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"Stage for Delivery" orders in NASA's Earthdata Search will be disabled between Tuesday, May 30, 6 pm (US Mountain Time) and Thursday, June 1, 7 am (US Mountain Time) for planned system maintenance. During this period, users will not be able to request data using this access method. All other download methods will remain available (except during the NSIDC DAAC scheduled downtime).
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On Wednesday, May 31st from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (US Mountain Time), the following data collections may not be available due to planned system maintenance: ASO, AMSR Unified, AMSR-E, Aquarius, High Mountain Asia, IceBridge, ICESat/GLAS, ICESat-2, LVIS, MEaSUREs, MODIS, Nimbus, SMAP, SnowEx, SSM/I-SSMIS and VIIRS.
Soil Moisture Active Passive Data (SMAP)
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Tools
Data Tools
This page lists featured tools and web services that can be used to access and work with various data from this collection. Additional tools and resources for working with these data may be found in the Help Articles section of this collection.
Get Data
Quickly download a few files using a web browser, or access data through a command-line utility such as WGET.
Search & Discover
Get Data
Filter files before downloading based on date, spatial area, or file name. Choose from various download options, such as Python script. Export bounding boxes as a GeoJSON.
Visualize
Search & Discover
Get Data
Search and order data from all NASA DAACs using spatial and temporal filters in a map interface. Reformatting, reprojecting, and subsetting options are available for some data sets.
Type:
Web Application
Get Data
Customize
Programmatically request selected data products through our API. This tool is valuable for selecting just the parameters you need from big data sets. Apply spatial and temporal filters, subsetting, reformatting, and reprojection.
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
reprojection
spatial subsetting
variable subsetting
Output Projections:
WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid North
WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid Global
WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid South
Geographic
Polar Stereographic
UTM Northern Hemisphere
UTM Southern Hemisphere
Output Formats:
HDF5
ASCII
GEOTIFF
HDF-EOS5
HDF5
KML
NETCDF-3
NETCDF-4
Get Data
Programmatically request selected data products through NSIDC's API. Bulk download using spatial and temporal filters, or incorporate data access commands into code/scripts as needed.
Visualize
Search & Discover
Get Data
Customize
GIS
Browse and display global satellite imagery layers from NASA GIBS. Download raw data, share screenshots, and create animations from the imagery.
Type:
Web Application
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
Output Formats:
GEOTIFF
GIF
JPEG
KML
PNG
Get Data
Customize
Sign up for automatic delivery of new data from active NASA satellite missions. Customize data with reformatting, reprojection, and subsetting if desired.
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
reprojection
spatial subsetting
variable subsetting
Visualize
Analyze
Get Data
Search & Discover
GIS
Customize
Extract point and area samples from geospatial data via spatial, temporal, and/or parameter subsetting. Preview and interact with samples before downloading. The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples tool is only available for select NSIDC data products.
Type:
Web Application
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
reprojection
spatial subsetting
temporal subsetting
variable subsetting
Output Formats:
CSV
GEOTIFF
HDF-EOS2
HDF5
JSON
Analyze
Geolocate and display EASE-Grid and EASE-Grid 2.0 data sets with IDL software.
Supported software languages:
IDL
Visualize
Get Data
Use example Python, MATLAB, IDL, or NCL code to import, read, and/or visualize select NSIDC DAAC data products.
Supported software languages:
MATLAB
Python
IDL
Type:
Downloadable Software
Visualize
Explore contents of HDF4 and HDF5 files, including file structure, metadata, and parameter values.
Type:
Downloadable Software
Output Formats:
ASCII
HDF4
HDF5
Visualize
Calculate past and future satellite overpasses, based on latitude/longitude or map location.
Type:
Web Application
Get Data
Customize
Access selected data products over the internet with NASA's data access protocol. Subset and reformat data through a web browser, command line interface, or custom interface, e.g., C NetCDF- or Java NetCDF-compliant programs.
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
spatial subsetting
variable subsetting
Output Formats:
HDF5
ASCII
HDF5
NETCDF-3
NETCDF-4
Visualize
Analyze
Visualize georeferenced arrays in NetCDF, HDF and GRIB formats. Plot data on global or regional maps, choosing from multiple map projections. Overlay continent outlines or masks.
Type:
Downloadable Software
Output Formats:
ASCII
CSV
GIF
HDF-EOS2
HDF-EOS5
HDF4
HDF5
JPEG
KML
NETCDF-3
NETCDF-4
PNG
TIFF
Analyze
Visualize
GIS
Get Data
Customize
Access, subset, project, interpolate, analyze, and/or combine data products with this Python library. Useful for geospatial analyses run locally or in the cloud.
Supported software languages:
Python
Type:
Downloadable Software
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
spatial subsetting
temporal subsetting
variable subsetting
reprojection
Output Formats:
GEOTIFF
HDF4
HDF5
Visualize
Get Data
Download, bulk download, or visualize SMAP L3 and L4 data, guided by Python-based Jupyter Notebooks. These notebooks include examples of applying recommended quality flags for SMAP data.
Supported software languages:
Python
Output Formats:
HDF5
Visualize
Analyze
Search & Discover
GIS
Customize
Find, download, and process select SMAP L3 and L4 data products using this R package. This tool includes functions to extract gridded products and reformat to a GeoTIFF.
Supported software languages:
R
Type:
Downloadable Software
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
variable subsetting
Output Formats:
GEOTIFF
HDF5
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