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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
NPP Tropical Forest: San Carlos de Rio Negro, Venezuela, 1975-1984, R1 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION BALANCE, STEEL MEASURING TAPE, CORING DEVICES, QUADRATS 1950-01-01 to 1984-12-31

N: 1.93 S: 1.93 E: -67.05 W: -67.05

Text File
NPP Tropical Forest: San Eusebio, Venezuela, 1973-1974, R1 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION BALANCE, STEEL MEASURING TAPE, CORING DEVICES, QUADRATS 1915-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 8.62 S: 8.62 E: -71.35 W: -71.35

Text File
NPP Tundra: Point Barrow, Alaska, 1970-1972, R1 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION QUADRATS, CORING DEVICES, STEEL MEASURING TAPE, BALANCE 1921-01-01 to 1990-12-31

N: 71.3 S: 71.3 E: -156.67 W: -156.67

multiple
NPP Tundra: Toolik Lake, Alaska, 1982, R1 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION QUADRATS, CORING DEVICES, STEEL MEASURING TAPE, BALANCE 1982-01-01 to 1982-12-31

N: 68.63 S: 68.45 E: -149.37 W: -149.72

CSV
Ocean Surface pCO2 and Air-Sea CO2 Flux in the Northern Gulf of America, 2006-2010 1 Aqua MODIS 2006-01-01 to 2011-01-01

N: 32 S: 25 E: -86 W: -96

netCDF-4 classic
OCO-2 Level 2 bias-corrected solar-induced fluorescence and other select fields from the IMAP-DOAS algorithm aggregated as daily files, Retrospective processing V10r (OCO2_L2_Lite_SIF) at GES DISC 10r OCO-2 OCO-2 2014-09-06 to 2022-02-28

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

OCO-2 Level 2 bias-corrected solar-induced fluorescence and other select fields from the IMAP-DOAS algorithm aggregated as daily files, Retrospective processing V11.2r (OCO2_L2_Lite_SIF) at GES DISC 11.2r OCO-2 OCO-2 2014-09-01 to Present

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

OCO-2 Level 2 bias-corrected solar-induced fluorescence and other select fields from the IMAP-DOAS algorithm aggregated as daily files, Retrospective processing V11r (OCO2_L2_Lite_SIF) at GES DISC 11r OCO-2 OCO-2 2014-09-01 to 2024-03-31

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

OCO-2 Level 2 bias-corrected solar-induced fluorescence and other select fields from the IMAP-DOAS algorithm, Forward processing V11.2 (OCO2_L2_Fwd_SIF_11.2) 11.2 OCO-2 OCO-2 2014-09-01 to Present

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

OrbView-2 SeaWiFS Level-2 Regional Global Area Coverage (GAC) Inherent Optical Properties (IOP) Data, version 2022.0 2022.0 OrbView-2 SeaWiFS 1997-09-04 to 2010-12-11

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

netCDF-4
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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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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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