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Jun 07, 2024

Suomi NPP VIIRS

The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) GPS recovery was successfully carried out on June 3, 2024. Restoration of the geolocation accuracy has been confirmed and normal production of all SNPP VIIRS Version 1 and Version 2 data products has re…

Jun 06, 2024

Combined MODIS Terra ASTER Terra MODIS

An anomaly with the Terra MODIS Global Positioning System (GPS), which started at approximately 23:00:00 UTC on May 11, 2024, caused a significant degradation in geolocation performance for Terra MODIS data. The behavior was likely due to the strong solar…

Jun 03, 2024

Suomi NPP VIIRS

Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Version 1 (Collection 1) land data products will cease forward processing on June 17, 2024. VIIRS Version 1 data products will remain available for distribution as additional Version 2 data products are re…

May 29, 2024

An anomaly with the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) Global Positioning System (GPS), which started at approximately 22:23:14 UTC on May 25, 2024, is causing significant degradation in geolocation performance for SNPP VIIRS data. The geolo…

May 16, 2024

DAAC2Disk Utility Aqua MODIS Combined MODIS Terra MODIS

Due to the lack of tile related granule metadata fields in all MODIS Version 6.1 datasets, searching by tile for these datasets is not available in the DAAC2Disk download manager. Users still have the ability to search MODIS tiled data products by shortna…

May 14, 2024

The LP DAAC is pleased to announce the addition of years 2022 and 2023 of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Combined ASTER and MODIS Emissivity database over Land (CAMEL) Version 3 (V3) product suite. Th…

May 02, 2024

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 inclusion of data for the South American cont…

Apr 30, 2024

The LP DAAC is pleased to announce the addition of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Version 2 Active Fires products to the Thermal Anomalies/Fire product suite. The VIIRS Version 2 release includes data products from both the Suomi Na…

Apr 23, 2024

The LP DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA) Land Surface Disturbance Annual from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) Version 1 data product. This product summarizes v…

Apr 18, 2024

EMIT

Check out two Python Jupyter notebooks demonstrating how to work with EMIT methane data products (EMITL2BCH4ENH v001 and EMITL2BCH4PLM v001) in the EMIT-Data-Resources Repository and watch the recording of the recent Methane Plume workshop at your leisure.

Apr 18, 2024

AppEEARS NOAA-20 VIIRS Suomi NPP VIIRS

Version 3.53 of the Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) has been released. This release adds the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Version 2 Vegetation Indices product suite from the Suomi National Po…

Apr 12, 2024

NOAA-20 VIIRS

The NOAA-20 satellite successfully underwent a rephasing maneuver between March 20, 2024 - April 4, 2024, as part of an orbit rephasing to provide 180 degrees of separation between NOAA-20 and NOAA-21. This maneuver impacted the Visible Infrared Imaging R…

Apr 12, 2024

AppEEARS ECOSTRESS

The ECOSTRESS Tiled Top of Atmosphere Calibrated Radiance Instantaneous L1C Global 70 m (ECO_L1CT_RAD) Version 2 data product is now available from the Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) with the release of version …

Apr 10, 2024

NASA LP DAAC data products will be removed from USGS’s EarthExplorer and will no longer be distributed from that platform on August 30th, 2024. Users that currently download LP DAAC holdings in EarthExplorer are encouraged to familiarize themselves with N…

Apr 05, 2024

Aqua MODIS

A non-recoverable data loss occurred for Aqua MODIS on March 22 through 25, 2024, due to a power failure at the Svalbard ground station in Norway. Scheduled contacts from the ground station were missed and only partial data have been recovered.

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