Land
Land Data at EOSDIS
Land products involve two related Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) disciplines. Land Surface includes geophysical processes and parameters involving the Earth’s land surfaces (e.g., surface temperature, soil moisture, vegetation cover, and land use). The Solid Earth discipline includes data sets related to processes arising in the Earth’s interior (e.g., gravity, geomagnetism, tectonics) which, although originating from below the surface, still can be analyzed from ground, air, or space-based measurements. EOSDIS DAACs hold approximately 1300 land surface and solid earth data sets, with some products overlapping other disciplines, such as frozen ground also within the Cryosphere discipline and some surface radiative property data sets contained also in the Atmosphere discipline. The primary DAACs specializing in this discipline are CDDIS, LP DAAC and ORNL DAAC. Several other DAACs also hold land data as they relate to their respective disciplines. Near real-time data for Land applications can be found at the Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE).
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CDDIS LP DAAC ORNL DAAC ASDC DAAC ASF DAAC GES DISC GHRC DAAC LAADS NSIDC DAAC OB.DAAC SEDAC
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Learn more about Land Data at EOSDIS
Learn more about Land Data at EOSDIS by reading Sensing Our Planet articles that feature research utilizing Earth Observing data from the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) and watch NASA Earthdata Webinar videos to learn more about NASA Earth science data sets, services and tools to discover, access and use these data. There is also an land discipline reference sheet available from the Outreach Products page.
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Shake, rattle, and sink
Read this Sensing Our Planet article to find out why volcanoes find earthquakes quite unsettling.
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Webinar: Discover New Data Products at the NASA LP DAAC
In collaboration with the Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program, the LP DAAC is working to facilitate the introduction of long-term, consistent, high quality data records to the land remote sensing community. Two recent NASA MEaSUREs products that have been released at the LP DAAC include Shuttle Radar Topology Mission Plus (SRTM Plus) and Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD). This webinar will focus on the new NASA MEaSUREs data products. Topics will include an introduction to SRTM Plus and WELD data, data use examples, information about how to discover and access these data, and highlights for future NASA MEaSUREs products at the LP DAAC.
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Webinar: Know your Landsat: Understanding and Accessing Landsat Data
Interested in Landsat Data Discovery and Access? This joint USGS/NASA webinar will provide participants with information about the basic technology for Landsat missions, data applications, data search-and-order, and educational resources and tools.
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Webinar: How To Access NASA ASTER and MODIS Data with Earth Explorer Tool
The USGS EarthExplorer (EE) tool provides users the ability to query, search, and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products from several sources, including the USGS and NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC).
Last Updated: Dec 28, 2016 at 3:15 PM EST