Earth Science Information Partners
The technological advances and political atmosphere leading to the formation of the Federation were fueled by scientific discoveries that showed potential adverse impacts upon the environment due to human activity. The Federation is broad-based consortium of earth scientists, representing the entire research spectrum from data collection, to research, to applications development. As such, the Federation is organized around these distinct functional groupings.
- Type I ESIP Partners are primarily distributors of satellite and ground-based data sets, as well as standardized products derived from those data.
- Type II ESIP Partners are primarily providers of data and information products, technology, or services aimed primarily at the Earth science and research communities.
- Type III ESIP Partners are primarily commercial and non-commercial organizations engaged in developing tools for Earth Science.
- Type IV ESIP Partners are strategic funding partners.
To acquire ESIP Federation Partner data products, services and tools, visit http://www.esipfed.org/intercom/index.html
Type I
- Alaska Satellite Facility
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks - Atmospheric Sciences Data Center, Earth Observing System Data and Information System DAAC (EOSDIS)
Langley Research Center, NASA - Development and Maintenance of An Ocean Color Time Series
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
NASA - Global Hydrology Resource Center
University of Alabama,Huntsville - Goddard Earth Sciences Data & Information Center
Science Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center DAAC NASA - National Climatic Data Center
Department of Commerce, National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - National Geophysical Data Center
US Department of Commerce (USDOC), National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) - National Oceanographic Data Center
US Department of Commerce (USDOC), National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS), National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) DAAC
World Data Center for Glaciology, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado - Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Biogeochemical Dynamics DAAC
Battelle/NASA - Physical Oceanography DAAC
Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA - Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, DAAC (SEDAC)
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), Columbia University, NASA - Synergistic Data Support of Atmospheric Chemistry Field Camp
Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center NASA - U.S Geological Survey
The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center(LPDAAC), Earth Observing System Data and Information System, (EOSDIS) EROS Data Center, NASA
Type II
- A 0.05 Degree Global Climate/Interdisciplinary Long Term Data Set from AVHRR, MODIS and VIIRS Instruments
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA - Agent-Based Interface to Terrestrial Ecological Forecasting
Intelligent Systems Division, Ames Research Center, Exploration Technologies Directorate, NASA - Arizona Regional Image Archive
University of Arizona - Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute
- Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Center for Environmental Assessment and Disaster Management
National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC), University of Alabama, Huntsville - Center for Real-Time GPS Data and Environmental Products
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA - Chronos
- Climate Rainfall Data Center
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University - A Cross-Calibrated, Multi-Platform Ocean Surface Wind Velocity Product for Meteorological and Oceanographic Applications
Global Modeling Assimilation Office
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA - The Development of a Multiyear Global Assimilated Dataset for Weather and Climate Variability and Prediction Studies with a Focus on the Hydrological Cycle
Global Modeling Assimilation Office
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA - Digital Image Analysis Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Distributed Information Services: Climate/Ocean Products and Visualizations for Earth Research
Remote Sensing Systems, University of Alabama/Information Technology and Systems Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA - Distributed Oceanographic Data Systems
Graduate School of Oceanography
University of Rhode Island - Earth Science Partners' Private Network
Center for Geographic Information & Analysis, University of Maine - Earth System Science Education ro the 21st Century
Universities Space Research Association - Earth System Science Workbench
Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS), Donald Bren School of Enviornmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara - EosClearingHOuse (ECHO)
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA - EOS-WEBSTER (WEB based System for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research)
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire - GeoLogics Corporation
- GEON: Geosciences Network
San Diego Supercomputer Center - Global Environmental & Earth Science Information System (GENESIS)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA - Global Land Cover Facility
Department of Geography, University of Maryland - Great Plains Regional Earth Science Applications Center
University of Kansas Applied Remote Sensing - The HDF Group
- Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
IAI, Division Information Technology - The Invasive Species Data Service: Towards Operational Use of ESE Data in the USGS Invasive Species DSS
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA - Multi-Resolution Snow Products for the Hydrologic Sciences
Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, REASon Project, NASA - Multi-Year Global Dataset for Weather & Climate Variability
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA - National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
University of Colorado - Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group
College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana - Ocean Earth Science Information Partners
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA - Passive Microwave Earth Science Information Partner
Global Hydrology Resource Center, NASA - Remote Sensing-assisted Hazardous Waste Site Monitoring Decision Support System (RSHDSS)
Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, REASon Project, NASA - Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA - Sea Ice Motion and Deformation
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA - Season-Interannual ESIP,Center for Earth Observing and Space Research (CEOSR)
George Mason University - Southeastern Universities Research Association/Coastal Research/SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Program
The Southeastern University Research Association (SURA), ONR, NOAA - Systems Integration and Visualization of Yellowstone
Division of Science and Environmental Policy (DSEP), California State University Monterey Bay - TerraFly
Florida International University - The Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) - Tropical Rain Forest Information Center
Center for Global Change & Earth Observations, Michigan State University - Unidata Program Center
UCAR Office of Programs, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, National Science Foundation - Variability of Global Cloud Property Distributions
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University, NASA - Wildfire Response R&D
California State University Monterey Bay, Ames Research Center,, NASA - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research and Applications Center (RESAC), University of California at Berkeley, NASA
Type III
- Applied Coherent Technology
- Basic & Applied Spatial Information Collaborative
- Baron AMS
- Border Spatial Decision Support System
Department of Geography, San Diego State University - California Land Science Information Partners
California Resources Agency - Center for Land Use Education and Research
University of Connecticutt - Center for Research on Environment and Water (CREW)
- Digital Library for Earth System Education
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - Earth Data Analysis Center
University of New Mexico - Earth Data Discovery Consortium ESIP
New Media Studio Research Institute - Environmental Legal Information System
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering Department, University of Maryland - ESRI
- Global Systems Science
- Gloval Learning & Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - ICREST, Missouri Spatial Data Information Service
ICREST, Missouri Spatial Data Information Service, University of Missouri - Immersive Earth
Rice Space Institute, Rice University - Integrating NASA ESE Data in Agricultural DSS
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center,NASA - Itri Corporation
- Kentucky Landscape Census
Governor's Office for Technology, Kentucky - Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology & Standards
School of Computational Science, George Mason University - Measuring Vegetation Health
Museum of Science - Mentoring & Inquiring Using NASA Data
Langley Research Center, NASA - Mid-Atlantic Regional Earth Science Applications Center
Department of Geography, University of Maryland - Museums Teaching Planet Earth
Rice University;Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh - NASA Earth Observations (NEO)
- NatureServe
- Pacific Disaster Center
- Project 3-D View
U.S. Satellite Laboratory, NASA - Reading Information Technology Inc (RITI)
- Satellite Observations in Science Education
University of Wisconsin-SSEC-CIMSS - Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
- Scientific Fishery Systems
- Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET)
- Services for Helping the Air-Quality Community Use ESE Data
Washington University in St. Louis - Sinte Gleska University
- Southern California Wildlife Hazard Center
Geography Department, California State University at Long Beach - StormCenter Communications
- Tactical Geographics, L.L.C.
- TERC
- Terrain Data
Veridian Systems - TerraSIP
Department of Forest Resouces,University of Minnesota - Thetus Corporation
- Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium
University of North Dakota


