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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 RSS-07 LAI, Gap Fraction, and FPAR Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, LICOR PLANT CANOPY ANALYZER 1993-08-09 to 1994-09-17

N: 55.94 S: 53.63 E: -98.19 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS RSS-07 Landsat TM LAI Images of the SSA and NSA 1 LANDSAT-5 TM 1991-06-06 to 1994-06-09

N: 58.98 S: 50.09 E: -93.5 W: -111

Binary
BOREAS RSS-07 Regional LAI and FPAR Images From Ten-Day AVHRR-LAC Composites 1 NOAA-11 AVHRR 1994-04-09 to 1994-09-10

N: 61.01 S: 48.83 E: -93.29 W: -115.41

Binary
BOREAS RSS-08 BIOME-BGC Model Simulations at Tower Flux Sites in 1994 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1994-01-01 to 1994-12-31

N: 55.9 S: 53.63 E: -98.29 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS RSS-08 BIOME-BGC SSA Simulations of Annual Water and Carbon Fluxes 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1994-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 60 S: 49 E: -89 W: -111

Binary
BOREAS RSS-08 SSA IFC-3 Digitized Stereo Imagery at the OBS, OA, and OJP Sites 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION DIGITIZER 1994-08-30 to 1994-09-19

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

multiple
BOREAS RSS-10 TOMS Circumpolar One-Degree PAR Images 1 Nimbus-7 TOMS 1979-05-01 to 1989-09-30

N: 65.5 S: 41.5 E: 180 W: -180

Binary
BOREAS RSS-14 GOES-7 Level-2 Shortwave and Longwave Radiation Images 1 GOES-7 VAS 1994-02-05 to 1994-09-20

N: 65.91 S: 47.65 E: -87.12 W: -111

Binary
BOREAS RSS-15 SIR-C and TM Biomass and Landcover Maps of the NSA and SSA 1 SRL-1, SRL-2 SIR-C 1994-04-13 to 1995-09-02

N: 56.21 S: 53.63 E: -97.75 W: -105.61

Binary
BOREAS RSS-17 Dielectric Constant Profile Measurements 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION DIELECTRIC PROBE 1994-04-19 to 1994-04-28

N: 55.93 S: 53.63 E: -98.29 W: -106.2

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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