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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

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Aboveground Biomass Density for High Latitude Forests from ICESat-2, 2020 1 ICESat-2, Sentinel-2A ATLAS, Sentinel-2 MSI 2019-06-01 to 2021-09-30

N: 78.5313 S: 43.705 E: 178.399 W: -179.818

multiple
BOREAS Derived Surface Meteorological Data 1 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS THERMOCOUPLES, HUMIDITY SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, BAROMETERS, NET RADIOMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, ULTRASONIC DEPTH GAUGE, INFRARED THERMOMETERS, Pyrgeometer, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR 1994-01-01 to 1996-12-31

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

ASCII
BOREAS TE-12 Incoming PAR Through the Forest Canopy Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR 1996-07-04 to 1996-07-25

N: 53.99 S: 53.99 E: -105.12 W: -105.12

ASCII
CMS: Mangrove Canopy Height from High-resolution Stereo Image Pairs, Mozambique, 2012 1 WORLDVIEW-1 2012-09-01 to 2012-09-30

N: -25.9828 S: -26.3889 E: 32.9997 W: 32.8133

GeoTIFF
LBA Regional Land Cover from AVHRR, 1-km, Version 1.2 (IGBP) 1 NOAA-11 AVHRR 1992-04-01 to 1993-03-31

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

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LBA-ECO ND-07 Carbon and Nitrogen in Cerrado Plants and Soils, Brasilia: 1999-2000 1 LABORATORY CHN ANALYZERS, MASS SPECTROMETERS, CARBON ANALYZERS 1999-12-01 to 2000-09-30

N: -15.9328 S: -15.9328 E: -47.8506 W: -47.8506

CSV
NACP TERRA-PNW: Forest Plant Traits, NPP, Biomass, and Soil Properties, 1999-2014 1 FIELD SURVEYS LASERS, HYDROMETERS, CHN ANALYZERS, LICOR PLANT CANOPY ANALYZER 1999-05-27 to 2014-07-23

N: 45.9477 S: 37.7844 E: -117.131 W: -123.904

CSV
Seedling Canopy Reflectance Spectra, 1992-1993 (ACCP) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION SPECTRORADIOMETERS 1992-11-06 to 1993-03-15

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

ASCII
Aircraft Flux-Filtered: Univ. Col. (FIFE) 1 B-200 HYGROMETERS, INFRARED RADIOMETERS, PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS, EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES, NDIR GAS ANALYZER, RADAR ALTIMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, WIND PROFILERS 1987-05-26 to 1989-10-31

N: 40 S: 37 E: -95 W: -102

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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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