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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
CMS: Soil CO2 Efflux and Properties, Site Vegetation Measurements, Mexico, 2011-2012 1 FIELD SURVEYS SOIL SAMPLER 2011-08-01 to 2012-08-31

N: 32.04 S: 32.02 E: -116.59 W: -116.61

CSV
BOREAS RSS-20 POLDER Helicopter-Mounted Measurements of Surface BRDF 1 HELICOPTER POLDER 1994-06-07 to 1994-09-17

N: 55.9 S: 53.9 E: -98.29 W: -104.64

ASCII
VIIRS (NOAA 21) I Band 375 m Active Fire Product NRT (Vector data) 1 NOAA-21 VIIRS 2016-01-01

N: 80 S: -80 E: 180 W: -180

375 Meters x 375 Meters TXT, SHP, KML, WMS, as FIRMS email alerts
VEMAP 2: Monthly Ecosystem Model Responses to U.S. Climate Change, 1994-2100 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1994-01-01 to 2100-12-31

N: 50 S: 26 E: -66 W: -124

netCDF-3
ABoVE: Wetland Vegetation Classification for Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada, 2019 1 PIPER NAVAJO CHIEFTAIN, G-III, B-200 Riegl Airborne Lidar, UAVSAR, AVIRIS-NG 2019-07-15 to 2019-09-15

N: 59.1425 S: 58.2123 E: -110.832 W: -112.107

multiple
CMS: Pinyon-Juniper Forest Live Aboveground Biomass, Great Basin, USA, 2000-2016 1 MODELS Computer 2000-01-01 to 2016-12-31

N: 47.1179 S: 33.9309 E: -109.312 W: -123.896

GeoTIFF
Blueflux: Terrestrial Lidar Scans of Mangrove Forests, Everglades, FL, USA, 2022-2023 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION TLS 2022-03-20 to 2023-03-13

N: 25.3796 S: 25.1441 E: -80.9049 W: -81.0811

multiple
SHIFT: Vegetation Plot Characterization, Santa Barbara County, CA, 2022 1 FIELD SURVEYS SURVEYING TOOLS 2022-02-23 to 2022-09-27

N: 34.89 S: 34.39 E: -119.52 W: -120.62

multiple
BOREAS TE-10 Leaf Chemistry Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, LICOR LEAF AREA METER, SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, CHN ANALYZERS 1994-05-25 to 1996-10-13

N: 53.99 S: 53.63 E: -104.65 W: -106.2

ASCII
CMS: LiDAR-derived Canopy Height, Elevation for Sites in Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2014 1 Airplane LIDAR 2014-10-18 to 2014-11-30

N: 3.21104 S: -2.7625 E: 118 W: 109.813

GeoTIFF
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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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