The World Soil Museum of ISRIC – World Soil Information (WDS Regular Member) in Wageningen can now be visited online . The museum has a collection of reference soil profiles from around the world. These 3D profiles, or monoliths, are used to explain main soil forming factors and to show the importance of the soil for ensuring food security, mitigating climate change, or in terms of their ...
On 1 April 2016, NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC; WDS Regular Member ) began distributing ASTER Level 1 Precision Terrain Corrected Registered At-Sensor Radiance (AST_L1T) data products over the entire globe at no charge. Greater than 2.95 million scenes of archived ASTER data are now available for direct download through the LP DAAC Data Pool and for search ...
Four of the major international science organizations—ICSU, ISSC, IAP, and TWAS * —have come together to develop and support an Accord on ' Open Data in a Big Data World '. CODATA and WDS played a role in the creation of the Accord, which includes a set of guiding principles on open access to Big Data that necessarily protects the scientific process and ensures that developing countries can ...
The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) enables users to input precise sample locations and access analysis-ready data from tiled land MODIS products held by the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC; WDS Regular Member). Note that AppEEARS is considered Beta at this time and feedback can be sent through its interface .
A recent ...
The NASA Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) AMSR2 Processing Center at the Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (WDS Regular Member) has announced the availability of the dataset NRT AMSR2 Daily L3 Global SWE EASE-Grids . This dataset contains snow water equivalent (SWE) data and quality assurance flags mapped to the Northern and ...
A new Hazards Mapper tool from Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC; WDS Regular Member) combines layers from various sources to enable users to visualize data and maps related to socioeconomic, infrastructure, natural disasters, and environment topics, as well as analyze potential impacts and exposure. More information on point features such as power plants can be ...
