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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
PALS/In Situ Multi-Campaign 800 m UTM Grid Brightness Temperature, Backscatter, and Soil Moisture Match-Up V001 1 AIRCRAFT PALS 1999-07-08 to 1999-07-14

N: 35.21 S: 34.91 E: -97.83 W: -98.67

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N: 41.99 S: 41.92 E: -93.4 W: -93.8

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N: 39.09 S: 38.95 E: -75.54 W: -76.18

800 Meters x 800 Meters ASCII
Pantropical Forest Height and Biomass from GEDI and TanDEM-X Data Fusion 1 ISS, G-LiHT, TDX GEDI, LIDAR, TDX-1 2011-01-06 to 2021-08-18

N: 33 S: -15.005 E: 15.005 W: -119

COG
PARABOLA Data (FIFE) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION PARABOLA 1987-06-06 to 1989-08-08

N: 39.1 S: 39.05 E: -96.5 W: -96.59

multiple
PhenoCam Dataset v2.0: Digital Camera Imagery from the PhenoCam Network, 2000-2018 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION CAMERA 1999-11-16 to 2018-12-31

N: 71.28 S: -22.97 E: 119.22 W: -158.15

ASCII, Binary
PhenoCam Dataset v2.0: Vegetation Phenology from Digital Camera Imagery, 2000-2018 2 FIELD INVESTIGATION CAMERA 1999-11-16 to 2018-12-31

N: 71.28 S: -22.97 E: 119.22 W: -158.15

CSV, GeoTIFF, JSON, Text File
PhenoCam Dataset v3.0: Digital Camera Imagery from the PhenoCam Network, 2000-2023 3 FIELD INVESTIGATION CAMERAS 2000-02-01 to 2023-12-31

N: 71.29 S: -45.0389 E: 172.351 W: -158.171

multiple
PhenoCam Dataset v3.0: Vegetation Phenology from Digital Camera Imagery, 2000-2023 3 FIELD SURVEYS CAMERAS 1999-12-31 to 2023-12-31

N: 71.283 S: -45.0386 E: 172.351 W: -158.171

multiple
Phenology derived from Satellite Data and PhenoCam across CONUS and Alaska, 2019-2020 1 Sentinel-2A, LANDSAT-8 Sentinel-2 MSI, OLI 2019-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 63.9265 S: 27.1314 E: -68.6772 W: -145.854

multiple
Phenoregions For Monitoring Vegetation Responses to Climate Change 1 LANDSAT-7 TM 1982-01-01 to 1999-12-31

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

Text File
Plant Biomass/Production/Consump. (FIFE) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION BALANCE 1987-05-18 to 1987-10-13

N: 39.12 S: 38.98 E: -96.47 W: -96.54

ASCII
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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
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
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