National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), in partnership with the Civil Applications Committee (CAC), of which NASA is a member, provides access to its immense archive of unclassified commercial high-resolution satellite data to non-DOD government agencies under terms of its NextView contract.

The NextView contract (see slide at left for details) stipulates that the data can be used by all branches, departments, and offices of the U.S. Government. With appropriate approval and acknowledgement, the data can also be shared with NGO's, state/local governments, Intergovernmental agencies, as well as universities, and foreign governments if the use is in support of U.S. government interests. Goddard Space Flight Center has been tasked with providing an interface to these data for NASA-funded investigations.

After registering and logging in, you can submit data request parameters that we use to search for high-resolution commercial satellte data on limited-access NGA interfaces. Details about each of the sensors and their available coverage are also provided here. This site does not directly link to active searching. Search request information is submitted via the web site and the NGA discovery tools are used by our staff to satisfy requests.