Science Utilizing Data from Spire Global as Part of the NASA Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program

Abstract

Under its Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program, NASA has evaluated data from and entered into a sustained purchase agreement with Spire Global, Inc. The primary goal of this agreement is to make Spire datasets available to the research community to enhance the scientific objectives of the Earth Science Division (ESD), though the applicability to the NASA Heliophysics Division of these data is noted as well. The purpose of this talk is to present the data holdings from Spire and to present scientific results that have utilized these commercially acquired data.