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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
ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Vegetation Community and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2019 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE, SOIL DEPTH PROBE 2018-08-16 to 2019-09-05

N: 62.5658 S: 60.9206 E: -113.016 W: -117.425

CSV
Seasat Level 1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Products 1 SEASAT 1 SAR 1978-07-04 to 1978-10-12 GeoTIFF, HDF5, XML, KML, Text File
BigFoot Leaf Area Index Surfaces for North and South American Sites, 2000-2003 1 LANDSAT-7 ETM+ 2000-01-01 to 2003-12-31

N: 71.2719 S: -2.86 E: -54.96 W: -156.613

Shapefile
Global N Cycle: Fluxes and N2O Mixing Ratios Originating from Human Activity 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1756-01-01 to 2004-12-31

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

Text File
BOREAS TE-05 Tree Ring and Carbon Isotope Ratio Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, MASS SPECTROMETERS, MICROSCOPES 1993-08-09 to 1994-09-19

N: 55.93 S: 53.92 E: -98.62 W: -105.12

ASCII
CMS: Aboveground Biomass from Penobscot Experimental Forest, Maine, 2012 1 Airplane LIDAR 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31

N: 44.8726 S: 44.8269 E: -68.5862 W: -68.6443

GeoTIFF
FLUXNET Marconi Conference Gap-Filled Flux and Meteorology Data, 1992-2000 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, FIELD INVESTIGATION LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, THERMOMETERS, ANEMOMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES, THERMISTORS 1992-01-01 to 2000-12-31

N: 70.4696 S: -2.6091 E: 24.295 W: -157.409

multiple
ISLSCP II Northern Hemisphere Monthly Snow Cover Extent 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31

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

Shapefile
ABoVE: Burn Severity, Fire Progression, and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2015-2016 1 FIELD SURVEYS, Aqua, Terra SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, MODIS 2015-05-20 to 2016-08-08

N: 68.327 S: 59.927 E: -106.759 W: -135.543

CSV
LBA-ECO LC-21 Foliar Nutrients, Logged Areas, Tapajos Forest, Para, Brazil: 2003 1 LABORATORY ICP-AES, COLORIMETERS 2003-03-01 to 2003-03-01

N: -2.75 S: -3.5833 E: -54.2833 W: -55.25

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.
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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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