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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
Maps of Vegetation Types and Physiographic Features, Imnavait Creek, Alaska 1 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1970-06-01 to 2015-08-31

N: 68.6321 S: 68.61 E: -149.258 W: -149.376

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Maps of Vegetation Types and Physiographic Features, Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska 1 SPOT-1, LANDSAT ETM+, MSS 1976-08-04 to 2008-12-31

N: 70.5422 S: 68.2881 E: -148.085 W: -151.196

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Maps of Vegetation Types and Physiographic Features, Toolik Lake Area, Alaska 1 COMPUTERS Computer 1990-01-01 to 2014-08-31

N: 68.6561 S: 68.6169 E: -149.546 W: -149.67

Shapefile
Maps of Vegetation, NDVI, Snow and Thaw Depths: North Slope, Alaska and NWT, Canada 1 FIELD SURVEYS, FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, SPECTROMETERS, SNOW MEASURING ROD 2000-08-01 to 2012-12-31

N: 78.7857 S: 68.3617 E: -103.552 W: -148.852

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MAPSS: Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System Model, Version 1.0 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1995-01-01 to 1995-01-01

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

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MASTER: California Fire-Burn Area Emergency Response, California, April 2008 1 B-200 MASTER 2008-04-14 to 2008-04-26

N: 37.8333 S: 32.5333 E: -116.55 W: -122.583

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MASTER: FireSense, California and Southern US, Spring 2025 1 B-200 MASTER 2025-03-17 to 2025-04-18

N: 33.4811 S: 30.2467 E: -81.6656 W: -116.044

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MASTER: FireSense, western US, October 2023 1 B-200 MASTER 2023-10-16 to 2023-10-26

N: 39.2058 S: 33.0192 E: -112.052 W: -120.169

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Mean Annual Fluxes of Carbon in Coastal Ecosystems of Eastern North America 1 MODELS Computer 1976-01-01 to 2017-12-31

N: 45 S: 25 E: -65 W: -85

CSV
MEaSUREs Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) Yearly Global 0.05 Deg V001 001 NOAA-7, NOAA-9, NOAA-11, NOAA-14, Terra AVHRR, MODIS 1982-01-01 to 2016-12-31

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

5600 Meters x 5600 Meters 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
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
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