NASA Earthdata GIS (EGIS) Enterprise Enhances Climate Analytic Processes by Sharing High Use Authoritative Datasets

NASA Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) has and continues to expand public, scientific, and policy analysis capabilities globally through the deployment of a new enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS). Specifically, NASA Earthdata GIS, EGIS, is now disseminating popular datasets from NASA ESDS’s archive as authoritative web apps, maps, and services.

EGIS’s ArcGIS Image, Feature, and Geoprocessing services are always accompanied by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) services such as Web Mapping Services (WMS), Web Feature Services (WFS), Web Processing Services (WPS), and Web Coverage Services (WCS). Additionally, each authoritative service is free and available to the public, with content from 18 contributors. EGIS currently supports 134 service layers, 51 applications, and 36 maps, including content showcased in the virtual Earth Information Center (EIC) site.

EGIS’s selection of services, produced from Analysis Ready Cloud Optimized (ARCO) data, are designed to be performant and responsive allowing users to perform identify and analysis calls quickly. All calls are performed with a user’s GIS analysis tool of choice through our RESTful endpoint connections. Our connections allow for analysis on a single time slice or a timer series in a variety of common GIS analysis suites including ArcGIS, QGIS, R, and Python.

Using our web maps, apps, and services allows users to reduce time spent “wrangling” data and increase time for science and analysis. Allowing users to interrogate regional and global, single and multidimensional, and time enabled NASA authoritative data “on demand” instead of downloading niche and complex files that need to be stored on local machines. EGIS is proud to announce that we are in production as a sustained and operational system, but also growing and adding new datasets to our service offerings.

In addition to our data offerings, EGIS produces and publishes Jupyter Notebooks, tutorials, StoryMaps, webinars, and other use case guides. We strive to demystify the data access and integration process through identifying and reducing challenges to finding, working with, and sharing our data.