The Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluates and procures data from commercial vendors that advance NASA’s Earth science research and applications activities.

Currently, data acquired during the evaluations of Planet, Maxar, BlackSky, GHGSat, Airbus U.S., and Spire Global are available. Data from the Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) also are available through a separate collaboration. See the table below to learn how to access vendor-specific data. All data products are available through CSDA at no cost to authorized researchers and are subject to scientific use licenses.

The commercial data currently distributed by NASA are available under different scientific use licenses and various access portals. Please see table below for data access portals and vendor-specific end user license agreement (EULA) information. Check back for updates on new data acquisitions.

Maxar data requests are supported by the CSDA program data team. Access requests may be made by filling out the authorization request form.

Data and End User License Agreements

Vendor	Data Available	Date Range	EULA	Who is authorized to use the data	Where to get archived data
Planet	PlanetScope	6/29/2014-Present	Planet Expanded EULA	U.S. Federal civil agencies (including NSF) and their funded researchers	SDX
	RapidEye	2/1/2009-12/31/2019
	SkySat	3/10/2015-12/12/2019
Maxar (formerly DigitalGlobe)	WorldView 1	09/18/2007-Present	Commercial Data/Imagery EULAs Fact Sheet	NASA (funded) researchers	CSDA data team
	WorldView 2	10/8/2009-Present
	WorldView 3	8/13/2014-Present
	GeoEye-1	9/6/2008-Present
	QuickBird	10/18/2001-1/27/2015
	IKONOS	10/24/1999-3/31/2015	NextView License
	WorldView 4	12/1/2016- 1/7/2019	Maxar EULA
BlackSky	Spaceview-24	11/29/2018- 07/31/2023	USG EULA	U.S. Government (funded) researchers	SDX
GHGSat	Methane Abundance and Emission Rates	01/03/2021- 04/31/2024	USG EULA	U.S. Government (funded) researchers	SDX
Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc.	DESIS	11/21/2018- 05/31/2024	USG EULA	U.S. Government (funded) researchers	For available archived data contact: support-csda@nasa.gov
Polar Geospatial Center	EarthDEM		Commercial Data/Imagery EULAs Fact Sheet	U.S. Government (funded) researchers	SDX
Airbus U.S.	TerraSAR-X	11/19/2007-11/25/2022	Airbus U.S. USG EULA	U.S. Government (funded) researchers	SDX
	TanDEM-X	2/3/2011-11/4/2022
	PAZ	9/20/2018-10/2/2022
Spire	GNSS Radio Occultation	9/24/2018 - 12/9/2018; 12/14/2018 - 3/8/2019; 11/1/2019-Present	Spire USG EULA	U.S. Government (funded) researchers	SDX
	GNSS Grazing Angle Reflectometry	1/9/2019-4/18/2019; 11/1/2019-Present
	GNSS Grazing Angle Reflectometry Sea Ice	3/1/2020-Present
	GNSS Grazing Angle Reflectometry Altimetry	6/16/2020-Present
	GNSS-R Level-1 Bistatic RCS	5/1/2021-Present
	Ionospheric Profiles	11/1/2019-Present
	Magnetometer	11/1/2019-Present			Request authorization
	Raw Radio Occultation	6/17/2020-9/8/2020			By request (PDF)
	Satellite Precise Orbital Determination (POD) and Satellite Attitude	9/24/2018-4/18/2019; 11/1/2019-Present			SDX
	Scintillation	11/1/2019-Present
	Total Electron Content	11/1/2019-Present
	Ocean Winds and MSS	5/1/2021-Present

Principal Investigators (PIs) should submit publications as a courtesy copy to the vendor.

Value-Added Product means a work that is created when a Licensed User modifies Licensed Material—through technical manipulation, addition of data, or both—where the principal features and characteristics of the source Licensed Material are retained in the work and are extractable through technical means. Value-Added Products created from Licensed Material received under this agreement will be considered as Licensed Material.

Derived Product means a work that is created when a Licensed User exploits Licensed Material in a manner that irreversibly modifies and uncouples the work from its source, such that extraction of the principal features and characteristics of the source Licensed Material is impracticable. This includes but is not limited to License User derived Digital Elevation Models. Derived Products are not considered Licensed Materials.

All data requests must be approved by CSDA data managers. To request access to CSDA data offerings, complete the CSDA Authorization form. The CSDA team will verify if the user is authorized for data access first. Once verified, the user will be provided with additional information on how to request and access data.

Get answers to frequently asked questions about accessing and requesting commercial data.

For vendor-specific details, including a list of available satellites, their orbits, and instrument temporal and spectral resolutions, please see information for each vendor using the vendor links above.