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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
PhenoCam Dataset v2.0: Vegetation Phenology from Digital Camera Imagery, 2000-2018 FIELD INVESTIGATION CAMERA 1999-11-16 to 2018-12-31 GLOBAL CSV, GeoTIFF, JSON, Text File
PhenoCam Dataset v3.0: Digital Camera Imagery from the PhenoCam Network, 2000-2023 FIELD INVESTIGATION CAMERAS 2000-02-01 to 2023-12-31 GLOBAL multiple
PhenoCam Dataset v3.0: Vegetation Phenology from Digital Camera Imagery, 2000-2023 FIELD SURVEYS CAMERAS 1999-12-31 to 2023-12-31 GLOBAL multiple
Phenology derived from Satellite Data and PhenoCam across CONUS and Alaska, 2019-2020 Sentinel-2A, LANDSAT-8 Sentinel-2 MSI, OLI 2019-01-01 to 2020-12-31 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ALASKA multiple
Phenoregions For Monitoring Vegetation Responses to Climate Change LANDSAT-7 TM 1982-01-01 to 1999-12-31 Text File
Plant Biomass/Production/Consump. (FIFE) FIELD INVESTIGATION BALANCE 1987-05-18 to 1987-10-13 ASCII
PnET Models: Carbon, Nitrogen, Water Dynamics in Forest Ecosystems (Vers. 4 and 5) NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1992-01-01 to 2003-04-21 multiple
PnET-BGC: Modeling Biogeochemical Processes in a Northern Hardwood Forest Ecosystem NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2000-11-05 to 2001-12-31 multiple
Post-fire Recovery of Soil Organic Layer Carbon in Canadian Boreal Forests, 2015-2018 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, CHN ANALYZERS, CORING DEVICES 2015-06-11 to 2018-08-24 NORTHWEST TERRITORIES CSV
Potential Areas of Gas Seepage Detected by SAR in Lakes near Fairbanks, Alaska COMPUTERS, ALOS Computer, PALSAR 2006-12-04 to 2011-03-17 ALASKA multiple
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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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