NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near Real-Time Capability for EOS (LANCE): Delivering Data and Imagery to Meet the Needs of Near Real-Time Applications

Abstract: NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) is a virtual system that provides near real-time EOS data and imagery from the AIRS, AMSR2, LIS (ISS), MISR, MLS, MODIS, MOPITT, OMI, OMPS, and VIIRS instruments, to meet the needs of scientists and application users interested in monitoring a wide variety of natural and man-made phenomena. NRT imagery from LANCE are available through NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), Worldview, FIRMS and most recently through World…