NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC
MODIS snow cover and global glacier inventories
Daily satellite snow cover extent, plus the Randolph Glacier Inventory and World Glacier Monitoring Service mass balance records used for glacier retreat and downstream water supply analysis.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- No
- Restrictions
- Applies to material authored by US federal agencies. Third-party material carried within a federal product may be separately protected.
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC
- Website
- https://nsidc.org/data
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Temporal coverage
- 2000 onwards
- Update frequency
- daily
- Formats
- netcdf, shapefile, csv
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- Yes
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- snow ice