Tools and Services to Discover and Work with NISAR Data

Launching in early 2024, the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission is upon us and will bring an unprecedented amount of SAR data to the international SAR science community. To handle its 50PB of SAR data per year, NISAR uses novel approaches to data processing, management, and distribution. NISAR also offers a unique product portfolio that is adding several analysis ready data products to the typical SAR fare.This paper summarizes innovative approaches developed by the Alaska Satellite Facility and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to make NISAR’s massive data set accessible to the community. We summarize developed concepts for data discovery and distribution, and highlight tools and services that enable working with SAR data directly at the archive. We close with a range of education and training efforts developed across the SAR community that will help familiarize users with NISAR processing flows.