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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
SAFARI 2000 MODIS 500-m Burned Area Products, Southern Africa, Dry Season 2000 1 Terra MODIS 2000-06-27 to 2000-10-04

N: 0 S: -37.225 E: 56.7519 W: 5

multiple
LBA-ECO LC-02 GOES-08 Hot Pixel Data from Acre, Brazil: 1998, 2000, and 2001 1 GOES-8 GOES-8 Imager 1998-08-01 to 2001-10-30

N: -7.37 S: -11.14 E: -66.63 W: -73.58

CSV
LBA-ECO CD-02 Leaf Water Potential, Forest and Pasture Sites, Para, Brazil: 2000-2001 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION PRESSURE CHAMBERS 2000-03-01 to 2001-03-01

N: -2.857 S: -3.0202 E: -54.8885 W: -54.959

CSV
SAFARI 2000 Tree Cover from AVHRR, 1-km, 1992-1993 (DeFries et al.) 1 NOAA-9, NOAA-10, NOAA-11 AVHRR 1992-01-01 to 1993-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

multiple
ABoVE: Riverbank Erosion and Vegetation Changes, Yukon River Basin, Alaska, 1984-2017 1 LANDSAT-5, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-8 TM, ETM+, OLI 1984-01-01 to 2017-12-31

N: 68.1463 S: 61.9076 E: -143.305 W: -161.459

multiple
NACP MCI: CO2 Emissions Inventory, Upper Midwest Region, USA., 2007 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2007-01-01 to 2007-12-31

N: 50 S: 36 E: -81 W: -105

multiple
Ocean Surface pCO2 and Air-Sea CO2 Flux in the Northern Gulf of America, 2006-2010 1 Aqua MODIS 2006-01-01 to 2011-01-01

N: 32 S: 25 E: -86 W: -96

netCDF-4 classic
BOREAS SERM Forest Cover Data of Saskatchewan in Vector Format 1 MAPS DIGITIZER 1980-01-01 to 1989-12-31

N: 59.34 S: 50.57 E: -94.08 W: -110.05

ArcInfo Interchange
ERS-1 Level 1 Product 1 ERS-1 SAR 1991-08-08 to 1997-09-29

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

ABoVE: Burn Severity, Fire Progression, Landcover and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2014 1 Terra, FIELD SURVEYS, Aqua MODIS, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE 1997-07-07 to 2015-07-15

N: 64.2509 S: 60.3334 E: -110.677 W: -121.604

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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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