nasa-ibm-ai4science/core-sdo
ML-Ready Multi-Modal Image Dataset from SDO Overview This dataset provides machine learning (ML)-ready solar data curated from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), covering observations from May 13, 2010, to Dec 31, 2024. It includes Level-1.5 processed data from: Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI). The dataset is designed to facilitate large-scale learning applications in heliophysics, such as space weather… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nasa-ibm-ai4science/core-sdo.

ML-Ready Multi-Modal Image Dataset from SDO
Overview
This dataset provides machine learning (ML)-ready solar data curated from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), covering observations from May 13, 2010, to Dec 31, 2024. It includes Level-1.5 processed data from: Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI).
The dataset is designed to facilitate large-scale learning applications in heliophysics, such as space weather forecasting, unsupervised representation learning, and scientific foundation model development.
Dataset Download Instructions
To download the data please visit https://registry.opendata.aws/surya-bench/
- Resource type:
S3 Bucket - Amazon Resource Name (ARN):
arn:aws:s3:::nasa-surya-bench - AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required):
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nasa-surya-bench/
Dataset Structure
Data Variables:
- aia94 (y, x) float32 : AIA 94 Å
- aia131 (y, x) float32 : AIA 131 Å
- aia171 (y, x) float32 : AIA 171 Å
- aia193 (y, x) float32 : AIA 193 Å
- aia211 (y, x) float32 : AIA 211 Å
- aia304 (y, x) float32 : AIA 304 Å
- aia335 (y, x) float32 : AIA 335 Å
- aia1600 (y, x) float32 : AIA 1600 Å (UV continuum)
- hmi_m (y, x) float32 : HMI LOS Magnetogram
- hmi_bx (y, x) float32 : HMI Magnetic Field - x component
- hmi_by (y, x) float32 : HMI Magnetic Field - y component
- hmi_bz (y, x) float32 : HMI Magnetic Field - z component
- hmi_v (y, x) float32 : HMI Doppler Velocity
Dataset Details
📦 Downstream Data Repositories
All the downstream tasks that uses core-sdo dataset can be found in the SuryaBench Hugging Face Collections
Each sub-dataset targets a specific task within the heliophysics domain:
License
This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
Authors
Sujit Roy, Dinesha V Hegde, Johannes Schmude, Rohit Lal, Vishal Gaur corr: sujit.roy@nasa.gov
