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ABoVE: Peak Greenness for Canadian Boreal Forest from Landsat 5 TM Imagery, 1984-2011 1 LANDSAT-5 TM 1970-01-01 to 2014-12-31

N: 63.4406 S: 45.3217 E: -53.9102 W: -124.474

multiple
ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Field Site Data, Anaktuvuk River Fire Area, 2008-2017 1 FIELD SURVEYS SOIL DEPTH PROBE, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 2008-07-03 to 2017-07-23

N: 69.359 S: 69.0189 E: -150.034 W: -151.176

CSV
ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Vegetation Community and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2017 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE 2015-07-13 to 2017-08-10

N: 62.5827 S: 60.5236 E: -111.367 W: -117.379

multiple
ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Vegetation Community and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2018 1 FIELD SURVEYS SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, STEEL MEASURING TAPE 2018-08-12 to 2018-08-22

N: 62.5658 S: 60.4524 E: -113.42 W: -117.425

CSV
ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Vegetation Community and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2019 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE, SOIL DEPTH PROBE 2018-08-16 to 2019-09-05

N: 62.5658 S: 60.9206 E: -113.016 W: -117.425

CSV
ABoVE: River Ice Breakup and Freeze-up Stages, Yukon River Basin, Alaska, 1972-2016 1 LANDSAT, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-8 MSS, TM, ETM+, OLI 1972-11-04 to 2016-11-30

N: 66.3594 S: 62.9036 E: -142.986 W: -160.065

CSV
ABoVE: Spatial Estimates of Carbon Combustion from Wildfires across SK, Canada, 2015 1 MODELS Computer 2015-04-06 to 2015-08-11

N: 61.2389 S: 51.1943 E: -100.168 W: -116.055

GeoTIFF
ABoVE: Subsistence Resource Use Areas of Interior Alaskan Communities, 2011-2017 1 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 2011-01-01 to 2017-12-31

N: 70.1477 S: 51.7133 E: -131.525 W: -176.646

Shapefile
ABoVE: Synthesis of Burned and Unburned Forest Site Data, AK and Canada, 1983-2016 1 MODELS, FIELD INVESTIGATION Computer, PROBES, SOIL SAMPLER 1983-01-01 to 2016-08-08

N: 67.2297 S: 53.1911 E: -88.612 W: -150.902

CSV
ABoVE: Synthesis of Post-Fire Regeneration Across Boreal North America 1.1 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, Computer 1989-01-01 to 2018-12-31

N: 66.9617 S: 49.1156 E: -71.0133 W: -152.2

CSV
ABoVE: Wildfire Date of Burning within Fire Scars across Alaska and Canada, 2001-2019 1.1 COMPUTERS, SATELLITES Computer, MODIS 2001-01-01 to 2019-12-31

N: 70.1592 S: 41.7456 E: -53.8267 W: -178.841

Shapefile
Aboveground Biomass, Landcover, and Degradation, Kalimantan Forests, Indonesia, 2014 1 FIELD SURVEYS, Airplane, MODELS STEEL MEASURING TAPE, LIDAR, Computer 2014-10-18 to 2014-11-30

N: 8 S: -5 E: 120 W: 108

multiple
ACCLIP WB-57 Aircraft In-Situ Aerosol Data 1 NASA WB-57F PALMS-NG, DMT SP2, UHSAS, POPS 2022-07-14 to 2022-09-14 ICARTT
ACCLIP WB-57 Aircraft Merge Data 1 NASA WB-57F Computer 2022-07-16 to 2022-09-14

N: 61.5 S: 16.6 E: 180 W: -180

ICARTT
ACCLIP WB-57 Aircraft Model Data 1 GEOS, NASA WB-57F Computer, MMS 2022-07-14 to 2022-09-14 ICARTT
Africa Climate Mobility Initiative (ACMI): Bilateral Migration Projections 1.00 MODELS Computer 2015-01-01 to 2050-12-31

N: 37.21 S: -34.51 E: 51.27 W: -17.33

CSV
Africa Climate Mobility Initiative (ACMI): Internal Migration Projections 1.00 MODELS Computer 2020-01-01 to 2050-12-31

N: 37.59 S: -47.01 E: 51.42 W: -25.38

Geodatabase, Geopackage
Alaska's Changing YK Delta: Knowledge Exchange between Elders and Geoscientists, 2018 1 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 2018-11-14 to 2018-11-16

N: 63.4333 S: 59.5816 E: -159.478 W: -166.553

PDF
Altimeter Corrected Elevations, Version 2 (ACE2) 2.0 STS-99 SRTM 1994-01-01 to 2005-12-31

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

GeoTIFF, PDF, PNG
An integrated Wildfire Event Dataset (iWED), Version 1, Continental U.S., 1992-2021 1 COMPUTERS Computer 1992-01-01 to 2021-12-31

N: 71.1503 S: 25 E: -67.6 W: -178.821

CSV
Annual Burned Area from Landsat, Mawas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, 1997-2015 1 LANDSAT ETM+, TM, OLI 1997-01-01 to 2015-12-31

N: -2.21458 S: -2.50241 E: 114.609 W: 114.39

Shapefile
Annual Global High-Resolution Extreme Heat Estimates (GEHE), 1983-2016 1.00 MODELS Computer 1983-01-01 to 2016-12-31

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

GeoTIFF
Annual Land Use and Urban Land Cover: Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa, 2016-2020 1 LANDSAT, Sentinel-1A, Sentinel-2A ETM+, OLI, SENTINEL-1 C-SAR, Sentinel-2 MSI 2016-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 16.2061 S: -35.3369 E: 49.6875 W: 2.5725

COG
Annual PM2.5 Concentrations for Countries and Urban Areas, 1998-2016 1.00 MODELS, Aqua, Terra, OrbView-2 Computer, MODIS, MISR, SeaWiFS 1998-01-01 to 2016-12-31

N: 69.85 S: -54.85 E: 180 W: -180

0.1 Decimal Degrees x 0.1 Decimal Degrees Shapefile, Excel
Annual Summary of Artificial Light At Night from VIIRS/S-NPP at CONUS County and Census Tract V1 (ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS) at GES DISC 1 Suomi-NPP VIIRS 2012-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 49.99792 S: 20.00208 E: -60.00208 W: -129.9979

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Human Dimensions Data Tools

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Panoply Panoply is a cross-platform application that plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets. Visualization, Customization, Reformatting, Subsetting, Comparison
POWER DAV The POWER project’s Data Access Viewer (DAV) is an interactive web-mapping application that provides access to NASA’s customized solar and meteorological data catalog. Analysis, Downloading, Subsetting, Visualization
POWER PRUVE PRUVE is an online validation tool created by NASA's Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project that compares surface satellite-based and assimilation data products to in-situ surface site measurements. Analysis, Visualization
RTC Stack Processor The radiometric terrain correction (RTC) stack processor tool facilitates time-series analysis of such phenomena as flooding events, deforestation, or glacier retreat. Analysis, Processing, Search and Discovery, Visualization
SEDAC Map Viewer With the SEDAC Map Viewer, users can view up to 4 SEDAC map layers, either as four separately synched maps or as overlays in a single map. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
SOTO State of the Ocean (SOTO) is an interactive web-based tool that generates informative maps, animations, and plots that communicate and prove the discovery and analysis of the state of the oceans. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
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
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