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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
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
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
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
Delta-X: UAVSAR L1 Single Look Complex (SLC) Stack Products, MRD, Louisiana, 2021 1.1 G-III UAVSAR 2021-03-27 to 2021-09-13

N: 29.7804 S: 29.0131 E: -90.1331 W: -91.8333

multiple
Delta-X: AirSWOT Level 1B Interferogram Products in Radar Coordinates, 2021 1.1 B-200 AirSWOT 2021-03-26 to 2021-09-12

N: 29.7961 S: 29.0711 E: -90.5817 W: -91.5378

multiple
Delta-X: UAVSAR L1B Interferometric Products, MRD, Louisiana, 2021 1.1 G-III UAVSAR 2021-03-27 to 2021-09-13

N: 29.7856 S: 28.9827 E: -90.1334 W: -91.6574

ENVI
Delta-X: UAVSAR L2 Interferometric Products, MRD, Louisiana, 2021 1.1 G-III UAVSAR 2021-03-27 to 2021-09-13

N: 29.7799 S: 29.0133 E: -90.1333 W: -91.5893

ENVI
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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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