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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
Trends of Thermal, Wetness, and Vegetative Change in the Circumpolar Arctic 1 COMPUTERS Computer 1980-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 90 S: 30 E: 180 W: -180

multiple
Tundra Plant Leaf-level Spectral Reflectance and Chlorophyll Fluorescence, 2019-2021 1 FIELD SURVEYS SPECTROMETERS 2019-07-19 to 2021-09-30

N: 71.313 S: 64.826 E: -147.811 W: -156.599

CSV
Tundra Plant Reflectance, CO2 Exchange, PAM Fluorometry, and Pigments, AK, 2001-2002 1 FIELD SURVEYS FLUOROMETERS, INFRARED THERMOMETERS, SPECTROMETERS 2001-06-08 to 2002-08-16

N: 71.32 S: 70.453 E: -156.598 W: -157.407

CSV
UAVSAR Polarimetric Products for ABoVE Wetland Sites, Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada 1 G-III UAVSAR 2017-06-13 to 2022-08-16

N: 59.4366 S: 57.5914 E: -111.172 W: -111.608

COG
Understory Vegetation Biomass from Selected Burned and Unburned sites in Alaska 1 FIELD SURVEYS SURVEYING TOOLS 2016-08-09 to 2018-07-11

N: 68.991 S: 63.8799 E: -146.558 W: -150.28

CSV
Urban Biogenic CO2 fluxes: GPP, Reco and NEE Estimates from SMUrF, 2010-2019 1 MODELS, SATELLITES Computer, MODIS 2010-01-01 to 2019-12-31

N: 60 S: -40 E: 155 W: -125

netCDF-4 classic
Urban Land Cover Maps for Mekelle, Ethiopia and Polokwane, South Africa, 2020 1 PlanetScope, WORLDVIEW-3 PSB.SD, WV110 2020-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 13.5692 S: -23.9404 E: 39.5708 W: 29.3151

multiple
Vegetation and Open Water High-Resolution Maps for Selected US Tidal Marshes, 2015 1 LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-8, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS, LANDSAT-5 ETM+, OLI, CAMERA, TMS 2013-09-25 to 2015-08-27

N: 47.1174 S: 24.9166 E: -69.9267 W: -122.733

Shapefile
Vegetation Biophysical Data (FIFE) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY LICOR LEAF AREA METER, INCLINOMETERS, BALANCE 1987-05-26 to 1989-08-18

N: 39.12 S: 38.98 E: -96.45 W: -96.61

multiple
Vegetation Index and Phenology (VIP) Phenology EVI-2 Yearly Global 0.05Deg CMG V004 004 NOAA-7, NOAA-9, NOAA-11, NOAA-14, Terra AVHRR, MODIS 1981-01-01 to 2014-12-31

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

5600 Meters x 5600 Meters HDF-EOS2
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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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