 28, 2024

This a square image of a portion of Eastern Texas. The image was taken by the TEMPO spacecraft and shows nitrogen dioxide gas levels across the region. A majority of the image is colored blue indicating lower levels of gas. The upper left corner of the image shows the city of Dallas colored in orange, red, and black indicating increasingly higher levels of gas. In the lower middle of the image is Houston, again colored in orange, red, and black indicating increasingly higher levels of gas.

NASA Identifies Activities to Address U.S. Satellite Observation Needs

Assessment of the 2022 Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) survey identified six science activities to address U.S. Federal civilian agency satellite needs.

News

July 18, 2024

Dr. Philip Brodrick

NASA has long used imaging spectroscopy to peer into space. Now, scientists are using the technology to take a closer look at Earth.

Data User Story

Feb. 15, 2024

true-color image of north africa and the strait of gibraltar with two green lines on right indicating ICESat-2 orbit; colored dots on green line indicate available data

Visualize and Explore Surface Elevation Data with OpenAltimetry

OpenAltimetry, a cyberinfrastructure platform for working with data from NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) and ICESat-2 missions, is now a full NASA Earth science application.

News

Oct. 5, 2023

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