Increasing NASA Earth Science Data Accessibility with GIS

Published July 22, 2023, 11:40 a.m. by Violet Harris

NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program has invested in Open Science by migrating its Earth science datasets to the cloud and deploying Esri and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)-compliant web services to support enhanced data discovery, access, visualization, and analysis. In this initiative, specialized image, feature, and geoprocessing services are developed to interact with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications without manual data processing. NASA’s curated web services enhance access to Earth Observation (EO) and Human Dimensions (HD) data. These services allow users to spatially and temporally analyze multidimensional high-use datasets natively in primary GIS tools and software.

In this webinar, see Earthdata GIS in action as we demonstrate these services and capabilities.

**Note: There is a known Esri bug when opening an item (.pitemx) from Portal for ArcGIS in ArcGIS Pro that fails when the active portal is not the portal the item is coming from, returning an error message. As a workaround, switch the active portal to the portal with the content. Open the .pitemx file again. To do this: Click the Sign In menu in the upper corner of ArcGIS Pro. Click Manage Portals. Add Portal. Enter https://gis.earthdata.nasa.gov/portal/home/ (if already added, simply click Switch to designate this Portal”). Navigate to your downloaded item file (.pitemx) and double-click to open**.

Presentation Slide Deck: https://go.nasa.gov/46cUMY6