Our Vision
To make Earth-observation data more accessible and understandable, transforming observations into knowledge for a better-informed and more sustainable future.
Earth Observation Data Platform
Explore, download, visualize, and process Earth data on the atmosphere, climate, land, and ocean.
To make Earth-observation data more accessible and understandable, transforming observations into knowledge for a better-informed and more sustainable future.
Developing accessible interfaces and data-analysis tools that empower researchers, stakeholders, and the public to discover, explore, visualize, and analyze Earth-observation data.
We will tap into the Earth science community's end-to-end capability as an open enterprise to incorporate innovation, scientific discovery, and emerging user needs to accelerate the use of Earth science and inform the next iteration of programs, missions, and initiatives.
What comes back out — and the needs that set the next iteration.
Findings and tools shaped for the people who act on them.
Retrievals, comparisons and statistics that turn a granule into a measurement.
The archives themselves: what the instruments recorded, from space, air and ground.
User needs inform the next iteration of programs and missions.
RASAD is built to carry Earth-observation missions from more than one programme — the same search, the same figures, whichever agency flew the instrument.
The European Space Agency flies Earth Explorers to answer one scientific question each, and the Copernicus Sentinels to keep an operational watch on the planet. Between them they cover cloud and aerosol, wind, gravity, soil moisture, ice thickness, forest carbon and atmospheric composition.
NASA's Earth science fleet has been recording the planet continuously since the 1990s, from Terra and Aqua through GPM, OCO, ICESat-2 and PACE. Its long, calibrated records are what make a single overpass legible as part of a trend.
What each spacecraft measures, the orbit it flies, and where it stands on the platform. The missions still ahead are listed in the order they are being brought on.
Cloud, aerosol and radiation, profiled in one column of air.
Daily global mapping of the trace gases in the troposphere.
Seventeen years of lidar profiles through cloud and aerosol.
Meteosat's view from 0°, every fifteen minutes since 2004.
Air quality over Europe, hour by hour, from geostationary orbit.
Aerosol, surface temperature and colour along a wide swath.
Wind profiles from a Doppler lidar, pole to pole.
NASA's Eyes on the Earth, running inside this page — every Earth-observing spacecraft where it is at this moment.
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Straight from NASA's Earth Observatory and ESA's Observing the Earth newsroom.
Image: This image over part of West Antarctica was captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 30 September 2026.
Image: While the final eight IRIDE Eaglet II satellites were launched a week ago, the first images from Eaglet II satellites launched earlier are being returned, including a view of…
Image: This image from Copernicus Sentinel-2, acquired on 5 April 2026, shows the Etosha National Park in northern Namibia.
Just two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from two of its key instruments – a major milestone that confirms the…
Everything between the search and the paper happens here — no reader to write, no colour scale to look up, nothing to install.
Rendered by the platform — geolocation, local solar time and the ground already in place, at the colour convention the product expects.
Point, radius and window — orbit, frame and baseline resolve themselves.
Each granule drawn to its own convention, one click after landing.
Low, medium and native grids, switched without re-downloading.
One click on the track, with the spread of its neighbours behind it.
Between any two points of the pass, mapped and tabulated.
Overpasses checked against ACTRIS and Cloudnet stations, or a station file of your own.
A scene that falls on a boundary is still one continuous curtain.
PNG for the paper, Excel for everything after it.
Pick the place and the window that matter to you.
Collection, baseline and frame resolve themselves.
Geolocated, ground-referenced, ready for the paper.
Granules land once and are shared between accounts — your quota counts only what is actually yours.
Every pass recorded over your region is one search away.
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