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Land Processes DAAC (LP DAAC)

ASTER image of San Diego, California

ASTER image of San Diego, CA

NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) is located at the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, SD. LP DAAC was established in 1990 to process NASA land processes data products and provide vital contributions to inter-disciplinary studies of the integrated Earth system.

LP DAAC specializes in:

Processing, archiving, and distributing Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) from Terra;

Archiving and distributing Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) from Terra and Aqua;

Archiving and distributing NASA Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) data from the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite;

Archiving and distributing ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) data from the International Space Station.

Archiving and distributing Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) data from the International Space Station.

Distributing NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Collaborations:

Global Forest Cover Change (GFCC)

Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD)

Global Web-Enabled Landsat Data (GWELD)

Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LSTE)

NASA Digital Elevation Model (DEM) (NASADEM)

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)

Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF)

Vegetation Index and Phenology (VIP)

Distributing approved data products created by researchers, collectively known as Community:

Airborne Hyperspectral Reflectance Mosaic

ASTER Global Emissivity Database (GED)

Global Hyperspectral Imaging Spectral-library of Agricultural crops (GHISA)

Headwall Hyperspectral Reflectance Mosaic

Providing tools and services for discovery and analysis of NASA's land cover and land use data.

Contact Information

Chris Torbert, DAAC Manager (Acting)
Tom Maiersperger, DAAC Scientist
Darla Werner, TSSC Task Manager
Rob Quenzer, LP DAAC Scientific Development and Operations Manager

US Geological Survey
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
47914 252nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001

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Visit the DAAC: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov

Subscribe to the LP DAAC listserv: https://lists.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/lpdaac

Learn more about other DAACs

Land Data

LP DAAC ingests, processes, archives, and distributes NASA data products related to land processes collected by several Earth Observing System (EOS) sensors, including ASTER, MODIS, and VIIRS; two Earth Venture Class sensors, including ECOSTRESS, and GEDI; and mission-derivate products created by select principal investigators. The LP DAAC provides data crucial to the investigation, characterization, and monitoring of biological, geological, hydrological, ecological, and related conditions and processes. In doing so, it promotes the interdisciplinary study and understanding of Earth’s integrated systems.

Several tools and services are available for searching, downloading, and ordering data from LP DAAC. Users may obtain all data products distributed by LP DAAC by using NASA’s Earthdata Search. A selection of products from LP DAAC are available through USGS EarthExplorer. Point and area sampling can be completed for a variety of data products from LP DAAC and other geospatial data products from other federal archives with the Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS). Users may also acquire data via HTTP by directly accessing LP DAAC’s Data Pool or by using the DAAC2Disk Download Manager.

Access the Earthdata Forum for questions and answers on NASA data products related to land processes.

DAAC fact sheet:

LP DAAC one pager

ASTER GDEM fact sheet:

ASTER GDEM one pager

Links

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    Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)

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    Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) and Albedo

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    Canopy Characteristics

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    Canopy Height

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    Canopy Profile

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    Cropland

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    Elevation

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    Emissivity

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    Evapotranspiration and Evaporative Stress Index (ESI)

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    Land Cover

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    LIDAR

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    Land Surface Temperature (LST)

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    Quality

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    Surface Reflectance and Radiance

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    Thermal Anomalies, Fires, and Burned Areas

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    Vegetation (VCF, LAI, VI, GPP, NPP, FPAR)

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    Water

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    Waveform

  • LPDAAC data in action icon
    Read all about it: Examples of using remote sensing in land-related science applications:

  • LP DAAC elearning icon
    Stay up to date with the latest e-learning materials from LP DAAC

  • YouTube logo
    Video tip: Navigating the New LP DAAC Website: Searching for Data

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    Video tip: An Introduction to Suomi-NPP NASA VIIRS Data Products

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    Video tip: An introduction to MODIS Version 6 data

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    Webinar: Navigating NASA's LP DAAC to Find Answers to your Deepest Land Data Questions

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    Webinar: Using NASA’s AppEEARS to Slice and Dice Big Earth Data

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    Webinar: View from NASA Terra's Zoom Lens: All About ASTER

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    Data Animation: Terra MODIS Global Land Surface Temperature

Page Last Updated: Mar 4, 2021 at 6:23 PM EST

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