NOAA Open Data alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of NOAA Open Data, shown against it.

NOAA Open Data NASA Earthdata Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem USGS EarthExplorer
Vendor National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NASA (EOSDIS) European Space Agency / European Commission United States Geological Survey
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 analysts needing authoritative free weather, climate and ocean data at varying time scales. Researchers and agencies needing free, authoritative access to NASA's full satellite Earth-observation archive. Researchers and analysts needing free, high-resolution European satellite imagery and near-daily monitoring products. Researchers needing free, long-term historical satellite imagery for land-cover change analysis.
Pricing

Free and unrestricted as US government data.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Free with registration; funded by NASA 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 with USGS registration; funded as US government data.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • Real-time and forecast weather model data
  • Satellite and radar imagery
  • Century-scale historical climate records
  • Ocean and buoy observation data
  • Cloud-hosted bulk datasets (NODD)
  • Public APIs and web search tools
  • Multiple update cadences by dataset
  • Full EOSDIS satellite data archive
  • Earthdata Search web interface
  • Cloud (AWS)-hosted datasets
  • Multi-decade historical coverage for some sensors
  • Discipline-specific data centers
  • Programmatic API access
  • Free registration-based downloads
  • Full Sentinel-1/2/3/5P satellite archive
  • 10m resolution Sentinel-2 optical imagery
  • Radar (SAR) data from Sentinel-1
  • Atmospheric composition data (Sentinel-5P)
  • Browser-based data viewer
  • OGC-compliant APIs and on-demand processing
  • Free global registration
  • Full Landsat archive since 1972
  • 30m (15m panchromatic) resolution imagery
  • Cloud-cover and date-range search filters
  • Declassified historical imagery
  • Digital elevation models
  • Bulk scene ordering
  • Machine-to-Machine (M2M) API

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