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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 Data Tools

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Tool Description Services
AppEEARS The The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers users a simple and efficient way to perform data access and transformation processes. Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Customization, Downloading, Visualization
Biomass Earthdata Dashboard Observe global forest biomass harmonization activity with the Biomass Earthdata Dashboard. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
CASEI The Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science Investigations (CASEI) is a comprehensive inventory of contextual information for NASA's Earth Science airborne and field campaigns. Search and Discovery, Cataloging
FIRMS The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity. Access, Visualization
OpenAltimetry OpenAltimetry is a map-based visualization tool for exploring surface elevation data across Earth over time. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
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
POPGRID Viewer POPGRID Viewer explores the intercomparison of population counts and settlement mapping from leading global data sources. Comparison
SDAT The Spatial Data Access Tool (SDAT) is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards-based web application to visualize and download spatial data in various user-selected spatial/temporal extents, file formats, and projections. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
TESViS The Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services Global Subsets Tool provides on-demand, customized subsets of several terrestrial ecology data products. Visualization
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
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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

Datasets

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Dataset Size Start Date End Date N Lat S Lat E long W Long
ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 Level 1 ScanSAR Product 90.00 -90.00 180.00 -180.00
SENTINEL-1A_SLC 90.00 -90.00 180.00 -180.00
SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_METADATA_GRD_MEDIUM_RES 90.00 -90.00 180.00 -180.00
SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_METADATA_GRD_HIGH_RES 90.00 -90.00 180.00 -180.00
SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_METADATA_GRD_FULL_RES 90.00 -90.00 180.00 -180.00
SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_GRD_MEDIUM_RES 90.00 -90.00 180.00 -180.00
SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_GRD_HIGH_RES 90.00 -90.00 180.00 -180.00
SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_GRD_FULL_RES 90.00 -90.00 180.00 -180.00
SENTINEL-1A_RAW 90.00 -90.00 180.00 -180.00
SENTINEL-1A_OCN 90.00 -90.00 180.00 -180.00
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