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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
LBA-ECO ND-02 Secondary Forest Tree Heights and Diameters, Para, Brazil: 1999-2005 1 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, STEEL MEASURING TAPE 1999-11-01 to 2005-07-31

N: -2.983 S: -2.983 E: -47.516 W: -47.516

CSV
NACP Regional: Gridded 1-deg Observation Data and Biosphere and Inverse Model Outputs 1 Terra, Aqua MODIS 1990-01-01 to 2007-12-31

N: 84 S: 10 E: -50 W: -170

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Vegetation Structure of Kataba Forest, Zambia, Wet Season 2000 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, DENSIOMETERS 2000-02-15 to 2000-03-15

N: -15.4383 S: -15.4383 E: 23.2533 W: 23.2533

CSV
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
ABoVE: TVPRM Simulated Net Ecosystem Exchange, Alaskan North Slope, 2008-2017 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, OCO-2, COMPUTERS, SATELLITES TEMPERATURE SENSORS, THERMOMETERS, OCO SPECTROMETERS, Computer, MODIS 2008-01-01 to 2017-12-31

N: 77.2626 S: 56.0895 E: -128.592 W: -177.469

netCDF-4 classic
JERS-1 Level 1 Product 1 JERS-1 SAR 1992-05-20 to 1998-10-11

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

ABoVE: Dall Sheep Lamb Recruitment and Climate Data, Alaska and NW Canada, 2000-2015 1 Airplane, SATELLITES, FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, MODIS 2000-01-01 to 2015-12-31

N: 69.7074 S: 59.5978 E: -123.547 W: -163.281

multiple
Arctic Vegetation Plots at Frost Boil Sites, North Slope, Alaska, 2000-2006 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS 2000-08-16 to 2006-07-30

N: 70.3811 S: 69.1469 E: -147.991 W: -148.994

CSV
BOREAS RSS-07 Regional LAI and FPAR Images From Ten-Day AVHRR-LAC Composites 1 NOAA-11 AVHRR 1994-04-09 to 1994-09-10

N: 61.01 S: 48.83 E: -93.29 W: -115.41

Binary
BOREAS TGB-08 Photosynthetic Rate Data over the SSA-OBS and the SSA-OJP 1 PHOTOSYNTHESIS CHAMBER, FIELD INVESTIGATION LICOR GAS EXCHANGE SYSTEM, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1994-05-24 to 1994-09-19

N: 53.99 S: 53.92 E: -104.69 W: -105.12

ASCII
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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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