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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 Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
Net Radiation and Albedo from MODIS for Xingu River Basin, Brazil, 2000-2012 1 SATELLITES, COMPUTERS MODIS, Computer 2000-02-18 to 2012-11-16

N: -9.5717 S: -15.0697 E: -51.2324 W: -55.6935

netCDF-4 classic
Phenoregions For Monitoring Vegetation Responses to Climate Change 1 LANDSAT-7 TM 1982-01-01 to 1999-12-31

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

Text File
SiB3 Modeled Global 1-degree Hourly Biosphere-Atmosphere Carbon Flux, 1998-2006 1 LANDSAT-7 AVHRR 1998-01-01 to 2006-12-31

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

Shapefile
Arctic Vegetation Plots Legacy Project Barter Island and Point Barrow, Alaska, 1994 1 FIELD SURVEYS, FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, SOIL SAMPLER 1994-08-01 to 1994-08-11

N: 71.334 S: 70.1204 E: -143.597 W: -156.644

CSV
SENTINEL-1A_METADATA_SLC 1 Sentinel-1A C-SAR 2014-04-03 to Present

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

ABoVE: Landsat-derived Annual Dominant Land Cover Across ABoVE Core Domain, 1984-2014 1 MODELS, LANDSAT-5, LANDSAT-7 Computer, TM, ETM+ 1984-01-01 to 2014-12-31

N: 76.2257 S: 50.259 E: -98.974 W: -170.006

multiple
SE-590 Leaf Optical Prop. Data (FIFE) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION LICOR INTEGRATING SPHERE, SPECTRORADIOMETERS 1989-08-02 to 1989-08-07

N: 39.09 S: 38.98 E: -96.54 W: -96.55

multiple
Arctic Vegetation Plots in Burned and Unburned Tundra, Alaska, 2011-2012 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 2011-07-14 to 2012-07-30

N: 70.0887 S: 65.361 E: -146.645 W: -164.686

CSV
BOREAS TGB-12 Soil Carbon and Flux Data of NSA-MSA in Raster Format 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1937-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 59.34 S: 50.57 E: -94.08 W: -110.05

Binary
Carbon Pools across CONUS using the MaxEnt Model, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2016, and 2017 1 LANDSAT-5, SPACE SHUTTLES, ALOS, FIELD SURVEYS, Aqua, ALOS-2, LANDSAT-8, MODELS TM, SRTM, PALSAR, Computer, SURVEYING TOOLS, MODIS, PALSAR-2, OLI 2005-01-01 to 2017-12-31

N: 52.8561 S: 21.5875 E: -64.1285 W: -130.233

GeoTIFF
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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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