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DAACs
NASA's 12 Distributed Active Archive Centers — each curates a slice of Earth science. Bar length shows how many atlas datasets each holds.
FY2025 aggregate: 178.7 PB total · 116.2 PB in cloud · 600 TB/day · 10M users · 18755 collections.
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Archive size
02 Directory
All centers
ASF DAAC·Fairbanks, AK
Alaska Satellite Facility DAAC
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) — ice, glaciers, wetlands, soil moisture, deformation
ASDC·Hampton, VA
Atmospheric Science Data Center
Radiation budget · clouds · aerosols · tropospheric chemistry
CDDIS·Greenbelt, MD
Crustal Dynamics Data Information System
Space geodesy — GNSS, SLR, VLBI, DORIS; plate tectonics, Earth rotation
GHRC DAAC·Huntsville, AL
Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center DAAC
Hazardous weather — lightning, hurricanes, atmospheric convection
GES DISC·Greenbelt, MD
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center
Atmospheric composition · dynamics · precipitation · solar irradiance
LP DAAC·Sioux Falls, SD
Land Processes DAAC
Land surface processes — vegetation, soil, fire, snow, urbanization
LAADS DAAC·Greenbelt, MD
Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive & Distribution System DAAC
MODIS + VIIRS Level-1, Level-2, Level-3 atmosphere/land products
NSIDC DAAC·Boulder, CO
National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC
Snow · ice · cryosphere
OB.DAAC·Greenbelt, MD
Ocean Biology DAAC
Ocean color · phytoplankton · biogeochemistry · coastal waters
ORNL DAAC·Oak Ridge, TN
Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC
Terrestrial biogeochemistry · carbon cycle · ecology
PO.DAAC·Pasadena, CA
Physical Oceanography DAAC
Ocean circulation · SST · topography · winds · salinity · cryosphere · hydrology
SEDAC·—
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
Socioeconomic data — population · urban · environmental health · climate vulnerability