Land Processes DAAC (LP DAAC)

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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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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.

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