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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 platform battery status, the Terra Flight Operati...

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 be unavailable from 5:00 pm on Thursday, Marc...

The LP DAAC is pleased to announce the release of the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Vegetation Indices (HLS-VI) data products. Thes new HLS-derived datasets provide vegetation data from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) aboard the joint NASA/USGS Landsat 8 and 9 satellites and the Multi-Spectral...

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 ECOSTRESS Version 2 datasets is listed in the ECO...

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 GLanCE is to provide 30 meter (m) global land...

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 ECOSTRESS Swath Geolocation version 2 data (EC...

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-Adjusted Reflectance (NBAR) in a global Climate M...

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

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 (isotropic, volumetric, and geometric), quality, white-sky albedos (WSA), black-sky albedos (BSA), an...

The LP DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Geostationary Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Hourly North and South America (GEOLST4KHR) version 2 swath data for years 2017 through 2023. With the addit...