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 range 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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Quickly download a few files using a web browser, or access the data through a command-line utility such as WGET.
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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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Download data via FTP using an FTP client, command line utility or a script, e.g., Python
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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.
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Discover, access, and visualize data from NASA's ICESat and ICESat-2 missions.
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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.
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earthaccess is a python library to search and access NASA Earth science data with just a few lines of code.
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Prepare analysis ready data and reduce time-to-science. Achieve seamless access to data across different NASA data centers. Customization options, which vary by data set, can include spatial, temporal, and variable subsetting, as well as regridding and reformatting.
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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.
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Visualize and download data from the GLIMS Glacier Database using a map-based interface.
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Search and download data from the GLIMS Glacier Database, using custom parameters in a text-search form.
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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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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.
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Spatially search for and download land ice velocity data from Landsat 8, using a map interface.
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Search the Glacier Photograph Collection by glacier name, location, date, photographer, and more. View lower-resolution photographs online and order high-resolution versions.
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Search the entire World Glacier Inventory by glacier name, number, or parameters (latitude/longitude, altitude, size, length, features). Specify output parameters and format (text or .csv file).
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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.
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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.
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Process Earth science data on demand via a web service and gain low-latency access to customized data products using parameters supplied at the time of request.
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Type: Downloadable Software
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Display browse images for five different parameters from three different NOAA@NSIDC Arctic sea ice products in a spreadsheet-like format.
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See how Arctic/Antarctic sea ice extent changes throughout the calendar year using a customizable graph in a web browser. Compare extents for all years since 1979, and click on any point in any year's trajectory for a map of daily sea ice concentration.
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Geolocate and display EASE-Grid and EASE-Grid 2.0 data sets with IDL software.
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Search the Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database for freeze/thaw dates and the physical characteristics for several hundred lakes and rivers. You can search using country, latitude/longitude, name, freeze status, and temporal range. Select the desired output format: browser, CSV, or ASCII.
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Download GoLIVE data via FTP using an FTP client or command line utility.
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Use example Python, MATLAB, IDL, or NCL code to import, read, and/or visualize select NSIDC DAAC data products.
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Explore contents of HDF4 and HDF5 files, including file structure, metadata, and parameter values.
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Access ICESat-2 data with as few as three lines of code. This Python software library wraps around APIs supported by the NSIDC DAAC.
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Supported software languages:
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Notebook for streaming cloud-hosted ICESat-2 ATL15 (Gridded Antarctic/Arctic Land Ice Height) to calculate dh/dt trends.
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Demonstrates using the earthaccess python package to search for and directly access cloud-hosted ICESat-2 data from an Amazon Compute Cloud (EC2) instance. This python-based Jupyter notebook uses Land Ice Height (ATL06) granules as an example.
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Utilize the Jupyterbook for the latest Hackweek virtual event and learn about the ICESat-2 satellite, data products, data-access tools, and more. Access past hackwork tutorials from the ICESat-2 Hackweek Github Organization listed in the Quick Links.
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Interpolate BedMachine Antarctica data (NSIDC-0756) onto user-defined polar stereo coordinates with Python and MATLAB scripts. This tool lets you reproject data to geodetic latitude/longitude.
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Search and select Greenland Ice Mapping Project GIMP data at NSIDC, guided by a Python-based Jupyter Notebook. Build a QGIS project file from the search results. View data remotely if desired.
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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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Calculate past and future satellite overpasses, based on latitude/longitude or map location.
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Access GLIMS data using web map services in GIS software.
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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.
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Search the Online Dehn Ice Charts database by geographic region and/or date range. Order charts meeting your search criteria.
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Reformat and/or visualize IceBridge data products using readers available in multiple programming languages.
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Supported software languages:
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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.
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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.
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Supported software languages:
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Use this GUI to interpret, label, and visualize ICESat-2 ATL03 data.
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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.
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Supported software languages:
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Search the SCICEX data inventory. Data that are archived at NSIDC and externally are listed. To access data archived at NSIDC use the FTP File System access option. For externally archived data, the links will direct you to external tools to retrieve the data.
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View animated maps of monthly sea ice extent, concentration, anomalies and trends for the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
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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.
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Search, download, and plot L3 SMAP data, guided by Python-based Jupyter Notebooks.
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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.
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Supported software languages:
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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.
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Query, access, analyze, and download SnowEx data sets using a SQL database.
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