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An ASTER image showing part of the San Quintín Glacier, the largest in southern Chile’s Northern Patagonia Icefield.

GLIMS Database Advances Glacier Monitoring from Space

The Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Glacier Database provides timely data on more than 200,000 glaciers around the world.

Feature Article

April 8, 2025

$ATL24 data for Marathon, Florida, illustrating the automatic detection and processing of ICESat-2 bathymetry. The top panel shows the location of the ATL24 segment extending from Vaca Key Bight south approximately 4 km. The bottom panel shows the ATL24 bathymetry profile from the shoreline to depths of 12 m. Aqua points correspond to detected sea surface, blue to bathymetry, and white to low-confidence bathymetry. Refraction correction has been applied to all bathymetric points.$

Laser Altimetry Applications for a Changing World: Working with ICESat-2 Bathymetry Data

Join us on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at 2 p.m. EDT (-04:00 UTC) to learn how to discover, access, and work with a new Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) bathymetric data product, ATL24.

Webinar

March 24, 2025

This rectangular aerial image shows a grove of green pine trees with snow covering the ground.

X-Snow Project Fills Gap in East Coast Snow Data

This citizen science research effort is creating a flurry of excitement for measuring snow in the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains.

News

March 14, 2025

False-color corrected reflectance image overlaid with the 3-day Flood Window layer showing flooding in Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana on 25 February 2025 from the MODIS instrument aboard the Terra satellite

Flooding in Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana, USA

Image captured on February 25, 2025, by the MODIS instrument aboard the Terra platform.

Worldview Image of the Week

Feb. 27, 2025

True-color image of Lake Pontchartrain and New Orleans on 2 February 2025 from the OLI instrument aboard the Landsat 8 satellite

New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain Before the Super Bowl

Image captured on February 2, 2025, from the OLI instrument aboard the Landsat 8 satellite.

Worldview Image of the Week

Feb. 6, 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

Chinese Liaoning and Shandong carriers docked at Yulin Naval Base, captured in a high-resolution SAR image by Capella Space. © 2025 Capella Space.

NASA CSDA Program Vendor Focus—Capella Space

Learn more about the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program vendor Capella Space and how to discover, access, and work with their SAR data products.

Webinar

Dec. 30, 2024

The rectangular image is a map of the St. Simons Island area of coastal Georgia. Land is colored white, roadways are black, inundated vegetation area are green, and water is colored blue. The Atlantic Ocean is in the lower-right of the image and its blue shaded area extends into waterways along the coast.

New Product Provides Detailed Maps of Water In and Around Landmasses

Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data are used to create maps of surface water extent for research, planning, and disaster response.

News

Oct. 28, 2024

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