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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
SAR Subsets for Selected Field Sites, 2007-2010 1 ALOS PALSAR 2007-06-05 to 2010-12-14

N: 78.9459 S: -11.3224 E: -28.8805 W: -150.714

Shapefile
NACP: Forest Carbon Stocks, Fluxes and Productivity Estimates, Western USA, 1979-2099 1 MODELS Computer 1979-01-01 to 2099-12-31

N: 49.0351 S: 31.1875 E: -101.961 W: -124.812

netCDF-4 classic
Sentinel-1 Interferograms 1 Sentinel-1A, Sentinel-1B SENTINEL-1A C-Band SAR, SENTINEL-1B C-Band SAR 2014-10-15 to 2023-05-28

N: 20.31149 S: 18.84486 E: -154.672 W: -156.4174

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N: 37.00386 S: 30.13852 E: -112.4875 W: -114.0486

,

N: 55.19449 S: 53.97382 E: -161.2068 W: -165.6942

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N: 35.68992 S: 34.68611 E: -119.0944 W: -120.6429

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N: 32.6 S: 31.94 E: -103.6 W: -104.86

ABoVE: Ecosystem Map, Great Slave Lake Area, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1997-2011 1 MODELS, LANDSAT-5, WORLDVIEW-2, ALOS Computer, MSS, TM, WV110, PALSAR 1997-09-25 to 2011-09-14

N: 65.1494 S: 58.5141 E: -109.463 W: -123.036

multiple
Arctic Vegetation Plots at Nome, Alaska, 1951 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS BALANCE, PH METERS 1951-07-30 to 1951-08-02

N: 64.629 S: 64.629 E: -165.264 W: -165.264

CSV
BOREAS RSS-08 BIOME-BGC SSA Simulations of Annual Water and Carbon Fluxes 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1994-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 60 S: 49 E: -89 W: -111

Binary
BOREAS TGB-12 Soil Carbon Site Information 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1993-08-01 to 1994-08-31

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

ASCII
Delta-X: Sonar Bathymetry Survey of Channels, MRD, Louisiana, 2021 1 FIELD SURVEYS SONAR 2021-03-25 to 2021-09-25

N: 29.7039 S: 29.103 E: -90.4013 W: -91.4728

multiple
Helicopter MMR Reflectance Data (SNF) 1 HELICOPTER MMR 1986-01-01 to 1986-12-31

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

ASCII
SHIFT: Vegetation Plot Photos, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2022 1 FIELD SURVEYS CAMERA 2022-02-23 to 2022-09-18

N: 34.7445 S: 34.3979 E: -119.531 W: -120.492

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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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