Sudden reduction in available GEDI granules across L2A/L2B/L4A/L4C

[simonbesn]

Hi Earthdata team,

I’m noticing something unusual in the GEDI archive over the past few days and wanted to check whether any maintenance or restructuring is underway.

In my workflow, I intersect the granule IDs across GEDI L2A, L2B, L4A, and L4C to ensure each granule has the full set of products before downloading. Until recently, the intersection consistently returned around ~89k granules:
2025-11-20 19:02:30 - INFO - Intersection has 89,579 granule IDs across 4 products. Estimated download: ~204.7 TB

Since yesterday, the same query now returns roughly half that number:
2025-12-01 13:49:38 - INFO - Intersection has 46,913 granule IDs across 4 products. Estimated download: ~107 TB

Many granules that were previously accessible (via CMR search and direct download) no longer appear in CMR results for any of the four products.

Is there any ongoing maintenance, temporary removal, or reindexing of the GEDI collections that might explain this?

Thanks a lot for any clarification!

Cheers,
Simon

[LP DAAC - dgolon]

Hi @simonbesn We are looking into this and will report back when we have more details. Thanks -- Danielle

[rupeshornl]

Hi @simonbesn, Thank you for reaching out. We are currently experiencing an issue with CMR that is affecting Earthdata Search, including the reported number of granules in GEDI collections. We will let you know as soon as the issue is resolved. Thank you!

[LP DAAC - lien]

Hi Simon,
Could you try that search again. The CMR which is where the access tools go to find the metadata was having some issues earlier, but it is worked out now. Please let us know if it still is not working for you.
Thanks,
Brett

[simonbesn]

Hi Brett,

Yes, it is back to normal now.

2025-12-01 21:14:23,731 - INFO - Intersection has 89579 granule IDs across 4 products. Estimated download: 209595.16 GB (204.68 TB).

Thanks for looking into that.

Cheers,
Simon.