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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 Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Data Format
CMS: LiDAR-derived Aboveground Biomass, Canopy Height and Cover for Maryland, 2011 Airplane LIDAR 2011-01-01 to 2011-12-31 GeoTIFF
CMS: LiDAR-derived Biomass, Canopy Height and Cover, Sonoma County, California, 2013 Airplane, COMPUTERS, MODELS LIDAR, Computer 2013-09-01 to 2013-12-31 GeoTIFF
CMS: LiDAR-derived Canopy Height, Elevation for Sites in Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2014 Airplane LIDAR 2014-10-18 to 2014-11-30 GeoTIFF
CMS: LiDAR-derived Estimates of Aboveground Biomass at Four Forested Sites, USA ALOS LIDAR 2011-01-01 to 2011-12-31 GeoTIFF
CMS: LiDAR-derived Tree Canopy Cover for States in the Northeast USA MODELS, Airplane Computer, AIRBORNE LASER SCANNER, CAMERAS 2008-01-01 to 2014-08-30 MARYLAND, DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GeoTIFF
CMS: Mangrove Canopy Characteristics and Land Cover Change, Tanzania, 1990-2014 LANDSAT, MODELS Polarimetric Radar, Computer 1990-01-01 to 2014-12-31 GeoTIFF
CMS: Mangrove Canopy Height Estimates from Remote Imagery, Zambezi Delta, Mozambique Airplane, SPACE SHUTTLES, WORLDVIEW-2, TSX AIRBORNE LASER SCANNER, SRTM, SAR 2011-10-14 to 2014-05-06 GeoTIFF
CMS: Mangrove Canopy Height from High-resolution Stereo Image Pairs, Mozambique, 2012 WORLDVIEW-1 2012-09-01 to 2012-09-30 GeoTIFF
CMS: Mangrove Forest Cover Extent and Change across Major River Deltas, 2000-2016 LANDSAT-5, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-8, Sentinel-1A, STS-99 TM, ETM+, OLI, SENTINEL-1 C-SAR, SRTM 2000-01-01 to 2016-12-31 MOZAMBIQUE, JAMAICA, GABON, EQUATORIAL, TANZANIA GeoTIFF
CMS: Modeled Net Ecosystem Exchange at 3-hourly Time Steps, 2004-2010 MODELS Computer 2004-01-01 to 2010-12-31 netCDF-4 classic
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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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