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BOREAS Forest Cover Data Layers Over the SSA-MSA in Raster Format 1 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS DIGITIZER 1993-01-01 to 1993-12-31

N: 54.1 S: 53.75 E: -104.49 W: -105.19

Binary
BOREAS Forest Cover Layers of the NSA in Raster Format 1 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS DIGITIZER 1988-01-01 to 1992-12-31

N: 56.07 S: 55.72 E: -97.83 W: -98.82

Binary
BOREAS HYD-03 1996 Tree Stem Density Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1996-03-03 to 1996-03-08

N: 53.99 S: 53.63 E: -105.12 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS HYD-03 Canopy Density Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION DENSIOMETERS 1994-02-07 to 1994-04-26

N: 55.93 S: 53.75 E: -97.82 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS HYD-03 SSA/OLD Aspen DBH Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION STEEL MEASURING TAPE 1996-03-08 to 1996-03-08

N: 53.99 S: 53.63 E: -105.12 W: -106.2

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BOREAS HYD-03 Subcanopy Meteorological Data 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS WIND MONITOR, Pyrgeometer, HUMIDITY SENSORS, TEMPERATURE PROBES, INFRARED THERMOMETERS 1994-02-06 to 1996-03-08

N: 53.99 S: 53.63 E: -104.69 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS HYD-03 Subcanopy Radiation Data 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS PYRANOMETERS 1994-02-06 to 1996-03-08

N: 53.99 S: 53.63 E: -104.69 W: -106.2

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BOREAS HYD-05 Bear Trap Creek and Namekus Lake Winter Surface Flux Data 1 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS PYRANOMETERS, NET RADIOMETERS, SONIC ANEMOMETER, THERMOCOUPLES, HUMIDITY SENSORS, EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES 1994-02-01 to 1996-04-11

N: 53.85 S: 53.83 E: -106.04 W: -106.17

ASCII
BOREAS HYD-06 Ground Gravimetric Soil Moisture Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION BALANCE, CORING DEVICES, SNOW TUBE 1993-09-08 to 1994-09-05

N: 57 S: 53.38 E: -98.23 W: -106.33

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BOREAS HYD-06 Moss/Humus Moisture Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION SNOW TUBE, BALANCE 1993-09-09 to 1994-09-05

N: 55.94 S: 53.64 E: -98.23 W: -105.32

ASCII
BOREAS HYD-08 1994 Gravimetric Moss Moisture Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION BALANCE 1994-06-25 to 1994-09-16

N: 55.88 S: 55.47 E: -98.15 W: -98.48

ASCII
BOREAS HYD-08 1996 Gravimetric Moss Moisture Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION BALANCE 1996-07-04 to 1996-08-13

N: 53.99 S: 53.99 E: -105.12 W: -105.12

ASCII
BOREAS HYD-08 1996 Gross Precipitation Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION RAIN GAUGES 1996-07-04 to 1996-08-11

N: 53.99 S: 53.99 E: -105.12 W: -105.12

ASCII
BOREAS HYD-08 Throughfall Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION RAIN GAUGES 1994-06-24 to 1996-08-11

N: 55.88 S: 53.99 E: -98.15 W: -105.12

ASCII
BOREAS HYD-09 Hourly and Daily Radar Rainfall Maps for the Southern Study Area 1 WEATHER STATIONS CBR 1994-05-13 to 1994-09-23

N: 54.27 S: 53.51 E: -104.31 W: -106.29

Binary
BOREAS HYD-09 Streamflow Data 1 STREAMFLOW STATION STREAM GAUGES 1994-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 55.92 S: 53.86 E: -98.38 W: -104.82

ASCII
BOREAS Level-0 AOCI Imagery: Digital Counts in BIL Format 1 NASA ER-2 AOCI 1994-07-21 to 1994-07-21

N: 54.46 S: 52.98 E: -104.93 W: -105.91

Binary
BOREAS Level-0 TIMS Imagery: Digital Counts in BIL Format 1 C-130 TIMS 1994-04-16 to 1994-09-17

N: 56.25 S: 53.42 E: -97.23 W: -106.32

Binary
BOREAS Prince Albert National Park Forest Cover Data in Vector Format 1 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS DIGITIZER 1978-01-01 to 1994-12-31

N: 54.33 S: 53.56 E: -105.99 W: -106.8

multiple
BOREAS Regional Soils Data in Raster Format and AEAC Projection 1 MAPS DIGITIZER 1991-01-01 to 1991-12-31

N: 59.98 S: 50.09 E: -93.5 W: -111

Binary
BOREAS RSS-01 PARABOLA SSA Surface Reflectance and Transmittance Data 1 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS PARABOLA 1994-04-16 to 1996-07-30

N: 53.99 S: 53.63 E: -104.69 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS RSS-02 Extracted Reflectance Factors Derived from ASAS Imagery 1 C-130 ASAS 1994-05-24 to 1996-07-20

N: 53.99 S: 53.24 E: -104.62 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS RSS-03 Imagery and Snapshots from a Helicopter-Mounted Video Camera 2 HELICOPTER VIDEO CAMERA 1994-05-31 to 1994-09-16

N: 56.0034 S: 53.6289 E: -97.4857 W: -106.198

JPEG
BOREAS RSS-03 Reflectance Measured from a Helicopter-Mounted Barnes MMR 1 HELICOPTER MMR 1994-05-24 to 1994-09-19

N: 55.97 S: 53.59 E: -97.34 W: -106.2

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BOREAS RSS-03 Reflectance Measured from a Helicopter-Mounted SE-590 1 HELICOPTER SPECTRORADIOMETERS 1994-05-31 to 1994-09-16

N: 56 S: 53.59 E: -97.34 W: -106.2

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Biosphere Data Tools

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TESViS The Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services Global Subsets Tool provides on-demand, customized subsets of several terrestrial ecology data products. Visualization, Subsetting
VEDA NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities. Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing
Vertex Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, Subsetting
Worldview Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events
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