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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 Soil Profile Data (ISRIC-WISE) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1950-01-01 to 1995-12-31

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

Text File
SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_GRD_HIGH_RES 1 Sentinel-1A C-SAR 2014-04-03 to Present

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

Impacts of Wildfires on Boreal Forest Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics 1 MODELS, LANDSAT-1 Computer, MSS 1986-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 70 S: 43.5 E: -53 W: -166

CSV
ABoVE: Methane Flux across Two Thermokarst Lake Ecosystems, Interior Alaska, 2018 1 FIELD SURVEYS GAS SENSORS, CO2 ANALYZERS, GPS, SPECTROMETERS 2018-07-17 to 2018-07-29

N: 64.9207 S: 64.9151 E: -147.819 W: -147.85

CSV
LUH2-ISIMIP2b Harmonized Global Land Use for the Years 2015-2100 1 MODELS Computer 2015-01-01 to 2100-01-01

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

netCDF-4 classic
LBA-ECO CD-10 Coarse Woody Debris Data at km 67 Tower Site, Tapajos National Forest 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 2001-04-15 to 2001-07-15

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

Text File
ALOS PALSAR Level 1.5 Product 1 ALOS PALSAR 2006-03-23 to 2011-04-22

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

ABoVE: Annual Phenology Derived from Landsat across the ABoVE Core Domain, 1984-2014 1 LANDSAT-5, LANDSAT-7 TM, ETM+ 1984-01-01 to 2014-12-31

N: 75.0139 S: 50.259 E: -98.974 W: -170.006

GeoTIFF
An Unexpectedly Large Count of Trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel 1 MODELS Computer 2005-11-01 to 2018-03-31

N: 24.0294 S: 11.3531 E: -5.48513 W: -18

multiple
BOREAS Prince Albert National Park Forest Cover Data in Vector Format 1 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS DIGITIZER 1978-01-01 to 1994-12-31

N: 54.33 S: 53.56 E: -105.99 W: -106.8

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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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