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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
LBA-ECO LC-21 Soil Characteristics, Logged Areas, Tapajos Forest, Para, Brazil: 2003 1 LABORATORY MASS SPECTROMETERS, ICP-AES 2003-03-01 to 2003-03-01

N: -2.75 S: -3.5833 E: -54.8333 W: -55.25

CSV
NACP Forest Age Maps at 1-km Resolution for Canada (2004) and the U.S.A. (2006) 1 LANDSAT-7 ETM+, TM 1950-01-01 to 2006-12-31

N: 67.008 S: 7.7126 E: -39.866 W: 179.251

multiple
SAFARI 2000 PAI Estimates from Hemispherical Photography, Kalahari Transect 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2000-02-01 to 2000-09-30

N: -15.4378 S: -24.1475 E: 25.5003 W: 21.8928

CSV
ABoVE: Characterization of Carbon Dynamics in Burned Forest Plots, NWT, Canada, 2014 1 FIELD SURVEYS, MODELS, LABORATORY CLINOMETERS, Computer, MASS SPECTROMETERS 2015-06-14 to 2015-06-14

N: 71.6947 S: 56.2542 E: -102 W: -136.119

CSV
LBA-ECO ND-04 Termite Mound and Soil Characterization, Amazonas, Brazil: 1999-2001 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, AAS, BALANCE, CORING DEVICES 1999-12-15 to 2002-06-26

N: -2.518 S: -2.518 E: -60.03 W: -60.03

CSV
NAMMA SENEGAL RADIOSONDE AND TOWER FLUX DATA V1 1 GROUND STATIONS, RADIOSONDES NET RADIOMETERS, GPS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, PRESSURE SENSORS, TELEMETER, TEMPERATURE SENSORS 2006-08-19 to 2006-09-17

N: 15.5 S: 13.91 E: 17.09 W: -17.97

ASCII
LBA-ECO CD-08 Leaf Carbon, Nitrogen, LAI, and Isotope Data, Manaus, Brazil: 2001 1 LABORATORY, FIELD INVESTIGATION CHN ANALYZERS, MASS SPECTROMETERS, BALANCE 2001-08-08 to 2001-08-08

N: -2.5 S: -2.609 E: -60 W: -60.2091

CSV
ABoVE: Aerial Photographs of Frozen Lakes near Fairbanks, Alaska, October 2014 1 Airplane MULTI-SPECTRAL 2014-10-08 to 2014-10-08

N: 64.9392 S: 64.8589 E: -147.758 W: -147.949

GeoTIFF
Aircraft Flux-Raw: Univ. Col. (FIFE) 1 B-200 HYGROMETERS, INFRARED RADIOMETERS, PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS, EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES, NDIR GAS ANALYZER, RADAR ALTIMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, WIND PROFILERS 1987-05-26 to 1989-10-31

N: 40 S: 37 E: -95 W: -102

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An integrated Wildfire Event Dataset (iWED), Version 1, Continental U.S., 1992-2021 1 COMPUTERS Computer 1992-01-01 to 2021-12-31

N: 71.1503 S: 25 E: -67.6 W: -178.821

CSV
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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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