Data Services/Pricing

Overview of Services

NGDC maintains an archive of all data recorded on DMSP satellites as relayed to NGDC by Air Force Weather Agency. The archive contains OLS (fine), T, T2, IES, J4, M data.

The end user can obtain raw data from the sensors, download some standard products from the DMSP Data Download Web Site as well as order custom products for nighttime lights, fires and non standard data requests.

Finding data:
Web location of OLS browse images

Use the NGDC online browse system called Spidr to find OLS data. (VIS and TIR files) The url to Spidr is: http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov/spidr/

For Data availabilty of each satellite:

See the following link for Date/Range of each satelite for DMSP sensors. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/availability.html

Ordering Data

• Please Contact Us for Pricing

1. What dates do you need data for?
2. What are the latitude and longitude of the area you are interested in?
3. Do you need Day or Night data?
4. Which satellites do you want? Date/ranges of F10 - F15
   
5. Do you want to substitute another satellite if no data is found?
6. Do you need the OLS full orbit? Or sub-orbited? A full orbit begins at the equator, then makes one vertical revolution of the earth and ends when it reaches the equator. A suborbit is only a portion of the full orbit. Example of a sub/full orbit
7. Do you need the OLS data Geolocated? (VIS and TIR files) With geolocated data, the user can obtain a latitude and longitude for any point on an image.
8. What file format you would like: (binary, tiff, png, jpeg)
9. If image format, would you like additional information added to the Image? (i.e. coastlines, country boundaries, state boundaries)
10. Select the output media:

To order data email:

• NGDC DMSP Email account

Thank you for your interest in our data.