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Applications White Paper

Snow capped mountains with glaciers running between them and green land covered in foliage in the upper left and lower right corners. The Great Aletsch Glacier is in the center of the image, Fiescher Glacier up and right of that, and the Oberaletsch in the lower left. All three glaciers terminate and drain into the valley at the bottom of the image.

Mountain Glaciers and Snow Hydrology

4/15/2023

A map image with red pixels indicate northward motion, while blue pixels show movement to the south. The data highlights ground displacements of more than 3 meters (10 feet) along portions of the fault, for a total offset of more than 6 meters in some places. Distinctly right along the dashed line overlay of the fault the dots are overwhelmingly blue on the right and red on the left. There is some color mixture farther away from the fault, but the highlighted city lower on the fault, Nay Pyi Taw shows a distinct color barrier. Concentric circles along the fault line indicate the location of the Mainshock and Aftershock, 7.7and 6.7 magnitude respectively. Sagaing is nestled directly between them with Mandalay just right and up from there. Chiang Mai, Thailand, is also labeled on the far right edge of the image.

Earthquake! Tracking Location and Impact from Space

9/2/2022

The gray-blue waters of Lake Chapala center in the image. The foreground is speckled with foliage while above the lake the land is more bare, including Guadalajara, which appears more vibrant in color than the surrounding area.

Soil Moisture and Water Resources

2/26/2019

The image shows the Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas region with state border overlays. At the top of the image the Starbuck fire crosses from Kansas into Oklahoma. Just South of this fire is the 238 fire, to the east of which is the Selman fire. The Perryton fire is shown in the bottom left, almost entirely within the Texas border.

Damage Mapping

2/26/2019

Changes in Permafrost

2/26/2019

A sinkhole jeopardizes a nearby home's structural integrity. The brick of the basement is visible and damaged. The yard and fence above hold together despite the gravel road's collapse.

Sinkholes and Cavern Collapse

2/26/2017

A pool of steaming water resides in this volcanic crater while glacial snow pack surrounds the hot volcano.

Volcanic Hazards

2/26/2017

The image is grayscale of a coastal landscape with an overlay of land movement colored in shades of pale yellow to red. The image is centered on a spot that shows significant landside movement on the provided scale, which is as much as 10 centimeters per week. There are buildings labeled in this area or Rancho Palos Verdes and the region of movement expands outside of the 2007 boundary labeled by California Geological Survey.

Landslides

2/26/2017

The light brown waters of the Uruguay River breach its banks on both sides of the border between Argentina, upper portion of the image,and Brazil in the lower. The smaller Ibicui river, running perpendicularly to the Uruguay River through Brazil, also overflows it's meandering banks. In the upper right corner the border town of Itaqui is visible on otherwise green and tan vegetation and agriculture.

Floods

2/26/2017

NISAR is suspended in orbit above Earth. NISAR's flight antenna system and antenna reflector are fully extended above the satellite.

Induced Seismicity

2/26/2017

satellite view of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas with state lines overlaid on the landscape show sweeping light orange haze of dust encompassing Lubbock Texas and sweeping up and to the right over Stillwater Oklahoma. Multiple streams of smoke emanate from the region around Stillwater and show light gray drifting toward the top right corner of the image. White clouds populate most of the top left corner and the very edge of the upper right.

Hazards in Texas

2/26/2017

Near the center of the Everglades National Park, a dense layer of sawgrass covers the ground — receding towards a line of tall, slender trees that sway in the breeze. Behind the trees, large cumulonimbus clouds loom over the scene.

Coastal Land Loss

2/26/2017

image of oily water, overlayed with the words "Oil Slick" and a QR code

Oil Spills

2/26/2017

Store Glacier

Ice Sheets, Glaciers, and Oceans

2/26/2017

A view from Earth orbit above western Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, showing a real image of Hurricane Flossie on July 1st, 2025. .

Marine Hazards

2/26/2017

The ice covered landscape includes sea ice and a small sliver of near black appearing crescents of ocean at the edge of the amundsen gulf, center in the image. To the left of that is the Beaufort Sea, covered in densely packed, but broken ice. Cloud, snow or a combination of the two cover the Canadian land at the bottom of the image, with it wrapping up around the Amundsen gulf on the right

Sea Ice

2/26/2017

amid an image full of a variety of shades green of foliage there is a dark swath labeled burned area outlined by a bright red and yellow colored area labeled active fire via infrared heat signature. The more upper right portion of the image has the widest and most vibrant red and yellow active fire

Fire Management

2/26/2017

Food Security

2/26/2017

A dense, green carpet of mangrove treetops stretches into the distance, eventually meeting the ocean. Clouds cast their shadows on the trees from above.

Forest Resources

2/26/2017

steam rises off the green tree canopy that consumes the entire lower third of this image, obscured in patches by the steam. Above is a light pink sky with a long stretching cloud across the sky. horizon.

Timber and Forest Disturbance

2/26/2017

The Cache River moves across the image on a diagonal from the upper right to the lower left. The water well exceeds it's normal banks and spans across what is typically farmland. Another parallel river in the upper left appears to well exceed it's banks. The land between these rivers and in the lower right is primarily gridded fields, some are blue as they are likely intentionally flooded, but primarily they are shades of beige.

Flood Forecasting

2/26/2017

Satellite image of Florida with thin clouds interspersed over the land. The Cities of Pensacola, Perry and Tampa are marked along the Gulf Coast. The nearby Gulf Coast waters appear turquoise as far from the coastline as about half the width of Florida.

Hazards in Florida

2/26/2017

Cracked earth.

Drought and Groundwater Withdrawal

2/26/2017

Person kneeling on reddish-brown, rocky ground, near a small hole, with a steep, snow-patched mountain in the background. They are wearing purple nitrile gloves and holding a tiny, open vial in one hand while digging with the other. A golden wire stretches across the dirt and into the hole in the ground.

Oil, Gas, and Water Underground Reservoirs

2/26/2017

Depleted surface water in the Colorado River Basin has left this visible "bathtub ring" of mineral deposits on Lake Mead. But underground water loss is invisible. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Levees and Dams

2/26/2017

Subsidence

2/26/2017

Mission Specific Documents

side tilt view of NISAR

NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission Science Users' Handbook

8/1/2019

artist rendering of NISAR with tilt

NISAR Utilization Plan

9/4/2018

Artist Rendering of NISAR no tilt

NISAR Mission Calibration and Validation Plan

5/14/2018

Science White Paper

NISAR is suspended in orbit above Earth. NISAR's flight antenna system and antenna reflector are fully extended above the satellite.

NISAR Brochure

11/10/2021

A color close-up photo of the Martian surface shows flat, mostly smooth, tan-orange ground, marked with a few shallow grooves and indentations. At the center is a hole cored into the ground, surrounded by material dug out from the hole, which looks like a mixture of soil and sharp flakes or shards of rock. Those are similarly colored to the surrounding ground.

Earth Surface and Interior White Paper

1/1/2016

January 1973 Landsat 1 MSS image of Pine Island Glacier with several bumpy areas visible on the ice surface.

Cryosphere White Paper

1/1/2016

Gregory Goldsmith from Chapman University launches a slingshot into the forest canopy to install a carbon dioxide sensor in the canopy of a Costa Rican rainforest near the Rincón de la Vieja volcano.

Ecosystems White Paper

1/1/2016

Two tan color rivers transect deep green foliage of the Venezuela landscape. Arrows indicate flow direction along the larger river, Río Orinoco, as right to left and Río Casiquiare which is much smaller and branches off toward the bottom of the image has water flowing down, away from the larger river.

Water White Paper

1/1/2016

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