Satellite Data

Satellite datasets provide global coverage for climate science, geodesy, environmental monitoring, and hazard analysis.

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🌍 Major Satellite Missions

Earth Observation

• Landsat (USGS/NASA)
• Sentinel (ESA Copernicus)
• MODIS (Terra/Aqua)
• VIIRS
• ASTER
• SMAP

Topography & DEM Missions

• SRTM
• TanDEM-X (open products)
• ALOS PALSAR DEM

Sea/Ocean Missions

• Jason series
• SWOT
• Sentinel-6

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🛰️ Satellite Data Formats

• GeoTIFF
• NetCDF
• HDF5
• SAFE (Sentinel SAR)
• DIMAP (SPOT)

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🌐 Data Portals

NASA EarthData

Global EO datasets.
🔗 https://earthdata.nasa.gov

USGS EarthExplorer

Landsat, MODIS, SRTM.
🔗 https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov

Copernicus Open Access Hub

Sentinel 1–5 data.
🔗 https://scihub.copernicus.eu

NOAA CLASS

Weather, climate & ocean data.
🔗 https://www.class.noaa.gov

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🔧 Tools for Satellite Data Processing

• SNAP Toolbox
• ArcGIS / QGIS
• GDAL
• Earth Engine
• python-xarray

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🎥 YouTube Resources

• Satellite Data Analysis Tutorials
  🔗 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=satellite+data+processing