Data Access and Formats

Data Access and Formats#

There is a host of different ways to access NASA Earth observing data. This section provides a map to a selection of data access methods and user resources. At the hackweek, the focus is on accessing data from a cloud compute instance in AWS us-west-2. However, some of the access methods and tools can be used from a local machine as well.

The tutorials are organized as follows:

Overview provides an introduction to data access tools and offers some guidance on the capabilities and applicability of the different tools.
NSIDC DAAC and NASA Resources explores various resources for learning about and accessing ICESat-2, SnowEx, and other NASA Earthdata.
Using NASA EarthData Search to Discover Cloud-Hosted Data describes how to use the Earthdata Search GUI search interface for NASA data. This is probably the simplest way to search for ICESat-2, SnowEx and other NASA data.
Using earthaccess to Search for, Access and Download SnowEx Data in the Cloud presents a Python package to search for NASA datasets and granules, and to download those granules.
Using earthaccess to Search for, Access and Open ICESat-2 Data in the Cloud presents a Python package to search for NASA datasets and granules, and to download those granules, or, if you are in AWS us-west-2 cloud compute instance, open data files directly from cloud storage.