NASA Earthdata Discovery: News for September 2022

EARTHDATA DISCOVERY OPEN ACCESS FOR OPEN SCIENCE | SEPTEMBER 2022

Agricultural fields line the western range of the Taurus Mountains in Turkey. Image credit: NASA's Earth Observatory using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.1           Agriculture and Water Resources Data Pathfinder Autumn means harvest season. The Agriculture and Water Resources Data Pathfinder guides you to NASA data related to water management, crop-type identification, drought preparedness, and more.             More than 100 Years of Crop Statistics: 1900-2017 See how the world's major breadbaskets have evolved over time in a new NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) dataset.         Are you new to using NASA Earth science data or exploring new areas of research? Need new tools to analyze and work with data? Start with NASA Earthdata. Get Started           Resource Spotlight Sea Level Change Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. Learn about the many ways NASA tracks global sea level rise.                     Articles

Where in the World is Dr. Sharyl Byram? Geodetic data enable the precise determination of the position and motion of Earth, the maintenance of the U.S. Master Clock, and much more. Read how Dr. Byram uses NASA geodetic data in a new Data User Profile.           PO.DAAC Coding Club Helps Scientists Transition to the Cloud Join the club—the coding club at NASA's Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC) is taking the mystery out of cloud computing and showing scientists how easy cloud-based research can be.           Machine Learning Best Practices Take Center Stage An IMPACT workshop at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2022 demonstrated best practices for training machine learning models and for using cloud technologies with the trained models.           What Does Open Science Mean to You? The Transform to Open Science (TOPS) team asked and scientists responded. Read inspiring stories from open science practitioners and learn what open science means to them along with their best practices.                   Blogs     This past summer, IMPACT interns:     Researched ways to make machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) data more reliable by reducing bias. Used ML to find an automated way to analyze and identify hail scars in satellite imagery. All hail machine learning! Created the Random Reviewer Bot, allowing NASA Slack users to request a certain number of random reviewers to review projects. Made it easier to label datasets for use in machine learning training by developing a new Python package for the ImageLabeler tool.                 Webinars

Coming Soon: Explore GNSS Products at NASA's Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS) September 28, 2022 Join us to learn about the Extended Solid Earth Science ESDR System (ESESES) project, whose Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-derived data products enable research on tectonic motion, crustal deformation, earthquakes, tsunamis, sea level rise, extreme weather, and more! Register for Webinar                         Watch it Again: Updated Website for Finding NASA Cryospheric Data Searching for NASA snow and ice data just got easier thanks to an updated website at NASA's National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC DAAC). Join DAAC experts for a tour of the new website. View Event Recording                   Applications & Datasets                 Tropical Storms GIS Web App Ready to track tropical storms? A new geographic information system (GIS) Tropical Storms Web App makes it easy to track storms globally and overlay more than a half-dozen data layers. Check it out!           Water Security Monthly Grids, 1948-2014 This new SEDAC dataset provides key data about surpluses and deficits of freshwater, including anomalies and return periods for key parameters such as precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and flow-accumulated runoff.     U.S. to Provide Greater Access to Federally Funded Research The updated federal policy requires the results of taxpayer-funded research to be made publicly available at no cost. Read how this new policy is in line with what NASA’s ESDS has done since its inception.           Explore more new datasets                   Worldview Images of the Week           Oil Storage Facility Fire in Cuba A lightning strike sparked a conflagration at a Cuban oil storage facility on August 5. By August 8, numerous tanks were burning, with black smoke reaching Havana, Cuba almost 50 miles west.           Extensive Flooding in Pakistan Pakistan has endured eight consecutive weeks of rainfall, and a third of the country is estimated to be flooded. Two NASA Worldview images provide satellite views of this natural disaster.           View more Images of the Week           1Top image credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) data acquired on June 8, 2020 from the U.S. Geological Survey.               NASA's Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) program oversees the life cycle of NASA’s Earth science data and seeks to maximize the scientific return from missions and experiments.