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Terrestrial Hydrosphere Data Access and Tools

NASA data examine many characteristics of the liquid and frozen water and the dynamic processes they are part of across Earth’s landscape. Our datasets and tools help researchers translate these interconnected data points into actionable knowledge.

Terrestrial Hydrosphere Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
Pre SWOT Hydrology Global Lake/Reservoir Surface Inland Water Area Extent V2 2 Aqua, Terra MODIS 2000-02-18 to 2016-10-15

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

0.002 Decimal Degrees x 0.004 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
NRT AMSR2 Unified L3 Global Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent V2 2 GCOM-W1 AMSR2 2021-04-15

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

HDF-EOS5
Pre-Delta-X: UAVSAR Georeferenced Channel Maps, Atchafalaya Basin, LA, USA, 2016, V2 2 G-III UAVSAR 2016-10-16 to 2016-10-17

N: 29.7584 S: 29.3561 E: -91.0575 W: -91.622

GeoTIFF
Pre SWOT Hydrology GRRATS Daily River Heights and Storage Version 2 2 OSTM/JASON-2, TOPEX/POSEIDON, ENVISAT, JASON-3, JASON-1, ERS-2 POSEIDON-3, ALT (TOPEX), RA-2, POSEIDON-3B, POSEIDON-2, ALTIMETERS 1992-04-06 to 2018-04-20

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

netCDF-4
SnowEx20 Time Series Snow Pit Measurements V002 2 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS A2 Photonic_WISe, GPS, MICROSCOPES, SNOW DENSITY CUTTER, THERMOMETERS 2019-10-24 to 2020-05-20

N: 44.30455 S: 35.85794 E: -105.54616 W: -120.29897

PDF, JPEG, CSV, Excel
VIIRS/JPSS1+JPSS2 Daily L3 Global Flood Composite 250m Linear Lat Lon Grid - NRT 2 NOAA-20, NOAA-21, Suomi-NPP VIIRS 2025-04-15 to Present

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

250 Meters x 250 Meters EOS5
Water Quality and Spectral Reflectance, Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada, 2010-2011 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, SPECTROMETERS, DRIFTING BUOYS, FLUOROMETERS, STEEL MEASURING TAPE, THERMISTORS, TURBIDITY METERS, CONDUCTIVITY METERS, BALANCE 2010-06-21 to 2011-07-06

N: 58.9931 S: 58.3881 E: -110.839 W: -111.928

CSV
Delta-X: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Channel Surveys, MRD, Louisiana, 2021, V2 2 FIELD SURVEYS ADCP 2021-03-25 to 2021-09-25

N: 29.7044 S: 29.1575 E: -90.6741 W: -91.4522

multiple
IceBridge Snow Radar L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles V002 2 C-130, DC-8, DHC-3, G-V, P-3B, WP-3D ORION SNOW RADAR 2009-03-31 to 2021-05-13

N: -53 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

,

N: 90 S: 60 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4, XML, JPEG
Pre SWOT Hydrology GRRATS Virtual Station River Heights Version 2 2 OSTM/JASON-2, ERS-1, ENVISAT, JASON-3, JASON-1, ERS-2 POSEIDON-3, ALTIMETERS, RA-2, POSEIDON-3B, POSEIDON-2 1992-04-06 to 2018-04-20

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

250 Meters x 500 Meters netCDF-4
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Terrestrial Hydrosphere Data Tools

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Tool Description Services
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
WISP The Water Information from Space (WISP) is an interactive dashboard for displaying satellite hydrology data. Monitoring Natural Events, Visualization
Worldview Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events
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