Welcome to LANCE

Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS

LANCE provides access to near-real time (NRT) data products from the MODIS (Terra and Aqua), AMSR-E (Aqua), AIRS (Aqua), MLS (Aura), and OMI (Aura) instruments in less than 3 hours of the observation time. Imagery is also available through the Rapid Response system and fire alerts, data, and a web mapping application are available through the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).

LANCE supports a wide variety of applications users who are interested in monitoring natural and man-made hazards. Science quality products, that are generally available within 24 - 48 hours of observation, are available from other data centers to support science analysis. LANCE products are freely available but registration is required.

The following data centers are the elements that produce data for LANCE:

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AMSR-E SIPS

AMSR-E SIPS generates a variety of L2A, L2B, and L3 products including surface soil moisture, rain rate, snow water equivalent, and sea ice concentration. The daily, tiled L3 products are updated incrementally as new data become available. Browse data products and sub-setting tools are planned.

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GES DISC

GES DISC provides L1 and L2 data products from the Aqua AIRS instument suite and, in corporation with the MLS Team, L2 ozone and atmospheric temperature data from the MLS instrument aboard the Aura spacecraft. Several image formats from selected parameters are also available via a Web Map Service (WMS).

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MODAPS

MODAPS provides a range of MODIS products from the Aqua and Terra spacecraft including clouds/aerosols, water vapor, fires, snow, sea ice, land surface reflectance, and land surface temperature. Browse data are available for most products. A variety of tools are available for sub-setting, re-projection, and generating several data formats.

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OMI SIPS

OMI-SIPS provides products from OMI, a wide swath, nadir viewing, near-UV and visible spectrograph that measures ozone columns, aerosols, clouds, surface ultraviolet (UV) irradiance, and the trace gases Sulfuric Dioxide (SO2). Browse data are available for most products.



sign-up

LANCE is now using the EOSDIS User Registration System. If you haven't already, please register for a username and password to access our FTP site.

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