Improvements and Additions to NASA Near Real-Time Earth Imagery

For many years, the NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) has worked closely with the Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) system to provide near real-time imagery visualizations of AIRS, MLS, MODIS, OMI, and recently VIIRS science parameters. These visualizations are readily available through standard web services and the NASA Worldview client. Access to near real-time imagery provides a critical capability to GIBS and Worldview users. GIBS' continues to focus on improving its commitment to providing near real-time imagery for end-user applications. The focus of this presentation will be the following completed or planned GIBS system and imagery enhancements relating to near real-time imagery visualization:

Reduced latency for "high resolution" data products Reduced latency for Web Mercator re-projected imagery Updated data scaling and color maps Correlated historical full-mission visualizations Additional imagery:

AMSR2 Ice, Land, Rain, and Snow GPM and IMERG Rain, Snow, & Brightness Temperature MISR Radiance MODIS Atmosphere MODIS Land/Cryosphere