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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 LC-05 Biomass and Soil Properties of Fragmented Forests, Amazonas, Brazil 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1987-01-01 to 2001-05-05

N: -2.333 S: -2.333 E: -60.064 W: -60.064

CSV
Methane Fluxes from Shorelines and Differing Surfaces, Big Trail Lake, Alaska, 2019 1 FIELD SURVEYS GAS SENSORS 2019-07-04 to 2019-12-14

N: 64.9208 S: 64.9171 E: -147.818 W: -147.825

CSV
SAFARI 2000 Emissions Estimates, MODIS Burned Area Product, Dry Season 2000 1 Terra MODIS 2000-08-31 to 2000-09-30

N: 0.3389 S: -34.1425 E: 46.6473 W: 9.6738

Shapefile
Vegetation Species Data (FIFE) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1984-05-07 to 1989-08-18

N: 39.12 S: 38.98 E: -96.45 W: -96.61

multiple
NACP Soil Organic Matter of Burned Boreal Black Spruce Forests, Alaska, 2009-2011 1 FIELD SURVEYS 2009-08-01 to 2011-08-02

N: 65.7019 S: 63.8201 E: -141.418 W: -149.193

CSV
Arctic Vegetation Plots at Imnavait Creek, Alaska, 1984-1985 1 FIELD SURVEYS, LABORATORY, FIELD INVESTIGATION SOIL SAMPLER, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, LICOR PLANT CANOPY ANALYZER, SPECTROMETERS, PROBES 1984-08-01 to 1985-09-01

N: 68.625 S: 68.6 E: -149.23 W: -149.325

CSV
Aboveground Biomass from SAR, Great Slave Lake Region, NWT, 2019 1 ALOS-2, G-III L-SAR, UAVSAR 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31

N: 62.9107 S: 60.6333 E: -112.286 W: -118.171

COG
BOREAS Follow-On DSP-09 Saskatchewan Raster Forest Fire Chronology, 1945-1996 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION DIGITIZER, GPS 1945-01-01 to 1997-01-01

N: 60 S: 48 E: -90 W: -111

multiple
GEWEX SRB Integrated Product (Rel-4) Shortwave 3-Hourly Fluxes 1 SATELLITES RADIOMETERS 1983-07-01 to 2017-06-30 NetCDF-4
BOREAS TE-12 SSA Water Potential Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, OSMOMETERS 1993-08-04 to 1994-09-14

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

ASCII
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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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