Welcome to the ASTER-Data-Resources repository! This repository provides guides, short how-tos, and tutorials to help users access and work with data from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) mission. With the competion of the Final ASTER processing campaign and release of version 4 products, over 4.7 million ASTER observations from 2000 to 2025 are now available in the archive!
Instructions for setting up a compatible environment for working with ASTER data is linked below.
Clone or download the ASTER-Data-Resources repository.
- Download
- To clone the repository, type
git clone https://github.com/nasa/ASTER-Data-Resources.gitin the command line.
| Resource | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Exploring ASTER L1T Radiance | Jupyter Notebook | Search, access, and work with ASTER L1T Radiance |
| Finding and Accessing ASTER Data | Jupyter Notebook | Search, access, and filter ASTER Version 4 data collections using UMM metadata with the earthaccess Python library |
If you use this resource or an associated data product for your research, we appreciate a citation.
For each data product used, you can retrieve a citation in your desired format from the product pages below.
| Product | Product Page | Collection Shortname |
|---|---|---|
| ASTER L1A Reconstructed Unprocessed Instrument Data | https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST_L1A.004 | AST_L1A |
| ASTER L1B Registered Radiance at the Sensor | https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST_L1B.004 | AST_L1B |
| ASTER Level 1T Precision Terrain Corrected Registered At-Sensor Radiance | https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST_L1T.004 | AST_L1T |
| ASTER L2 Surface Radiance TIR | https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST_09T.004 | AST_09T |
| ASTER L2 Surface Kinetic Temperature | https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST_08.004 | AST_08 |
| ASTER L2 Surface Emissivity | https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST_05.004 | AST_05 |
| ASTER L2 Surface Radiance VNIR and SWIR | https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST_09.004 | AST_09 |
| ASTER L2 Surface Radiance VNIR and Crosstalk Corrected SWIR V004 | https://doi.org/10.5067/aster/ast_09xt.004 | AST_09XT |
| ASTER L2 Surface Reflectance VNIR and SWIR | https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST_07.004 | AST_07 |
| ASTER L2 Surface Reflectance VNIR and Crosstalk Corrected SWIR | https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST_07XT.004 | AST_07XT |
| ASTER Digital Elevation Model | https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST14DEM.004 | AST14DEM |
LP DAAC also develops and maintains additional resources, available at https://github.com/nasa/LPDAAC-Data-Resources. This landing repository provides general guides and tutorials, as well as links to mission-specific repositories that offer detailed guides, tutorials, how-tos, and scripts to help users find, access, and work with each mission’s data products.
| GitHub Repository | Summary | Contents Description |
|---|---|---|
| AppEEARS Data Resources | How to use the Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) | Tutorials, AppEEARS API, Direct S3 Access |
| AppEEARS QGIS Plugin | Browse and load cloud-optimized geotiff output files from AppEEARS directly into QGIS | QGIS Plugin |
| ECOSTRESS Data Resources | How to find, access, and work with ECOSTRESS data (The ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station) | Tutorials, Scripts, Direct S3 Access |
| EMIT Data Resources | How to find, access, and work with EMIT data (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation) | Tutorials, Scripts, Direct S3 Access |
| GEDI Data Resources | How to find, access, and work with GEDI data (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) | Tutorials |
| HLS Data Resources | How to find, access, and work with HLS data (Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2) | Tutorials, Scripts, Direct S3 Access |
| LPDAAC Data Resources | How to find, access, and work with LPDAAC data | Tutorials, Scripts, Direct S3 Access |
| MODIS-VIIRS Data Resources | How to find, access, and work with MODIS and VIIRS data | Tutorials |
| VITALS | How to find and work with EMIT and ECOSTRESS data together | Tutorials |
Email: LPDAAC@usgs.gov
Voice: +1-866-573-3222
Organization: Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)¹
Website: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/centers/lp-daac
¹Work performed under USGS contract G15PD00467 for NASA contract NNG14HH33I.