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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
AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parameters, & QC EASE-Grids V002 2 Aqua AMSR-E 2002-06-19 to 2011-10-03

N: 89.24 S: -89.24 E: 180 W: -180

25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers HDF-EOS2
NPP Grassland: Jornada, USA, 1970-1972, R1 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION QUADRATS, CORING DEVICES, BALANCE 1954-01-01 to 1992-12-31

N: 32.6 S: 32.6 E: -106.85 W: -106.85

Text File
NPP Grassland: Osage, USA, 1970-1972, R1 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION QUADRATS, CORING DEVICES, BALANCE 1898-01-01 to 1994-12-31

N: 36.95 S: 36.95 E: -96.55 W: -96.55

Text File
VIIRS/JPSS1 Active Fires 6-Min L2 Swath 375m NRT 2 NOAA-20 VIIRS 2020-07-15

N: 80 S: -80 E: 180 W: -180

375 Meters x 375 Meters NetCDF4
NPP Tropical Forest: Pasoh, Malaysia, 1971-1973, R1 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION QUADRATS, CORING DEVICES, BALANCE, STEEL MEASURING TAPE 1891-01-01 to 1990-12-31

N: 2.98 S: 2.98 E: 102.31 W: 102.31

Text File
GEDI L4A Footprint Level Aboveground Biomass Density, Version 2 2 ISS, COMPUTERS GEDI, Computer 2019-04-17 to 2021-08-05

N: 53.9933 S: -52.2046 E: 180 W: -180

binary
NPP Grassland: Hays, USA, 1970, R1 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION QUADRATS, CORING DEVICES, BALANCE 1867-01-01 to 1994-12-31

N: 38.87 S: 38.87 E: -99.38 W: -99.38

Text File
PhenoCam Dataset v2.0: Digital Camera Imagery from the PhenoCam Network, 2000-2018 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION CAMERA 1999-11-16 to 2018-12-31

N: 71.28 S: -22.97 E: 119.22 W: -158.15

ASCII, Binary
Delta-X: Aboveground Vegetation Structure, Herbaceous Wetlands, MRD, LA, USA, V2 2 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, SURVEYING TOOLS 2021-03-21 to 2021-08-27

N: 29.5101 S: 29.1714 E: -90.8219 W: -91.8852

CSV
Pre-Delta-X: UAVSAR Georeferenced Channel Maps, Atchafalaya Basin, LA, USA, 2016, V2 2 G-III UAVSAR 2016-10-16 to 2016-10-17

N: 29.7584 S: 29.3561 E: -91.0575 W: -91.622

GeoTIFF
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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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