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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 ND-04 Secondary Forest Recovery, Structure, and LAI, Central Amazonia, Brazil 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2000-09-12 to 2001-09-01

N: -2 S: -2.5716 E: -59 W: -60.03

CSV
NACP Site: Terrestrial Biosphere Model Output Data in Original Format 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1990-01-01 to 2007-12-31

N: 84 S: 10 E: -50 W: -170

Shapefile
BOREAS Follow-On FLX-01 NSA-OBS Derived Data - NEE, GEE, and Respiration 1 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES 1994-03-01 to 1999-01-01

N: 55.8801 S: 55.8801 E: -98.4814 W: -98.4814

CSV
PARABOLA Data (FIFE) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION PARABOLA 1987-06-06 to 1989-08-08

N: 39.1 S: 39.05 E: -96.5 W: -96.59

multiple
Seedling Canopy Chemistry, 1992-1993 (ACCP) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, CHN ANALYZERS, LICOR LEAF AREA METER, SPECTROPHOTOMETERS 1992-11-06 to 1993-03-15

N: 37.4015 S: 37.4015 E: -122.048 W: -122.048

ASCII
SnowEx20 Grand Mesa IOP QSI Lidar Snow Depth Data V001 1 AIRCRAFT LIDAR 2020-02-01 to 2020-02-02

N: 39.039456 S: 39.009209 E: -108.157747 W: -108.21092

1 Meters x 1 Meters GeoTIFF
ABoVE: Wolf Denning Phenology and Reproductive Success, Alaska and Canada, 2000-2017 1 FIELD SURVEYS, MODELS, Terra GPS, Computer, MODIS 2000-03-29 to 2017-08-31

N: 67.8362 S: 52.9705 E: -112.967 W: -154.581

CSV
Timber Measurements (OTTER) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION CLINOMETERS, STEEL MEASURING TAPE, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1990-08-01 to 1990-08-01

N: 45.05 S: 44.29 E: -121.33 W: -123.92

multiple
CMS: Daily Gross Primary Productivity over CONUS from TROPOMI SIF, 2018-2021 1 Sentinel-5P TROPOMI 2018-02-15 to 2021-10-15

N: 50 S: 23.9975 E: -64.9993 W: -125.002

netCDF-4
SAFARI 2000 Hydrographic Data, 1-Deg, Release 2.2 (Cogley) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1970-01-01 to 1990-01-01

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

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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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