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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-13 GIS Coverages of Logged Areas, Tapajos Forest, Para, Brazil: 1996, 1998 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION GPS 1996-01-01 to 1998-12-31

N: -2.25 S: -3.5 E: -54 W: -56

Shapefile
MODIS-derived Biophysical Parameters for 5-km Land Cover, North America, 2000-2012 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2000-01-01 to 2012-12-31

N: 60 S: 20 E: -40 W: -160

netCDF-4 classic
ABoVE: Synthesis of Burned and Unburned Forest Site Data, AK and Canada, 1983-2016 1 MODELS, FIELD INVESTIGATION Computer, PROBES, SOIL SAMPLER 1983-01-01 to 2016-08-08

N: 67.2297 S: 53.1911 E: -88.612 W: -150.902

CSV
SnowEx23 Mar23 Snow Pit Measurements V001 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS A2 Photonic_WISe, GPS, MICROSCOPES, SNOW DENSITY CUTTER, THERMOMETERS 2022-03-07 to 2023-03-16

N: 70.08434 S: 64.69925 E: -147.48583 W: -149.59716

CSV, Excel, JPEG, PDF
Biome-BGC: Modeling Effects of Disturbance and Climate (Thornton et al. 2002) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2002-12-02 to 2002-12-02

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

multiple
Land Cover and Vegetation Map, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 1 LANDSAT, HELICOPTER, FIELD SURVEYS, DEM TM, CAMERA, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, Computer 1982-06-01 to 1993-08-31

N: 70.7117 S: 68.8981 E: -140.322 W: -147.051

GeoTIFF
BOREAS TE-08 Aspen Bark Spectral Reflectance Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, VIRR 1993-08-16 to 1994-09-21

N: 53.71 S: 53.63 E: -105.32 W: -106.2

ASCII
CMS: Forest Carbon Stocks, Emissions, and Net Flux for the Conterminous US: 2005-2010 1 MODELS Computer 2005-01-01 to 2010-12-31

N: 50 S: 19.2881 E: -55.8472 W: -136.153

GeoTIFF
Forest Aboveground Biomass for the Southwestern U.S. from MISR, 2000-2021 1 Terra MISR 2000-05-15 to 2021-06-30

N: 46.2812 S: 28.599 E: -99.0185 W: -126.18

GeoTIFF
L2 Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) from SCIAMACHY, 2003-2012 1 ENVISAT SCIAMACHY 2003-01-01 to 2012-04-08

N: 70 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
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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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