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NASA biosphere data range from surface reflectance data useful for measuring the greenness of vegetation to measurements of nighttime lights that disrupt the behaviors of wildlife. Our datasets and tools help researchers translate these interconnected data points into actionable knowledge.

Biosphere Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
BOREAS RSS-17 Xylem Flux Density Measurements at the SSA-OBS Site 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION THERMOCOUPLES 1994-05-31 to 1994-09-28

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

ASCII
SENTINEL-1A_DUAL_POL_METADATA_GRD_HIGH_RES 1 Sentinel-1A C-SAR 2014-04-03 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

ABoVE: Landsat Tundra Greenness and Summer Air Temperatures, Arctic Tundra, 1985-2016 1 LANDSAT-5, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-8 TM, ETM+, OLI 1985-07-01 to 2016-08-31

N: 90 S: 31.49 E: 180 W: -180

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VEMAP 1: U.S. Potential Natural Vegetation 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1961-01-01 to 1990-12-31

N: 49 S: 25 E: -67 W: -124.5

multiple
Arctic Vegetation Plots for IBP Tundra Biome, Barrow, Alaska, 1972-2010 1 FIELD SURVEYS, FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, SOIL SAMPLER 1972-08-01 to 2010-08-01

N: 71.2997 S: 71.2882 E: -156.662 W: -156.711

CSV
CMS: Mangrove Canopy Height Estimates from Remote Imagery, Zambezi Delta, Mozambique 1 Airplane, SPACE SHUTTLES, WORLDVIEW-2, TSX AIRBORNE LASER SCANNER, SRTM, SAR 2011-10-14 to 2014-05-06

N: -18.6269 S: -18.915 E: 36.3389 W: 36.1186

GeoTIFF
BOREAS RSS-19 1994 Seasonal Understory Reflectance Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION SPECTRORADIOMETERS 1994-02-06 to 1994-09-16

N: 55.93 S: 53.8 E: -98.29 W: -105.12

ASCII
SAFARI 2000 Tree Ring Data, Mongu, Zambia, Dry Season 2000 1 LABORATORY MICROSCOPES 1953-01-01 to 2000-08-31

N: -15.1944 S: -15.4458 E: 23.3181 W: 23.2639

CSV
Canopy Chemistry (OTTER) 1 LABORATORY SUNFLECK CEPTOMETER, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, COLORIMETERS, LICOR LEAF AREA METER, SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, AUTOANALYZER 1989-08-23 to 1991-06-04

N: 45.06 S: 44.29 E: -121.33 W: -123.94

ASCII
Dendrometer, Soil, and Weather Observations, Arctic Tree Line, AK and NWT, 2016-2019 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, FIELD SURVEYS PYRANOMETERS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE, DENDROMETERS, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE 2016-06-07 to 2019-09-13

N: 68.7274 S: 67.9724 E: -133.531 W: -149.761

CSV
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VIIRS
Vegetation indices measure the amount of green vegetation over a given area and can be used to assess vegetation health. A commonly-used vegetation index is the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), which uses the difference between near-infrared (NIR) and red reflectance divided by their sum. NDVI values range from -1 to 1. Low values of NDVI generally correspond to barren areas of rock, sand, exposed soils, or snow, while higher NDVI values indicate greener vegetation, including forests, croplands, and wetlands.
VIIRS Vegetation Indices on Earthdata Search

Biosphere Data Tools

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Tool Description Services
STREAM STREAM is a rapid water quality monitoring tool that processes satellite imagery to create maps showing chlorophyll-a, Total Suspended Solids, and water clarity at 20-30 meter resolution. Processing
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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