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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
BigFoot Field Data for North American Sites, 1999-2003 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION IR CO2 ANALYZER, LICOR LEAF AREA METER, QUADRATS, BALANCE 1999-01-01 to 2003-12-31

N: 71.2719 S: 34.32 E: -72.25 W: -156.613

multiple
ISLSCP II Global River Fluxes of Carbon and Sediments to the Oceans 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1947-01-01 to 1998-12-31

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

Shapefile
BOREAS TE-05 Soil Respiration Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION LICOR GAS EXCHANGE SYSTEM, THERMISTORS, THERMOCOUPLES 1994-05-26 to 1994-09-07

N: 55.93 S: 53.63 E: -98.51 W: -106.2

ASCII
ABoVE: LVIS L3 Gridded Vegetation Structure across North America, 2017 and 2019 1 G-V LVIS 2017-06-29 to 2019-08-08

N: 78.1366 S: 7.126 E: -28.8244 W: -167.324

multiple
LiDAR-Derived Aboveground Biomass and Uncertainty for California Forests, 2005-2014 1 Airplane LIDAR 2005-01-01 to 2014-12-31

N: 41.9828 S: 34.0508 E: -117.739 W: -123.746

multiple
ALOS PALSAR Level 1.1 Product 1 ALOS PALSAR 2006-01-23 to 2011-05-23

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

ABoVE: Angular-corrected MODIS MAIAC Reflectance across Alaska and Canada, 2000-2017 1 Terra, Aqua MODIS 2000-02-24 to 2017-12-31

N: 80.8064 S: 44.1164 E: 180 W: -180

HDF4
AMAZE-08 Aerosol Characterization and Meteorological Data, Central Amazon Basin: 2008 1 LABORATORY, FIELD SURVEYS LOPC-PMS, MASS SPECTROMETERS, CNC, AEROSOL/CLOUD PARTICLE SIZER 2008-02-05 to 2008-04-21

N: -2.4282 S: -2.75745 E: -60.0272 W: -60.3678

CSV
BOREAS Level-0 AOCI Imagery: Digital Counts in BIL Format 1 NASA ER-2 AOCI 1994-07-21 to 1994-07-21

N: 54.46 S: 52.98 E: -104.93 W: -105.91

Binary
BOREAS TF-11 SSA Fen Leaf Gas Exchange Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION LICOR GAS EXCHANGE SYSTEM, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1994-06-08 to 1995-08-06

N: 53.8 S: 53.8 E: -104.62 W: -104.62

ASCII
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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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