[ESIP-all] ASTER Data Available at No Charge

[Harriman (CTR), Lindsey]

On April 1, 2016, NASA’s Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center
(LP DAAC) began distributing ASTER Level 1 Precision Terrain Corrected
Registered At-Sensor Radiance (AST_L1T
<https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/dataset_discovery/aster/aster_products_table/ast_l1t>)
data products over the entire globe at no charge.

The AST_L1T product provides a quick turn-around of consistent GIS-ready
data as a multi-file product. Files in the product include: a HDF-EOS data
file, full-resolution composite GeoTIFFs, and associated metadata files. In
addition, each AST_L1T granule contains related products including
low-resolution browse, and when applicable, a Quality Assurance (QA) browse
and QA text report.

More than 2.95 million scenes of archived ASTER data are now available for
direct download through the LP DAAC Data Pool
<https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/data_access/data_pool>and for search and download
through NASA’s Earthdata Search Client <https://earthdata.nasa.gov/> and
USGS’ GloVis <http://glovis.usgs.gov/>. New scenes will be added as they
are acquired and archived.

ASTER is a partnership between NASA, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI), the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST) in Japan, and Japan Space Systems (J-spacesystems).

Learn more about ASTER data and the change in policy here
<https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/user_resources/outreach_materials/aster_no_charge_promo>
.

Read more news from the LP DAAC News Archive
<https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/about/news_archive>.



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Lindsey M. Harriman
LP DAAC Science Integration Task Manager
SGT, Inc., Contractor to the U.S.Geological Survey (USGS)
Earth Resources Observation & Science (EROS) Center
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57198-0001 USA
lindsey.harriman.ctr at usgs.gov
+1-605-594-2529
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