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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
BOREAS Level-0 TIMS Imagery: Digital Counts in BIL Format 1 C-130 TIMS 1994-04-16 to 1994-09-17

N: 56.25 S: 53.42 E: -97.23 W: -106.32

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BOREAS Prince Albert National Park Forest Cover Data in Vector Format 1 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS DIGITIZER 1978-01-01 to 1994-12-31

N: 54.33 S: 53.56 E: -105.99 W: -106.8

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BOREAS Regional Soils Data in Raster Format and AEAC Projection 1 MAPS DIGITIZER 1991-01-01 to 1991-12-31

N: 59.98 S: 50.09 E: -93.5 W: -111

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BOREAS RSS-01 PARABOLA SSA Surface Reflectance and Transmittance Data 1 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS PARABOLA 1994-04-16 to 1996-07-30

N: 53.99 S: 53.63 E: -104.69 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS RSS-02 Extracted Reflectance Factors Derived from ASAS Imagery 1 C-130 ASAS 1994-05-24 to 1996-07-20

N: 53.99 S: 53.24 E: -104.62 W: -106.2

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BOREAS RSS-03 Imagery and Snapshots from a Helicopter-Mounted Video Camera 2 HELICOPTER VIDEO CAMERA 1994-05-31 to 1994-09-16

N: 56.0034 S: 53.6289 E: -97.4857 W: -106.198

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BOREAS RSS-03 Reflectance Measured from a Helicopter-Mounted Barnes MMR 1 HELICOPTER MMR 1994-05-24 to 1994-09-19

N: 55.97 S: 53.59 E: -97.34 W: -106.2

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BOREAS RSS-03 Reflectance Measured from a Helicopter-Mounted SE-590 1 HELICOPTER SPECTRORADIOMETERS 1994-05-31 to 1994-09-16

N: 56 S: 53.59 E: -97.34 W: -106.2

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BOREAS RSS-04 1994 Jack Pine Leaf Biochemistry and Modeled Spectra in the SSA 1 LABORATORY SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, BALANCE 1994-07-25 to 1994-08-05

N: 53.98 S: 53.87 E: -104.64 W: -105.05

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BOREAS RSS-04 1994 Southern Study Area Jack Pine LAI & FPAR Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION LICOR LEAF AREA METER, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR 1993-08-14 to 1994-08-05

N: 53.99 S: 53.65 E: -104.64 W: -105.32

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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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