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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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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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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Browse Arctic- and Antarctic-wide changes in sea ice. View daily and monthly averages of extent and concentration. View time series graphs of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice.
Output Formats:
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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Explore contents of HDF4 and HDF5 files, including file structure, metadata, and parameter values.
Type: Downloadable Software
Output Formats:
ASCII
HDF4
HDF5
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Search the Online Dehn Ice Charts database by geographic region and/or date range. Order charts meeting your search criteria.
Output Formats:
PNG
TIFF
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Reformat and/or visualize IceBridge data products using readers available in multiple programming languages.
Supported software languages:
Matlab
C
IDL
Python
Perl
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
Output Formats:
ASCII
BINARY
PNG
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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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Use this toolbox to read, process, analyze, and output ICESat-2 ATL03 and ATL08 data in these formats: figures, .las, .csv, .kml.
Supported software languages:
Python
Type: Downloadable Software
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
spatial subsetting
temporal subsetting
variable subsetting
Output Formats:
ASCII
CSV
HDF5
KML
PNG
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Use this GUI to interpret, label, and visualize ICESat-2 ATL03 data.
Type: Downloadable Software
Customization Capabilities:
spatial subsetting
temporal subsetting
Output Formats:
ASCII
CSV
JPEG
PNG
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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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Analyze monthly or daily sea ice concentration and extent. Plot monthly extent anomalies. Display concentration trend images based on date, climatology, and trend range.
Output Formats:
JPEG
PNG
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Compare sea ice extent for any two days or months between 1979 and present.
Output Formats:
PNG
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