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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
Forest Inventories at Burned and Unburned Tropical Forest Sites, Acre, Brazil, 2014 FIELD SURVEYS STEEL MEASURING TAPE 2014-07-01 to 2014-08-31 CSV
Forest Inventory and Biophysical Measurements, Brazilian Amazon, 2009-2018 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 2009-01-01 to 2018-12-31 BRAZIL multiple
Forest Preservation Ranking and Vertebrate Species Richness, Western USA, 2020-2099 CLM-LSM Computer 2001-01-01 to 2099-12-31 ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, IDAHO, NEVADA multiple
Forest Structure and Biomass Data, La Selva, Costa Rica: 2006 FIELD SURVEYS STEEL MEASURING TAPE, CLINOMETERS 2006-02-11 to 2006-02-23 multiple
Forest-BGC Model (OTTER) NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1990-01-01 to 1990-12-31 multiple
G-LiHT Canopy Height Model KML V001 G-LiHT Headwall, Riegl Airborne Lidar 2011-06-30 to Present PUERTO RICO, MEXICO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA KML
G-LiHT Canopy Height Model V001 G-LiHT Headwall, Riegl Airborne Lidar 2011-06-30 to Present PUERTO RICO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MEXICO GeoTIFF
G-LiHT Digital Surface Model V001 G-LiHT Headwall, Riegl Airborne Lidar 2011-06-30 to Present UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MEXICO, PUERTO RICO GeoTIFF
G-LiHT Metrics V001 G-LiHT Headwall, Riegl Airborne Lidar 2011-06-30 to Present PUERTO RICO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MEXICO GeoTIFF
GEDI L1B Geolocated Waveform Data Global Footprint Level V002 ISS GEDI 2019-04-04 to 2023-03-16, 2024-04-26 to Present GLOBAL LAND HDF5
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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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