NASA’s CSDA Program is committed to identifying and evaluating commercial smallsat data that have the potential to support NASA’s Earth science research and application activities. Currently, this tool supports search, discovery, and access to data from Planet Labs PBC and Spire Global, Inc. acquired as part of the CSDA Program’s evaluation effort and ongoing collaborations. It also includes EarthDEM data products produced by the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) at the University of Minnesota. All users can browse the data holdings; however downloading data requires user authentication and approval.

The CSDA Program’s initial data evaluation phase also includes products from Maxar Technologies, Inc. (formerly DigitalGlobe, Inc.). NASA-funded investigators approved for access may submit a request for these data to the CSDA data team. In addition, the CSDA Program has an ongoing partnership with Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. Access to DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) data is available through the TCloud portal. Additional information on the CSDA Program, data availability, and the technical specifications of the commercial data can be found at the CSDA Program webpage.