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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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
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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
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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
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Spatially search for and download land ice velocity data from Landsat 8, using a map interface.
Output Formats:
GEOTIFF
NETCDF-4
PNG
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View and download the most recent daily observations of sea ice extent and ice edge boundary for the entire Arctic and/or a specific region. Compare time series of sea ice extent from the most recent four weeks to the same four-week period in the previous four years.
Output Formats:
CSV
GEOTIFF
NETCDF-4
PNG
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Access georegistered images for data layers from select NSIDC data products. Use OGC protocols (WMS, WFS, and WCS) through HTTP URLs or OGC-compatible clients (ArcMap, QGIS, Google Earth) to access the data.
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
reprojection
spatial subsetting
temporal subsetting
variable subsetting
Output Formats:
PNG
GEOTIFF
GIF
HDF-EOS
JPEG
KML
NETCDF-4
PNG
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Use Python scripts to read and visualize daily and monthly snow depth and snow water equivalent ASCII files from the Canadian Meteorological Center Daily Snow Depth Analysis Data (NSIDC-0477) product. Convert a one-year snow depth ASCII file to GeoTIFF.
Supported software languages:
Python
Type: Downloadable Software
Last updated:
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
Output Formats:
GEOTIFF
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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
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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
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Search for and download NSIDC DAAC data using the earthaccess python package. This python-based Jupyter notebook also demonstrates geospatial operations to crop and resample one GeoTIFF based on the extent and pixel size of another GeoTIFF, with the end goal of plotting one on top of the other. Two data sets from the NASA MEaSUREs program are used as examples.
Supported software languages:
Python
Customization Capabilities:
spatial subsetting
resampling
Output Formats:
GEOTIFF
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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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A Python-based Jupyter Notebook demonstrating how to access and visualize coincident snow data from the NSIDC DAAC across in-situ, airborne, and satellite platforms from NASA's SnowEx, ASO, and MODIS data sets, respectively.
Supported software languages:
Python
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
reprojection
spatial subsetting
Output Formats:
CSV
GEOTIFF
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