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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
LBA-ECO TG-08 Soil Gas Flux after Forest and Pasture Fertilization, Rondonia, Brazil 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, AUTOANALYZER, BALANCE, GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS, IRGA 1998-02-18 to 1999-03-10

N: -10.156 S: -10.156 E: -62.811 W: -62.811

CSV
Pre-LBA CABARE Mapped Land Surface and Vegetation Characteristics, Rondonia, Brazil 1 MAPS, LANDSAT DIGITIZER, TM 1978-01-01 to 1994-12-31

N: -8 S: -13 E: -60 W: -65

Text File
SAFARI 2000 Global Burned Area Map, 1-km, Southern Africa, 2000 1 SPOT-4 MULTI-SPECTRAL 2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31

N: 18 S: -35 E: 55 W: -18

Shapefile
SNF Site Characterization Data: C.Jarvis 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1984-05-10 to 1984-06-12

N: 48.1697 S: 47.6575 E: -91.7658 W: -92.5058

ASCII
BOREAS TE-12 SSA Shoot Geometry Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, MICROSCOPES, BALANCE 1993-08-04 to 1994-09-15

N: 53.99 S: 53.63 E: -104.62 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS TE-11 Leaf Gas Exchange Measurements 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, PHOTOSYNTHESIS CHAMBER HUMIDITY SENSORS, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, LICOR GAS EXCHANGE SYSTEM 1993-08-27 to 1994-08-19

N: 53.92 S: 53.92 E: -104.69 W: -104.69

ASCII
LVIS Classic L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation and Canopy Height Product V001 1 B-200, C-130, G-III, G-V LVIS 1998-03-20 to Present

N: 72 S: -3 E: 17 W: -168

ASCII
Delta-X: Delft3D Broad-Scale Sediment Model, Terrebonne Basin, MRD, Louisiana, USA 1 COMPUTERS Computer 2021-03-25 to 2021-08-28

N: 29.5522 S: 28.979 E: -90.1564 W: -91.107

multiple
Soil Gas Fluxes Using Soil Cores (FIFE) 1 LABORATORY, FIELD INVESTIGATION GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS, BALANCE, CORING DEVICES 1987-05-28 to 1987-06-28

N: 39.1 S: 39.03 E: -96.53 W: -96.6

multiple
SENTINEL-1B_METADATA_RAW 1 Sentinel-1B C-SAR 2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24

N: 90 S: -90 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
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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