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NASA Data & Resources

Agriculture and Water Management Pathfinder: Drought, vegetation health, and soil moisture all can be tracked remotely. This data pathfinder provides links to NASA Earth observations that help address issues including water management for irrigation, crop-type identification and land use, and drought preparedness.

Floods Data Pathfinder: Floods are some of the most costly natural disasters. NASA provides many datasets and tools that can aid with decisions regarding flood response and mitigation.

Extreme Heat Data Pathfinder: Abnormally hot and/or humid weather lasting a few days to weeks at a time is occurring more frequently in locations around the world. These events can have detrimental impacts on farms. NASA data can aid with forecasting and monitoring extreme heat events.

NASA Acres: NASA Acres Consortium is NASA’s U.S.-focused agriculture and food security program established in March 2023. NASA Acres focuses on applying satellite Earth Observation (EO) information to the most pressing agricultural and food security challenges facing U.S. farmers, ranchers, and agrifood system stakeholders. NASA Acres works with people across the agriculture sector to develop EO-based data and tools that strengthen U.S. agriculture.

NASA Harvest: NASA Harvest is a consortium of multidisciplinary and multisectoral actors from around the world, led and implemented by the Harvest Hub at the University of Maryland. The consortium brings together world-renowned experts working on environmental, economic, and social aspects of agriculture in universities, research centers, industry, space agencies, humanitarian organizations, ministries of agriculture, and more. The consortium’s mission is to enable and advance adoption of satellite Earth observations by public and private organizations to benefit food security, agriculture, and human and environmental resiliency in the U.S. and worldwide.

NASA Harvest Portal: NASA Harvest Portal is the NASA Harvest Consortium's data repository for agricultural geospatial data. This data catalog provides searchable access to datasets, services, metadata, and data descriptions.

AppEEARS: Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples: The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers a simple and efficient way to access and transform geospatial data from a variety of federal data archives. AppEEARS enables users to subset geospatial datasets using spatial, temporal, and band/layer parameters. Visit the AppEEARS Getting Started page to learn more about workflows, viewing results, interacting with results, and downloading requests.

Worldview: The NASA Worldview data visualization application provides the capability to interactively browse more than 1,000 global, full-resolution, satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data.

Giovanni: NASA’s Giovanni is an online application that enables display and analysis of geophysical parameters. There are many options for analysis. For more information on choosing a type of plot, see the Giovanni User Manual.

NASA Earthdata Search: Earthdata Search is NASA's tool for searching for and discovering NASA Earth science data as well as relevant data available through other U.S. and international agencies.

Global Agriculture Monitoring System (GLAM): GLAM is a web-based platform that enables near-real-time monitoring of global croplands, primarily using NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument data.

Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA): VEDA is NASA's open-source Earth Science data analysis platform in the cloud.

U.S. Drought Monitor: The U.S. Drought Monitor is a weekly map of drought conditions used by policymakers to help determine drought relief allocations and declarations of drought. NASA satellites provide data about water availability to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Crop Condition and Soil Moisture Analytics (Crop-CASMA): Provides access to high-resolution data from NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument in an easy-to-use format. Soil moisture data are critical for professionals in the agriculture and natural resources sectors who use soil moisture in tandem with other data to plan crop planting, forecast yields, track droughts or floods, and improve weather forecasts. This application offers a suite of services such as a Web Map Service (WMS), a Web Coverage Service (WCS), and Web Processing Services (WPS).

Earthdata Login: Provides free and immediate access to thousands of NASA Earth data products covering all Earth science disciplines and topic areas for researchers, applied science users, application developers, and the general public. Each participant will need a login to download data. Registration is easy and free of charge, as is data access.

Earthdata Forum: If you have specific questions about how to use data, tools, or resources, please visit the Earthdata Forum. Here, you can interact with other data users and NASA subject matter experts on a variety of Earth science research and applications topics.

NASA's Earth Science Data Systems Backgrounders: Covers topics like sensor characteristics, resolutions, and data processing techniques. A good introduction to Earthdata resources and tools.

Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) Program: ARSET provides online and in-person trainings on how remote sensing can be used in an agricultural context. These trainings range from introductory level to advanced and cover a wide variety of applications using satellite and modeled data.

NASA Earth Observatory: Showcases how NASA data sheds light on diverse Earth phenomena worldwide. Explore these stories and consider:

Scientific Phenomena Affecting Crops: Which scientific phenomena, revealed by Earth observing data, can impact crop growth and yield for farmers?
Web App Applications: How can these data be utilized by farmers within a web app to enhance their agricultural practices?
Exploring Broader Connections: What further questions or phenomena are sparked by these stories?

Findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) and Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics (CARE) Principles

FAIR: NASA is working to ensure Earth science and other data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) by machines and people.
CARE: Learn about the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance (includes Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics)

Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD): Global cropland extent and crop type data products produced by the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) GFSAD30 team.

For additional resources you could conduct an internet search to gather relevant information that may be useful. Potential search keywords could include:

Earthaccess
OpenET
Crop Harvest Dataset Zenodo
FAO/NASA Harvest Public Crop Type Datasets

Space Agency Partner Resources

Canadian Space Agency (CSA)

Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) - Data Portal: The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) is Canada's new generation of Earth observation satellites. The RCM includes a trio of Earth observation satellites, capable of scanning Earth day or night and in any weather conditions. The RCM is designed to provide effective solutions in three main areas: Maritime surveillance (ice, surface wind, oil pollution and ship monitoring); Disaster management (mitigation, warning, response and recovery); and Ecosystem monitoring (agriculture, wetlands, forestry and coastal change monitoring).

RADARSAT 1 - Data Portal: Launched in November 1995, RADARSAT-1 provided Canada and the world with an operational radar satellite system capable of timely delivery of large amounts of data. Equipped with a powerful synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument, it acquired images of the Earth day or night, in all weather and through cloud cover, smoke and haze. All data products in the Canadian RADARSAT-1 archive have been released under an open license

Agriculture in the Satellite Age: This web page provides more information on the roles of satellites and space technologies in the agricultural industry.

National Space Activities Commission of Argentina (CONAE)

Argentinian Space Agency (CONAE) Spectral Signature Library: This library provides water, soil and vegetation signatures– the unique pattern of light reflection and absorption across different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, essentially acting as a "fingerprint" for a material. Requires a free registration.

GEOServicios: Webmap services that provides Argentinian Space Agency (CONAE) geospatial information (Web map service (WMS) and Web feature serviceWFS)) released according to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard, such as crops, soil moisture maps.

SAOCOM Satellite Catalog and Information: From this site you can download a SAOCOM mosaic GeoTiff image of each one of Argentina's provinces and also visualize a time series of soil moisture profile. Includes links to tutorials.

NASA Farm Navigators: Using NASA Data Exploration in Agriculture