Delivery of Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite data products will cease on November 1, 2026. Data users should transition now to alternative products from NOAA-21 and NOAA-20.
Suomi NPP data announcement
Biosphere News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Biosphere.
Anthropologists and archaeologists explore how people and the environment interact over thousands of years.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
New logic for classifying vegetation using the Global Land AVHRR Dataset (GLAD).
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
The Amazon rainforest is losing ground as human activity fragments the forests.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
The Mercury Tool was designed to facilitate a process that does not result in large, centralized data management.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
Image captured on 24 October 2019, by the MODIS instrument, aboard the Aqua satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
June 30, 2020
Image captured on 23 November 2015 by the MODIS instrument, aboard the Terra satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
June 26, 2020
Assessment of the 2020 Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) survey identified 10 activities to address Federal agency satellite needs.
News
June 16, 2020
Image captured on 31 May 2020, by the MODIS instrument, aboard the Terra satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
June 8, 2020
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