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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 Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Data Format
NACP North American 8-km Net Ecosystem Exchange and Component Fluxes, 2004 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2004-01-01 to 2004-12-31 Binary
NACP North American Forest Dynamics Project: Forest Disturbance and Regrowth Data LANDSAT-5 MSS 1984-06-04 to 2009-09-16 GeoTIFF
NACP Peatland Land Cover Map of Upper Peninsula, Michigan, 2007-2011 ALOS, LANDSAT-5 PALSAR 2007-03-01 to 2011-10-01 GeoTIFF
NACP Peatland Landcover Type and Wildfire Burn Severity Maps, Alberta, Canada NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2010-06-17 to 2013-07-22 multiple
NACP Regional: Gridded 1-deg Observation Data and Biosphere and Inverse Model Outputs Terra, Aqua MODIS 1990-01-01 to 2007-12-31 Shapefile
NACP Regional: National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and Aggregated Gridded Model Data NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2000-01-01 to 2007-12-31 multiple
NACP Regional: Original Observation Data and Biosphere and Inverse Model Outputs NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1990-01-01 to 2008-12-31 multiple
NACP Regional: Supplemental Gridded Observations, Biosphere and Inverse Model Outputs Terra, Aqua MODIS 1990-01-01 to 2008-12-31 Shapefile
NACP Site: Terrestrial Biosphere Model and Aggregated Flux Data in Standard Format NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1998-01-01 to 2007-12-31 Shapefile
NACP Site: Terrestrial Biosphere Model Output Data in Original Format NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1990-01-01 to 2007-12-31 Shapefile
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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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