EOSDIS DAAC Summary Table

Name Location Data Management Expertise Atmospheric NASA Langley o Spaceborne data: CERES, MISR, CALIPSO, o Provides sensor-specific search tools Sciences Data Research ISCCP, SAGE III, MOPITT, TES and from field as well as more general tools and Center (ASDC) Center and airborne campaigns including DISCOVER- services, such as atmosphere product AQ, ATTREX, AirMISR, INTEX-A&B subsetting o Responsible for processing all science data o Provides unique expertise on Earth products for CERES (on TRMM, Terra, Aqua, Radiation Budget, solar radiation, and SNPP) and MISR (on Terra) instruments atmosphere composition, o MEaSUREs Program datasets tropospheric chemistry and aerosols o Connectivity to LaRC science teams Alaska Satellite Geophysical o Spaceborne data: o Provides specialized support in SAR Facility (ASF) Institute at the Seasat, RADARSAT-1 processing and enhanced data DAAC University of Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) products for science researchers Alaska, PALSAR, o Provides science support for Polar Fairbanks European Remote Sensing Satellite-1, -2 processes and land vegetation (ERS-1 and -2), measurements associated with SAR Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1 (JERS- instruments 1) o Airborne mission data: Airborne SAR (AIRSAR), Jet Propulsion Laboratory Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle SAR (UAVSAR) o MEaSUREs Program datasets Crustal NASA Goddard o Data and derived products from a global o Provides specialized data services in Dynamics Data Space Flight network of observing stations equipped with space geodesy and solid Earth Information Center one or more of the following measurement dynamics System (CDDIS) techniques: o Connectivity to NASA’s Space Geodesy • Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) and Lunar Network of observing systems Laser Ranging (LLR) • Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) • Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) • Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite (DORIS) o MEaSUREs Program datasets Goddard Earth NASA Goddard o Process AIRS data into standard products. o Provides expertise is atmosphere Sciences Data Space Flight Generate near-real time products (as part of composition and dynamics, global and Center LANCE) precipitation, global modeling Information o Spaceborne Data: AIRS, MLS, OMI, HIRDLS, o Provides expertise in interactive web- Services Center SORCE, TRMM, UARS, TOMS, TOVS, ACOS, based visualization & analysis tools; (GES DISC) and starting in FY14: OCO-2, GPM tools for subsetting, format DAAC o Model Data: GMAO, GDAS, GOCART conversion, data quality screening o MEaSUREs Program datasets and web-based OpenSearch services.

Global NASA Marshall o Data management for space-based lightning o Manages field campaign data from Hydrology Space Flight data from nine instruments: 7 DMSP the GPM Ground Validation Program Research Center and the Operational Linescan System (OLS) and the Hurricane Science Research Center (GHRC) University of instruments, the Optical Transient Detector Program including the Hurricane and DAAC Alabama’s (OTD) on Microlab-1, and TRMM Lightning Severe Storm Sentinel Venture Information Imaging Sensor (LIS). In addition, GHRC holds mission, as well as satellite passive Technology ancillary data from ground-based lightning microwave data for analysis of our and Systems sensors. climate and the water and energy Center (ITSC) o MEaSUREs Program datasets cycle. o Airborne: EV-1 HS3

Land Processes USGS Earth o Processes, archives, and distributes ASTER o Provides expertise, tools and services (LP) DAAC Resources data from Terra Spacecraft for discovery and analysis of NASA’s Observation o Archives and distributes Land products from land cover and land use data and Science MODIS (both Terra & Aqua Spacecraft) o Provides expertise in Geographical (EROS) Center o Distributes MEaSUREs products, including Information Systems (GIS) in Sioux Falls, Global Forest Cover Change (GFCC), Web- o Connectivity to LANDSAT data South Dakota Enabled Landsat Data (WELD), Shuttle Radar o Co-located with USGS Remote sensing Topography Mission (SRTM), Vegetation Index facilities & Phenology (VIP) MODIS Level 1 NASA Goddard o Processes, archives and distributes Level 2 o Supports extensive near real time data and Space Flight and 3 MODIS Atmosphere products and management for Fire Detection, Early Atmosphere Center MODIS Level 1 products (calibrated radiances Famine Warning, Flood Warnings, etc. Data System and geolocation) from Terra and Aqua o Experts in MODIS radiance data (LAADS) National Snow Cooperative o Archives and distributes products from o Provides unique expertise in snow and Ice Data Institute for AQUA AMSR-E, AVHRR, ICESat/GLAS, and ice datasets including the arctic Center (NSIDC) Research in Cryosphere products from MODIS Terra and ice minimum/ maximum extents, DAAC Environmental Aqua, NIMBUS, TOVS and field campaign experts in Arctic Sea Ice and Sciences, at datasets. Greenland Ice Sheets University of o Archives and distributes products from Colorado MEaSUREs and field campaigns (Cold Land Boulder Processes) Ocean Data NASA Goddard o Processes, archives and distributes products o Provides expertise to users on sensor Processing Space Flight from VIIRS/SNPP, MODIS/Terra and Aqua, calibration / characterization, user- System (ODPS) Center SeaWiFS/OV-2, CZCS/NIMBUS-7, Aquarius / enabled processing software using DAAC SAC-D, HICO/ISS, MERIS/Envisat, OCM- SeaDAS, product validation by users 2/Oceansat-2, MOS/IRS-P3, OCTS/ADEOS, through SeaBASS and GOCI/COMS. o Archives and distributes products from MEaSUREs projects Oak Ridge Dept. of o Field campaigns: Terrestrial Ecology intensive o Provides specialized data tools and National Lab Energy’s Oak campaigns to address key scientific questions services for terrestrial ecologists (ORNL) DAAC Ridge National o Land validation: provides field data to assess including the Spatial Data Access Tool, Laboratory the accuracy and uncertainty of NASA’s WebGIS, and MODIS Land Product remote sensing products Subsets . These tools enable o Model Archive includes the source code, ecologists to focus on data input data, and output results for parameters from instruments like standardized terrestrial biogeochemical MODIS without having to break down models, many supporting the North large volume datasets. American Carbon Program o Co-located with the Dept. of Energy o Regional and global data: Collections of data Atmosphere Radiation Measurement for Climate, Vegetation, Soil and other (ARM) Climate Research Facility environmental variables o EV-1 CARVE and AirMOSS Physical Jet Propulsion o Processes, archives and distributes data from o Provides specific expertise in gravity Oceanography Laboratory oceanography missions and projects, data sets, sea surface temperature (PO) DAAC including Aquarius, GRACE, NSCAT, and salinity, ocean surface QuikSCAT, Jason-1, TOPEX/POSEIDON, topography, ocean currents and GHRSST, and MEaSUREs. circulation. Socio-Economic Center for o Human population distribution on a latitude- o Co-located with the Center for DAAC (SEDAC) International longitude grid (U.S. and global) International Earth Science Earth Science o Human settlements and infrastructure, Information Network at the Columbia Information including roads, reservoirs, and dams University Network o Ecosystem, agriculture, and wetlands data o Creates complex, custom datasets (CIESIN), at o Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from NASA remote sensing products Columbia (IPCC) socioeconomic scenarios merged with socio-economic data e.g. University. o Environmental sustainability indicators census data o Global data on natural hazards, poverty, and air and water pollution