Platforms
NASA operates state-of-the-art platforms that collect critical information about our home planet. Drill down to the data and tools you need by exploring platforms on Earth and in the sky.
Instruments
From the ground and into space, instruments aboard NASA platforms collect a vast array of Earth science data.
Space Geodesy Techniques
These data are used to support scientific and societal applications Earth observations, positioning, navigation, and timing.
Atmosphere
The atmosphere is a gaseous envelope surrounding and protecting our planet from the intense radiation of the Sun.
Biosphere
The biosphere encompasses all life on Earth and extends from root systems to mountaintops and all depths of the ocean.
Climate Indicators
Climate Indicators hold key information for the most relevant domains of climate change: temperature and energy, atmospheric composition, ocean and water as well as the cryosphere.
Cryosphere
The cryosphere encompasses the frozen parts of Earth, including glaciers and ice sheets, sea ice, and any other frozen body of water.
Human Dimensions
The human dimensions discipline includes ways humans interact with the environment and how these interactions impact Earth’s systems.
Land Surface
The land surface discipline includes research into areas such as shrinking forests, warming land, and eroding soils.
Ocean
This vast, critical reservoir supports a diversity of life and helps regulate Earth’s climate.
Solid Earth
Processes occurring deep within Earth constantly are shaping landforms.
Sun-Earth Interactions
The Sun influences physical and chemical processes in Earth’s atmosphere.
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
The terrestrial hydrosphere includes water on the land surface and underground in the form of lakes, rivers, and groundwater along with total water storage.
Earth Observation Data Basics
Get a better idea of what we mean when we use basic Earth data terms like remote sensing or data processing level.
GIS Resources
Find all of the resources we have available for the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) community.
Data in Action
Data in Action demonstrates Earth science data applications with interactive explanations as to how the work was accomplished.
Data Recipes
Data Recipes are code-based instructions that help data scientists accomplish a specific task, such as converting data into a specific format for analysis or visualization.
Tutorials
Tutorials are step by step “how to” content that cover a broad range of tasks, from data collection to visualization.
Webinars
Webinars are video seminars featuring experts in various disciplines who share their knowledge in a particular subject area, from data in the cloud to specific data tools.
Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs)
Science Investigator-led Processing Systems (SIPS)
Airborne and Field Data Resource Center
All of the resources for the airborne and field data community within our program can be found here.
Open Data, Services, and Software Policies
Open Science and Data Management Plan
ESDS Leadership
Meet the Earth Science Data Systems Program leadership team.
Organizational Chart
View the internal structure of the ESDS Program.
Multi-Mission Data Processing System Study
We are considering the right data processing system for open-source data.
Program Performance and Metrics
Access overall ingest, archive, and distribution metrics for the ESDS program.
News
View the latest updates from Earthdata.
Events
Sign up or watch a past recording of events covering Earth science data topics.
Worldview Image of the Week
Learn about the Earth through the lens of NASA’s Worldview.
Subscribe to the Earthdata Newsletter
Feature Articles
Read stories inspired by NASA Earth science data.
Data User Stories
Discover how people are researching with NASA Earth science data.
Earthdata Blog
Take a deeper dive into NASA Earth science data.
The latest update to the Global COVID-19 Viewer: Population Estimates by Age Group and Sex features enhanced capabilities for visualizing the status and reach of the pandemic around the world, daily and over time since its beginning, and to identify at-risk populations. A pop-up trends graph illustrates daily and 7-day moving averages of COVID-19 cases and deaths for a range of select time scales—one month, three months, six months, and beyond. The graph may be accessed by simply clicking on a country.
The Global COVID-19 Viewer map from September 25, 2020, shows the prevalence of COVID-19 cases, defined as the total number of cases per 100,000 people, for the United States and parts of Canada and Mexico since early in the pandemic.
User-friendly mapping tools let users define a custom area or fly to a location of interest. Users may also easily move up or down administrative levels in many countries and view demographic and urbanization estimates relevant to possible risk factors for the virus. The Global COVID-19 Viewer was developed by NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), managed by Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). The underlying population data are from SEDAC’s Gridded Population of the World (GPW) Basic Demographic Characteristics, v4.11, for the year 2010, with estimates to 2020. The COVID-19 data are from Johns Hopkins University & Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center.
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