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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
Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Cropland Extent-Product 2015 Validation 30 m V001 001 LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-5, Sentinel-2A OLI, ETM+, TM, Sentinel-2 MSI 2008-01-01 to 2016-12-31

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

90 Meters x 90 Meters Shapefile
Global Forest Aboveground Carbon Stocks and Fluxes from GEDI and ICESat-2, 2018-2021 1 ICESat-2, ISS ATLAS, GEDI 2018-10-01 to 2021-10-01

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

COG
Global Forest Ecosystem Structure and Function Data For Carbon Balance Research 1 NOAA-14 AVHRR 1897-01-01 to 2006-12-31

N: 67.36 S: -42.87 E: 172.75 W: -159.5

Shapefile
Global Gridded 1-km Annual Soil Respiration and Uncertainty Derived from SRDB V3 1 MODELS Computer 1963-01-01 to 2011-12-31

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

GeoTIFF
Global High-Resolution Estimates of SIF from Fused SCIAMACHY and GOME-2, V2 2 METOP-A GOME-2, SCIAMACHY 2003-01-01 to 2017-12-31

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

netCDF-4
Global Human Modification of Terrestrial Systems 1.0 MODELS Computer 2016-01-01 to 2016-12-31

N: 83.64 S: -60 E: 180 W: -180

30 Decimal Degrees x 30 Decimal Degrees GeoTIFF, PDF, PNG, WMS
Global Land Cover Mapping and Estimation Yearly 30 m V001 001 LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-5 OLI, ETM+, TM 2001-07-01 to 2019-07-01

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

30 Meters x 30 Meters GeoTIFF
Global Leaf Area Index from Field Measurements, 1932-2000 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION LICOR LEAF AREA METER 1932-01-01 to 2000-12-31

N: 71.3 S: -54.5 E: 172.75 W: -156.67

Text File
Global Man-made Impervious Surface (GMIS) Dataset From Landsat 1.0 MODELS, LANDSAT Computer, TM, ETM+ 2010-01-01 to 2010-12-31

N: 82.78837 S: -58.349605 E: 180 W: -180

GeoTIFF, PDF, PNG, WMS
Global Mangrove Distribution, Aboveground Biomass, and Canopy Height 1.3 ICESat, FIELD SURVEYS, STS-99 GLAS, Laser_RF, CLINOMETERS, SRTM 2000-01-01 to 2014-08-03

N: 31.0001 S: -39.0001 E: 180 W: -180

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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
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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