Challenge Introduction Video
NASA Satellite Data Sources
- NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS)
GIBS provides access to over 400 satellite products.
- NASA Worldview
Worldview is an easy way to visualize GIBS data in your browser.
- NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
SEDAC provides data that focus on human interactions in the environment, integrating socioeconomic and Earth science data.
- NASA's Earth Science Data Systems Program
This describes the many sources of Earth science data
- NASA Earthdata Search
Earthdata allows you to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth observation data.
- Species Distribution Modeling Data
The Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting Data Pathfinder is divided into four parts. See here for details.
On-the-Ground Data Sources
- GLOBE Observer App
The app is downloadable on various mobile devices and platforms. It is not necessary to download the app to complete this challenge, but collecting some data yourself may be helpful.
- GLOBE Visualization System
This system displays GLOBE data on a map and allows you to look at detailed information about individual data points. It also allows downloading of data tables of an entire layer or a selected subset of a layer. Photos that are associated with individual data points in the GLOBE data are currently accessible only through this visualization system.
- GLOBE Advanced Data Access Tool
This allows you to find and retrieve GLOBE data using several different search parameters. You will be presented a summary of sites that have data available based on your search parameters. From those sites, you can further refine your search and download the data into a CSV file for detailed analysis. A summary CSV file is also available that summarizes the amount of data available for each site.
Tutorials for Retrieving and Visualizing Your Data
JAXA Resources Excerpted from http://earth.jaxa.jp/en/
- JASMES Portal
Vegetation, snow and sea ice cover, dryness of vegetation (water stress trend), soil moisture, wildfire, land and sea surface temperature, etc.
- JAXA Himawari Monitor (P-Tree)
Sea surface temperature, chlorophyll-a concentration, wild fire, etc.
- JICA-JAXA Forest Early Warning System in the Tropics (JJ-FAST)
Web-based system using ALOS-2 to monitor tropical forests on a near real-time basis.
- G-Portal
JAXA satellite database related to land, sea, atmosphere, snow and sea ice, water cycle and climate fields.
CSA Resources
- Earth Observation Data Management System
This system allows access to aerial photography, satellite products and value added thematic datasets
- RADARSAT Constellation Mission
Some radar sample images products selected by the Canadian Space Agency can be used to assess biodiversity, map forest and even global changes in vegetation.
- Canadian Space Agency Open Data Portal
The Canadian Space Agency makes scientific data available to researchers, students, industry and the public. Come explore!
ESA Resources
- Euro Data Cube
Euro Data Cube is providing seamless access to global archives of Sentinel, Landsat and MODIS datasets, easy to analyze, integrate or run machine learning workflows on.
