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Apr 10, 2025

AppEEARS NASA Earthdata Search Suomi NPP VIIRS

On April 8, 2025, the LP DAAC ceased distribution of VIIRS Version 1 Surface Reflectance (SR), Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR), Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Active Fires Products. These products are n…

Apr 01, 2025

The LP DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Version 2 Level 1B Geolocated Waveform Data, Level 2A Elevation and Height Metrics Data, and Level 2B Canopy Cover and Vertical Profile Metrics Data …

Mar 31, 2025

Data Pool OPeNDAP ASTER DAR Tool

The USGS EROS Center, where the LP DAAC is located, will be having an Extended Preventative Maintenance (PM) period on Monday, April 7 through Wednesday, April 9, 2025. As we prepare for this PM, access to on-premises LP DAAC data, tools, and services wil…

Mar 28, 2025

AppEEARS NOAA-20 VIIRS Suomi NPP VIIRS

Version 3.76 of the Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) has been released. This release adds the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) Albedo product…

Mar 21, 2025

NASA Earthdata Search NOAA-20 VIIRS Suomi NPP VIIRS

The LP DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Version 2 FIre Light Detection Algorithm (FILDA) Modified Combustion Efficiency (MCE) product suite. The VIIRS Version 2 release includes annual d…

Mar 17, 2025

In response to requirements outlined in the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA), NASA launched the Web Modernization Project to consolidate the agency's multitude of websites into nasa.gov or science.nasa.gov. NASA’s Earth Science D…

Mar 13, 2025

The LP DAAC will cease distribution of VIIRS Version 1 Land Surface Reflectance (LSR), Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR), Land Surface Temperature and Active Fires Products on April 8, 2025. These products wi…

Mar 05, 2025

On November 28, 2024, at 14:20 UTC, one of Terra's power-transmitting shunt units failed. As a result, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument was put into Safe Mode. After investigation and monitoring of…

Feb 26, 2025

The USGS EROS Center, where the LP DAAC is located, will be having an extended Preventative Maintenance (PM) period on Friday, March 7 through Saturday March 8, 2025. As we prepare for this PM, access to on-premises LP DAAC data, tools, and services will …

Feb 18, 2025

NASA Earthdata Search HLS

The LP DAAC is pleased to announce the release of the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Vegetation Indices (HLS-VI) data products. These new HLS-derived datasets provide vegetation data from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) aboard the joint NASA/USGS Lan…

Feb 14, 2025

The ECOSTRESS Resampled Radiance Version 1 (ECO1BMAPRAD) data product will no longer be available through the LP DAAC Data Pool, Earthdata Search, and AppEEARS as of February 14, 2025. ECO1BMAPRAD users are encouraged to transition to the ECOSTRESS Tiled …

Feb 06, 2025

ECOSTRESS Level 1 and 2 forward processing of Version 1 has ended as of January 6, 2025. Version 1 collections will be decommissioned at the end of May 2025. It is strongly encouraged that users transition to ECOSTRESS Version 2. The complete list of ECOS…

Feb 06, 2025

NASA Earthdata Search MEaSUREs GLanCE

The LP DAAC is pleased to announce the expansion of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Land Cover Mapping and Estimation (GLanCE) data product with the addition of data for Oceania.

The purpose of G…

Feb 05, 2025

ECOSTRESS

The LP DAAC has released a new Python-based command-line script to extract the Geolocation Accuracy QA flag from ECOSTRESS version 2 data. The Geolocation Accuracy QA flag provides an indication of geolocation error. This flag is only available from the E…

Jan 31, 2025

NASA Earthdata Search NOAA-20 VIIRS Suomi NPP VIIRS

The LP DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Version 2 Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF)/ Albedo model parameters, snow-free model parameters, albedo, and Nadir BRDF-Adju…