On Wednesday, January 22 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (US Mountain Time), the following data collections may not be available due to a 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. Users of the SMAP near real-time products should use the NASA LANCE HTTPS File System for data access.
SMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS
Passive microwave data from 1978 to present
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Type: Web Application
Get Data
Search & Discover
earthaccess is a python library to search and access NASA Earth science data with just a few lines of code.
Supported software languages:
Python
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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.
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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.
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Type: Web Application
Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
Output Formats:
GEOTIFF
GIF
JPEG
KML
PNG
Get Data
Sign up for automatic delivery of new data from active NASA satellite missions. Data products are delivered via SCP or HTTPS pull.
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Visualize
GIS
Customize
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.
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Customization Capabilities:
data reformatting
reprojection
spatial subsetting
temporal subsetting
variable subsetting
Output Formats:
PNG
GEOTIFF
GIF
HDF-EOS
JPEG
KML
NETCDF-4
PNG
Analyze
Geolocate and display EASE-Grid and EASE-Grid 2.0 data sets with IDL software.
Supported software languages:
IDL
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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.
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Type: Downloadable Software
Output Formats:
ASCII
HDF4
HDF5
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.
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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
Visualize
Visualize changes in Arctic air temperatures, frozen ground, sea ice concentration and age, snow cover duration, vegetation greenness, and water vapor. Animate maps and time series graphs.
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