Data Tools
Explore web services, interactive tutorials, and other tools to access and work with NSIDC data
There are many ways to access and work with NSIDC data to accommodate a wide diversity of users. Use the filter menu to explore and narrow down your options. Note that the list defaults to show our Featured tools first, however, you have more options in the Sort by menu.
- To see which tools are available for which data sets, you must go to a specific data set landing page. On the landing page under Data Access and Tools, you will see data-set specific tools to access and work with the data.
- Once you are ready to find a data set, explore our data catalog.
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Get Data
Persistent HTTPS File System that is not affected by regular NSIDC maintenance downtimes. Quickly download a few files using a web browser, or access data through a command-line utility such as WGET.
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Get Data
Quickly download a few files using a web browser, or access data through a command-line utility such as WGET.
Get Data
Access and download NOAA@NSIDC data using a web browser, or through a command line utility such as WGET, or using programming languages such as R or Python.
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service
Get Data
Download data via FTP using an FTP client, command line utility or a script, e.g., Python
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service
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
Interpolation Options:
Bicubic Interpolation
Bilinear Interpolation
Nearest Neighbor
Output Projections:
Geographic
Universal Transverse Mercator
Polar Stereographic
Sinusoidal
Plate Carree
Output Formats:
HDF-EOS
GEOTIFF
HDF-EOS
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.
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
Get Data
Sign up for automatic delivery of new data from active NASA satellite missions. Data products are delivered via SCP or HTTPS pull.
Get Data
Access data directly from the NASA Earthdata Cloud via Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3). This access option is only available when working within the us-west-2 region and requires additional AWS S3 credentials.
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Visualize
Get Data
Search & Discover
Customize
Compare decades of harmonized data across pre-IceBridge, IceBridge, ICESat/GLAS, and ICESat-2 data products. Access and visualize data using a download widget, map-based customization, API code examples, and other tools.
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
reprojection
spatial subsetting
temporal subsetting
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
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