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Biosphere Data Access and Tools

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
Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L4 Carbon Ancillary Biome Parameter Look Up Table V001 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2015-01-31 to Present

N: 86.4 S: -86.4 E: 180 W: -180

CSV
Land Use and Cover Maps from Landsat, Mawas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, 1994-2019 1 LANDSAT-8, MODELS, LANDSAT-5 OLI, Computer, TM 1994-01-01 to 2019-12-31

N: -2.16208 S: -2.56094 E: 114.648 W: 114.356

GeoTIFF
ABoVE: Landsat-derived Annual Dominant Land Cover in Boreal North America, 1986-2020 1 COMPUTERS, LANDSAT-5, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-8 Computer, TM, ETM+, OLI 1986-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 71.0677 S: 41.2276 E: -50.1766 W: -166.685

COG
Arctic Vegetation Plots in Flux Tower Footprints, North Slope, Alaska, 2014 1 FIELD SURVEYS, FIELD INVESTIGATION SOIL SAMPLER, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 2014-07-18 to 2014-07-31

N: 71.325 S: 68.4851 E: -155.747 W: -157.414

CSV
BOREAS SERM Forest Fire Chronology of Saskatchewan in Vector Format 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION DIGITIZER, GPS 1945-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 60 S: 49 E: -101.6 W: -110

multiple
Carbon Stocks of Individual Trees in African Drylands: Allometry and Output Data 1 MODELS Computer 2002-11-01 to 2021-03-31

N: 24.2 S: 9.4 E: 42.31 W: -18.2

multiple
Disturbance History and Forest Biomass from Landsat for Six US Sites, 1985-2014 1 FIELD SURVEYS, LANDSAT STEEL MEASURING TAPE, LIDAR 1984-01-01 to 2014-12-31

N: 48.2886 S: 32.2654 E: -68.4809 W: -123.235

netCDF-4 classic
ISLSCP II GIMMS Monthly NDVI, 1981-2002 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, NOAA-14, Terra LICOR LEAF AREA METER, STEEL MEASURING TAPE, AVHRR, MODIS 1981-07-01 to 2002-12-31

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

Shapefile
LBA-ECO LC-07 Validation Overflight for Amazon Mosaics, Video, 1999 1 Airplane VIDEO CAMERA 1999-06-03 to 1999-06-21

N: 4 S: -14.5042 E: -44 W: -68

multiple
SAFARI 2000 LAI and FPAR Measurements at Sua Pan, Botswana, Dry Season 2000 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION SUNFLECK CEPTOMETER, LICOR LEAF AREA METER 2000-08-20 to 2000-08-28

N: -20.5168 S: -20.5259 E: 26.0394 W: 26.0297

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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