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The 50 high-leverage NASA Earth-observation datasets we cover in depth — each with a plain-English name, access snippets, and gotchas. For the full 3,000-dataset NASA catalog, see Full catalog. Filter by theme, archive, or format.
d001·HLSL30
Sharp land snapshots (Landsat)
Harmonized Landsat 30m
30 m · 16-day (combined with HLSS30 → ≤3 day revisit)
d002·HLSS30
Sharp land snapshots (Sentinel-2)
Harmonized Sentinel-2 30m
30 m (resampled from 10/20/60 m Sentinel-2 native) · 5-day (combined with HLSL30 → ≤3 day)
d003·MOD13Q1
How green the land is
MODIS Terra Vegetation Indices 16-Day 250m
250 m · 16-day composite
d004·MOD11A1
How hot the ground gets each day
MODIS Terra Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Daily 1km
1 km · daily
d005·MCD12Q1
What covers the land (forest, city, crops)
MODIS Combined Land Cover Yearly 500m
500 m · yearly
d006·MCD64A1
Where land has burned
MODIS Combined Burned Area Monthly 500m
500 m · monthly
d007·EMITL2BCH4ENH
Methane plumes from above
EMIT L2B Methane Enhancement Data
60 m · opportunistic (ISS overpasses, ~16-day revisit)
d008·EMITL2ARFL
What minerals the surface is made of
EMIT L2A Surface Reflectance
60 m · opportunistic
d009·ECO2LSTE
Plant heat stress & water use
ECOSTRESS L2 Land Surface Temperature & Emissivity
70 m · 3-5 day revisit (variable ISS orbit)
d010·GEDI02_A
How tall the forest is
GEDI L2A Canopy Elevation + Relative Height Metrics
25 m footprint · opportunistic
d011·GEDI_L4A
How much carbon a patch of forest holds
GEDI L4A Above-Ground Biomass Density per Footprint
25 m footprint · opportunistic
d012·GEDI_L4B
Forest carbon, mapped
GEDI L4B Gridded Aboveground Biomass Density 1km
1 km · cumulative (snapshot over the primary mission window)
d013·Daymet_V4
Daily weather across North America
Daymet Daily Surface Weather 1km North America
1 km · daily
d014·ABoVE
A changing Arctic & boreal north
ABoVE Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Products
varies (30 m – 1 km depending on product) · varies
d015·CMS
Where carbon is stored and released
NASA Carbon Monitoring System Products
varies (typically 100m–1km) · varies
d016·GPM_3IMERGDF
How much it rained today (worldwide)
GPM IMERG Final Run Daily 0.1°
0.1° · daily
d017·GPM_3IMERGHH
Rain, every half hour (worldwide)
GPM IMERG Final Run Half-Hourly 0.1°
0.1° · 30 minutes
d018·MERRA-2
A weather & climate record back to 1980
MERRA-2 Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications
0.5° × 0.625° · hourly (instantaneous + time-averaged collections)
d019·AIRS3STD
Temperature & moisture through the atmosphere
AIRS L3 Standard Atmospheric Profiles Daily 1°
1° × 1° · daily (ascending + descending)
d020·OCO2_L2_Lite_FP
Carbon dioxide in the air
OCO-2 L2 Lite Full-Physics XCO2
~3 km footprint · ~16-day repeat
d021·OCO3_L2_Lite_FP
CO2 over cities & power plants
OCO-3 Snapshot Area Map XCO2
~3 km footprint, ~80×80 km SAM scenes · variable (scheduler-driven)
d022·OMI_L2_NO2
Air pollution (NO2) from traffic & industry
OMI L2 Tropospheric NO2 Column
13 × 24 km nadir · daily (sun-sync, 1:38 PM)
d023·ML2O3
The ozone layer, high up
MLS L2 Stratospheric Ozone
along-orbit ~165 km × ~3 km cross-track (limb-emission geometry) · ~3500 profiles/day
d024·TROPICS_L2
Inside hurricanes & tropical storms
TROPICS L2 Tropical Cyclone Microwave Products
~30 km nadir · ~60-min revisit at the tropics
d025·S5P_L2_CH4
Methane across the whole planet
Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Methane (mirrored at GES DISC)
5.5 × 7 km · daily
d026·SENTINEL-1_INTERFEROMETRIC_WIDE_GRDH_HIGHRES
Radar that sees through clouds & dark
Sentinel-1 GRD (Ground Range Detected)
10 m (high-res GRD) · 12-day (single satellite) / 6-day (when constellation)
d027·OPERA_L2_RTC-S1
Cloud-proof radar, ready to use
OPERA Radiometric Terrain-Corrected Sentinel-1 Backscatter
30 m · 12-day (single) / 6-day (constellation)
d028·NISAR_L1_RSLC
Ultra-precise radar of the moving Earth
NISAR L1B Range-Doppler Single-Look Complex
~7 m (L-band) · 12-day
d029·NISAR_L3_GUNW
How the ground shifts (radar maps)
NISAR L3 Geocoded Unwrapped Interferograms
~30 m · 12-day pairs
d030·ATL06
How thick the ice sheets are
ICESat-2 ATL06 Land Ice Elevation
40 m segments along-track · 91-day repeat
d031·ATL08
Ground & tree heights, laser-measured
ICESat-2 ATL08 Land + Canopy Heights
100 m segments along-track · 91-day repeat
d032·ATL13
Heights of lakes & rivers
ICESat-2 ATL13 Inland Water Surface Heights
variable (segment-based by water body) · 91-day repeat
d033·SPL3SMP_E
How wet the soil is
SMAP L3 Enhanced Soil Moisture 9km
9 km (Backus-Gilbert downscaled) · daily
d034·SPL4SMAU
Soil moisture, root-zone & modeled
SMAP L4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture (Model-Assimilated)
9 km · 3-hourly + daily averages
d035·TEMPO_NO2_L2
Hourly air pollution over North America
TEMPO L2 Tropospheric NO2
2 × 4.5 km nadir · hourly daytime
d036·TEMPO_NO2_L3
Daily pollution maps over North America
TEMPO L3 Tropospheric NO2 Gridded Daily
0.02° gridded (~2 km) · daily aggregates of hourly observations
d037·PREFIRE_L2
Heat escaping from the poles
PREFIRE L2 Polar Far-IR Retrievals
~10 km point-FOV (not imaging) · multiple polar overpasses daily
d038·CERES_EBAF
Earth's energy in vs. out
CERES EBAF Energy Balanced and Filled Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation
1° × 1° · monthly
d039·PACE_OCI_L2_OC
Tiny ocean plants (chlorophyll)
PACE OCI L2 Ocean Color Chlorophyll
1 km nadir · 2-day near-global revisit
d040·PACE_OCI_L3M_CHL
Ocean life, mapped & blended
PACE OCI L3 Standard Mapped Image (gridded composites)
4 km gridded · daily / 8-day / monthly composites
d041·MODISA_L3M_CHL
Two decades of ocean-plant color
MODIS Aqua Chlorophyll-a L3 Mapped
4 km · daily / 8-day / monthly composites
d042·PACE_HARP2_L2
Clouds & haze from many angles
PACE HARP2 Polarimetric L2 Cloud/Aerosol Properties
~3 km · ~2-day revisit
d043·SWOT_L2_HR_RiverSP
How high & wide rivers run
SWOT L2 HR River Single Pass
vector reaches (typically 10-km river segments) · 21-day repeat
d044·SWOT_L2_LR_SSH
Bumps & dips in the sea surface
SWOT L2 Low-Rate Sea Surface Height Anomaly
~15-50 km mesoscale · 21-day repeat
d045·GRACEFO_L3_JPL_RL06.X_M
Where Earth's water is moving
GRACE-FO L3 Mascons (JPL RL06.x M)
3° × 3° equivalent (effective ~300 km) · monthly + 10-daily
d046·ECCO_L4
The ocean's full state, reconstructed
ECCO Ocean State Reanalysis V4
~13 km (LLC270 grid) · daily/monthly
d047·MOD06_L2
What the clouds are made of
MODIS Terra Cloud Properties L2 Daily 5km
1 km / 5 km (different bands) · daily
d048·LIS
A computed picture of land water
NASA Land Information System (LIS) Hydrology Outputs
variable (typically 0.01-0.25°) · 3-hourly to monthly
d049·SDO_AIA
The Sun in ultraviolet light
SDO AIA Full-Disk EUV/UV Imagery
0.6 arcsec/pixel (~430 km on the sun) · 12 seconds
d050·FIRMS
Where fires are burning right now
FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System)
1 km (MODIS) / 375 m (VIIRS) · 3-hourly NRT