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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
Aboveground Biomass, Landcover, and Degradation, Kalimantan Forests, Indonesia, 2014 1 FIELD SURVEYS, Airplane, MODELS STEEL MEASURING TAPE, LIDAR, Computer 2014-10-18 to 2014-11-30

N: 8 S: -5 E: 120 W: 108

multiple
ACT-America: Gridded Ensembles of Surface Biogenic Carbon Fluxes, 2003-2019 1.1 MODELS Computer 2003-01-01 to 2019-12-31

N: 70.5 S: 0.5 E: -24.5 W: -176

netCDF-4
ADEOS-I OCTS Level-2 Regional Inherent Optical Properties (IOP) Data, version 2022.0 2022.0 ADEOS-I OCTS 1996-10-31 to 1997-06-30

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
ADEOS-I OCTS Level-3 Global Binned Inherent Optical Properties (IOP) Data, version 2022.0 2022.0 ADEOS-I OCTS 1996-10-31 to 1997-06-30

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
ADEOS-I OCTS Level-3 Global Mapped Inherent Optical Properties (IOP) Data, version 2022.0 2022.0 ADEOS-I OCTS 1996-10-31 to 1997-06-30

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
AfriSAR: Aboveground Biomass for Lope, Mabounie, Mondah, and Rabi Sites, Gabon 1 FIELD SURVEYS, Airplane, B-200 STEEL MEASURING TAPE, LIDAR, LVIS 2016-02-01 to 2016-03-31

N: 0.611119 S: -1.94602 E: 11.6436 W: 9.30308

COG
AfriSAR: Canopy Cover and Vertical Profile Metrics Derived from LVIS, Gabon, 2016 1 B-200 LVIS 2016-02-20 to 2016-03-08

N: 0.701451 S: -2.29171 E: 12.0133 W: 8.7276

CSV
AfriSAR: Canopy Structure Derived from PolInSAR and Coherence TomoSAR NISAR tools 1 UAV UAVSAR 2016-02-25 to 2016-03-08

N: 0.61 S: -2.07788 E: 11.8642 W: 9.16944

GeoTIFF
AfriSAR: Gridded Forest Biomass and Canopy Metrics Derived from LVIS, Gabon, 2016 1 MODELS, B-200 Computer, LVIS 2016-02-20 to 2016-03-08

N: 0.631722 S: -2.29494 E: 12.0244 W: 9.17929

multiple
AfriSAR: Mondah Forest Tree Species, Biophysical, and Biomass Data, Gabon, 2016 1 FIELD SURVEYS, FIELD INVESTIGATION STEEL MEASURING TAPE, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, CLINOMETERS 2016-03-01 to 2016-03-23

N: 0.616939 S: 0.538705 E: 9.42251 W: 9.31622

CSV
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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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