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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
BOREAS TE-08 Aspen Bark Chemistry Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, SPECTROPHOTOMETERS 1994-05-24 to 1994-09-08

N: 53.71 S: 53.63 E: -105.32 W: -106.2

ASCII
CMS: Forest Aboveground Biomass from FIA Plots across the Conterminous USA, 2009-2019 1 FIELD SURVEYS Computer 2009-01-01 to 2019-12-31

N: 49.5076 S: 24.3193 E: -66.6917 W: -125.009

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Forest Aboveground Biomass for Maryland, USA 1 COMPUTERS Computer 1984-01-01 to 2023-12-31

N: 39.81 S: 37.83 E: -75.05 W: -79.52

GeoTIFF
Aboveground Biomass Change for Amazon Basin, Mexico, and Pantropical Belt, 2003-2016 1 ICESat, MODELS, Aqua, Terra GLAS, Computer, MODIS 2003-01-01 to 2016-12-31

N: 40 S: -30 E: 180 W: -180

GeoTIFF
LBA-ECO LC-07 Amazon Floodplain Lake Chlorophyll from MODIS, Para, Brazil: 2002-2003 1 Terra MODIS 2002-04-01 to 2003-12-31

N: -1 S: -3.00025 E: -52.9995 W: -57

GeoTIFF
BOREAS Daedalus TMS Level-0 Imagery: Digital Counts in BIL Format 1 NASA ER-2 TMS 1994-09-16 to 1994-09-17

N: 56.25 S: 53.42 E: -97.23 W: -106.32

BIL
BOREAS TE-11 Surface Meteorological Data 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS NET RADIOMETERS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, BAROMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, PYRANOMETERS, INFRARED THERMOMETERS, THERMOCOUPLES, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR 1994-01-01 to 1994-12-31

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

CSV
CMS: Mangrove Canopy Characteristics and Land Cover Change, Tanzania, 1990-2014 1 LANDSAT, MODELS Polarimetric Radar, Computer 1990-01-01 to 2014-12-31

N: -7.50833 S: -8.03522 E: 39.4972 W: 39.1924

GeoTIFF
GEDI L4A Footprint Level Aboveground Biomass Density, Version 1 1 MODELS, ISS Computer, GEDI 2019-04-18 to 2020-09-03

N: 53.994 S: -54.1988 E: 180 W: -180

binary
LBA Regional Hydrographic Data, 1-Degree, Release 2.2 (Cogley) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1970-01-01 to 1990-01-01

N: 10 S: -25 E: -30 W: -85

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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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