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National Aeronautics and Space Administration                             June 2025 EARTHDATA DISCOVERY Open Access for Open Science                     Data From SEDAC Are Available Again in Earthdata Search           Earthdata has restored access to more than 350 SEDAC datasets, all of which are now available through Earthdata Search.               ARSET Trainings Now Available via Earthdata The Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) program has a new home on Earthdata. Access more than two dozen trainings that cover remote sensing applications in wildfire monitoring, animal tracking, air quality assessment, and more.                 Browse the list of available remote sensing trainings on Earthdata. ➞                       Articles                 Monitor Floods Globally and in Near Real-Time With VIIRS The new VIIRS near real-time product will be generated in tandem with similar MODIS-based products, providing users an opportunity to have a second "look" at floods and enabling them to compare the two products.           Visualizing Earth Data on Demand: NASA's TiTiler-CMR Delivers Imagery Without the Wait A new open-source tool from NASA IMPACT enables dynamic, on-demand generation of visual imagery from NASA’s Earth science datasets directly from NASA’s Common Metadata Repository.           Farming and Fires: Satellite Observations Help Kansas Farmers Track and Manage Prescribed Burns A new Data in Action story describes recent prescribed agricultural burns in Wichita, KS and how NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites provided near real-time data about these fires.           Citizen Science and MODIS Data Reveal Patterns of Bird Population Change Learn how Cornell University’s eBird project uses NASA data and observations from amateur birdwatchers to provide insights into the decline in avian populations throughout North America.           VIIRS Day/Night Band Data Augments Aurora Forecast Model Predictions Space weather predictions are challenging. But researchers believe imagery from the Day/Night Band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) can enhance space weather prediction efforts.           Four Websites Migrated into Earthdata in June As of Tuesday, June 17th, the websites for LP DAAC, ORNL DAAC, and CDDIS DAAC have migrated into the Earthdata website.                   Webinars & Events                     PACE Land data Users' Group - Summer 2025 Meeting July 1, 2025           NASA’s PACE observatory, launched just over a year ago, provides novel, freely available hyperspectral and polarimetric data products with exciting potential to serve the terrestrial remote sensing community in new ways. The PACE Land data Users' Group (PLUG) is a forum for interfacing with, growing, and informing the PACE terrestrial data product user community. PLUG meeting content is user-driven, covering the most requested topics from the group.                     Introduction to NASA Earth Observations for Operational Wildfire Monitoring and Management (delivered in Spanish) July 9, 16, and 23, 2025 This three-part training will familiarize participants with the various modules available in NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) and explore the range of data and information available as well as the characteristics of satellite-based active fire detection.               ESIP Summer Meeting July 22 – 25, 2025 The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) summer meeting will be held in Seattle, WA and is four days of exploring current trends, problems, surfacing issues in Earth science data and information.               Introduction to NASA Snow and Ice Data Products and Applications for Water Resources Management July 24, 31, and August 7, 2025 This collaborative training between ARSET, NASA’s National Snow and Ice Data Center, and NASA's Western Water Actions Office introduces NASA’s snow and ice data products and snow water equivalence data, with a particular focus on snow data application to monitoring and forecasting snow-fed river flow and water availability.               Discover and Access the OPERA-DISP Dataset Using ASF DAAC’s Displacement Portal Recorded May 29, 2025 Learn more about the OPERA-DISP product, which provides InSAR-derived surface displacement measurements across most of North America, and the portal that enables its exploration.               NASA CSDA Program Vendor Focus—BlackSky Recorded May 28, 2025 Learn more about the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program vendor BlackSky and the company's capabilities for Earth observation with high-resolution and very-high-resolution electro-optical imagery.                         Learning Resources           Which Data Tool Is Right for You? With so many data tools at your disposal, it can be challenging to determine which one is appropriate for your specific data needs. So we’ve created a chart to remove some of the guesswork, making it easier to find the data you need.           New Worldview Tour Story on OPERA’s Land Surface Disturbance Product Check out a new Worldview Tour Story that shows you how high resolution land surface and vegetation disturbance imagery can help with vegetation disturbance assessments.           NASA Open Science 101 NASA’s Open Science 101 is a self-paced online curriculum designed to equip learners with the foundational knowledge and practical skills needed to engage in collaborative and transparent research. Key skills taught in this course include data management, open publishing, and research workflow optimization. Complete all five modules and earn a NASA Open Science digital badge that can be shared with your community.                     Data Alerts and Outages           New NASA Earth Science Data Read summaries of the latest data products, services, and tools released during the past month in NASA’s ever-expanding open-access data archive.           Commercial Products (WorldView and GeoEye) in Earthdata Search Through collaboration with NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program, eight commercial products were recently added to the Satellite Needs Working Group Earthdata Search portal to enhance discovery and access of commercial data.           OPERA Project Releases Level 3 Displacement Products The OPERA Level 3 displacement products provide detailed information on land surface changes and include the first open-access InSAR time-series displacement products available over North America.           LP DAAC to Discontinue Data Pool Distribution for MODIS Datasets Access to all Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) related datasets via the LP DAAC Data Pool will be retired on June 30, 2025.           VIIRS Version 2 BRDF/Albedo Model Parameter Data Products Released Version 2 of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF)/Albedo model parameter product suite includes a total of 178 products.           ECOSTRESS Version 1 ECO1BRAD, ECO2CLD, and ECO2LSTE Data Products To Be Decommissioned These ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) data products are no longer available through Earthdata Search as of May 30, 2025                   Worldview Images of the Week           Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang, China The movement of dust across the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang region of China was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua platform.           Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Multiple instruments aboard NASA’s Aqua and Terra platforms were used to map global sea surface temperature anomalies.           High Aerosol Index from Canadian Wildfires The high aerosol index values resulting from large wildfires in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta are visible in a true-color corrected reflectance image overlaid with aerosol index.           Chlorophyll a Concentrations in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA An image captured by the VIIRS instrument aboard the Suomi NPP platform shows starkly different chlorophyll a concentrations within the Great Salt Lake.           Vegetation Loss Due to South Korea's March Wildfires An OPERA Land Surface Disturbance layer reveals vegetation disturbance and cover loss resulting from wildfires that ravaged South Korea back in March.                 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.                 Contact Us   NASA | 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771 Sent by andi.thomas@nasa.gov

June 23, 2025 Natural Events

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New Mexico Battles Wildfires With extreme drought gripping the state, firefighters are battling large blazes north of Silver City. (Jun 18, 2025)       Water Pours Into Australia's Lake Eyre Floodwaters that have coursed through the outback for months are now replenishing a vast inland sea on a scale not seen in decades. (Jun 18, 2025)

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