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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
SNF NS001-TMS Canopy Reflectance 1983-84 1 C-130 TMS 1983-07-13 to 1984-06-28

N: 48.1697 S: 47.6575 E: -91.7658 W: -92.5058

ASCII
Fluxnet: Archived Website Including Site and Investigator Information 1 GROUND STATIONS CARBON ANALYZERS 1991-01-01 to 2016-12-31

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

multiple
Forest Preservation Ranking and Vertebrate Species Richness, Western USA, 2020-2099 1 CLM-LSM Computer 2001-01-01 to 2099-12-31

N: 52.015 S: 27.71 E: -100.502 W: -132.503

multiple
Land Cover and Vegetation Map Collection for Seward Peninsula, Alaska 1 COMPUTERS, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS, LANDSAT Computer, CAMERAS, MSS 1976-06-01 to 1999-09-01

N: 66.9519 S: 63.9658 E: -159.19 W: -168.542

multiple
LBA-ECO ND-01 Forest and Pasture Soil and Grass Analyses, Rondonia, Brazil: 2003-2004 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2003-05-01 to 2004-05-31

N: -8 S: -15 E: -60 W: -65

CSV
NACP North American 8-km Net Ecosystem Exchange and Component Fluxes, 2004 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2004-01-01 to 2004-12-31

N: 90 S: 2.736 E: -34.113 W: -179.553

Binary
SMAPVEX16 Manitoba In Situ Vegetation Data V001 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS STEEL MEASURING TAPE 2016-06-13 to 2016-07-21

N: 49.761171 S: 49.384076 E: -97.756264 W: -98.098417

CSV, Geodatabase, KMZ
BOREAS Follow-On DSP-10 Regridded NDVI Maps for 1994 1 NOAA-11 AVHRR 1994-01-01 to 1995-01-01

N: 60 S: 48 E: -90 W: -111

BMP
BOREAS TE-19 Ecosystem Carbon Balance Model 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1968-01-01 to 1995-12-31

N: 60 S: 50 E: -94 W: -111

multiple
RADARSAT-1 Level 1 Product 1 RADARSAT-1 SAR 1996-02-01 to 2009-03-17

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

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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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