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Feb 24, 2015

Terra MODIS

February 24, 2015 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the first data imaged from the Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument. The MODIS sensor was launched aboard Terra on December 18, 1999, and on February 24, 2000, the “fir…

Feb 11, 2015

Terra MODIS

The LP DAAC released the MODIS V051 Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) product on February 11, 2015. Identified by the short name MOD44B, the Terra MODIS VCF product is a sub-pixel-level representation of surface vegetation cover estimates globally. The n…

Feb 04, 2015

MEaSUREs SRTM

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), led by NASA in collaboration with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and German and Italian space agencies, took place in February 2000. The mission lasted for 11 days, orbited the earth 176 tim…

Jan 27, 2015

OPeNDAP

The LP DAAC has deployed a new Web service to access OPeNDAP (Open-Source Project for a Network Access Protocol) data . The use of OPeNDAP data will allow users to gather data as a subset rather than trying to extract the required data from the tile based…

Jan 22, 2015

Data Pool ASTER GED

Author's Note 4/30/2020: Reverb has since been retired. Users are encouraged to use NASA Earthdata Search in place of Reverb.

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Jan 14, 2015

Data Pool NASA Earthdata Search USGS EarthExplorer OPeNDAP Aqua MODIS Combined MODIS Terra MODIS

The LP DAAC is aware of an issue affecting MODIS data availability. Users downloading orders from Reverb, EarthData, or EarthExplorer; or users accesing data via the Data Pool may encounter a Checksum error. Users accessing data via LP DAAC services, such…

Jan 02, 2015

Data Pool MEaSUREs SRTM

(Author's Note 5/18/2020: Reverb and GDEx have since been retired. Users are encouraged to use NASA Earthdata Search in place of Reverb. Several of these datasets are also available in AppEEARS. To see the currently available tools to access the data…

Dec 10, 2014

Attending the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California? Come to one (or all!) of these sessions or presentations showcasing LP DAAC data products and services:

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

8:00 AM - 12:20 PM;Moscone South, Poster HallPoster Session:…

Nov 20, 2014

Data Pool MEaSUREs SRTM

(Author's Note 5/18/2020: Reverb and GDEx have since been retired. Users are encouraged to use NASA Earthdata Search in place of Reverb. Several of these datasets are also available in AppEEARS. To see the currently available tools to access the data…

Nov 13, 2014

On Thursday November 13th, 2014, from 12 pm to 12 am Central, LP DAAC will be performing planned maintenance activities and EROS will be implementing necessary electrical maintenance. During this time access to our websites and project functions/services …

Nov 07, 2014

Aqua MODIS Combined MODIS Terra MODIS

Data products from the Land Processes (LP) DAAC are used in many different applications to serve as modelling tools, to illustrate and detect changes in landscape, and to assess variables of ecosystems, among others. Examples of these data applications ca…

Nov 06, 2014

Combined MODIS

The MCD12Q1 V051 land cover product has been reprocessed and replaced with a revised version of the product. The reprocessed data corrects the known issue of classification errors for the broadleaf and cereal crop classes in the LAI/fPAR Type3, the NPP Ty…

Oct 09, 2014

Data Pool MEaSUREs SRTM

(Author's Note 5/18/2020: Reverb and GDEx have since been retired. Users are encouraged to use NASA Earthdata Search in place of Reverb. Several of these datasets are also available in AppEEARS. To see the currently available tools to access the data…

Sep 09, 2014

Combined MODIS

(Author's Note 5/18/2020: GDEx has since been retired. Users are encouraged to use NASA Earthdata Search in place of Reverb. Several of these datasets are also available in AppEEARS. To see the currently available tools to access the data please visi…

Jul 10, 2014

DAAC2Disk Utility

On Wednesday, July 9th the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) released the LP DAAC2Disk download manager. This will allow users to simplify the search and HTTP download process of the LP DAAC's data pool holdings. User will ha…