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NASA Earthdata alternatives
3 tools to consider instead of NASA Earthdata, shown against it.
| NASA Earthdata | USGS EarthExplorer | Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem | NOAA Open Data | |
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| Vendor | NASA (EOSDIS) | United States Geological Survey | European Space Agency / European Commission | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| Pricing model | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud |
| Open source | No | No | No | No |
| Best for | Researchers and agencies needing free, authoritative access to NASA's full satellite Earth-observation archive. | Researchers needing free, long-term historical satellite imagery for land-cover change analysis. | Researchers and analysts needing free, high-resolution European satellite imagery and near-daily monitoring products. | Researchers and analysts needing authoritative free weather, climate and ocean data at varying time scales. |
| Pricing | Free with registration; funded by NASA as US government data. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Free with USGS registration; funded as US government data. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Free with registration; funded by the EU as open public infrastructure. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Free and unrestricted as US government data. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. |
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