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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 Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
SAR Subsets for Selected Field Sites, 2007-2010 1 ALOS PALSAR 2007-06-05 to 2010-12-14

N: 78.9459 S: -11.3224 E: -28.8805 W: -150.714

Shapefile
Satellite-Derived Forest Extent Likelihood Map for Mexico 1 COMPUTERS Computer 2010-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 34.51 S: 12.4781 E: -84.295 W: -120.306

multiple
SE-590 Leaf Optical Prop. Data (FIFE) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION LICOR INTEGRATING SPHERE, SPECTRORADIOMETERS 1989-08-02 to 1989-08-07

N: 39.09 S: 38.98 E: -96.54 W: -96.55

multiple
Sea Level Rise Impacts on Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance 1.0 MODELS Computer 2000-01-01 to 2010-12-31

N: 85 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180

Excel, WMS
Seasat Level 1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Products 1 SEASAT 1 SAR 1978-07-04 to 1978-10-12 GeoTIFF, HDF5, XML, KML, Text File
Seedling Canopy Chemistry, 1992-1993 (ACCP) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, CHN ANALYZERS, LICOR LEAF AREA METER, SPECTROPHOTOMETERS 1992-11-06 to 1993-03-15

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

ASCII
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
Sentinel-1 Interferograms 1 Sentinel-1A, Sentinel-1B SENTINEL-1A C-Band SAR, SENTINEL-1B C-Band SAR 2014-10-15 to 2023-05-28

N: 20.31149 S: 18.84486 E: -154.672 W: -156.4174

,

N: 37.00386 S: 30.13852 E: -112.4875 W: -114.0486

,

N: 55.19449 S: 53.97382 E: -161.2068 W: -165.6942

,

N: 35.68992 S: 34.68611 E: -119.0944 W: -120.6429

,

N: 32.6 S: 31.94 E: -103.6 W: -104.86

Sentinel-1A Dual Polarization Full Resolution Ground Range Detected Product 1 Sentinel-1A C-SAR 2014-04-03 to Present

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

Sentinel-1A Dual Polarization Full Resolution Ground Range Detected Product Metadata 1 Sentinel-1A C-SAR 2014-04-03 to Present

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

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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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