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Land Surface Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
Collected Data from The Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study, NASA, CD-ROM 1 FIELD SURVEYS, LANDSAT, Airplane, SATELLITES, GOES HUMIDITY SENSORS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, PROBES, NETS, SOIL SAMPLER, MSS, TM, CAMERAS, RADIOSONDES, RAWINSONDES, VEGETATION-1, AVHRR 1993-01-01 to 1997-03-31

N: 59.98 S: 50.09 E: -93.5 W: -111

Shapefile
Arctic Tundra Flux Study in the Kuparuk River Basin (Alaska), 1994-1996 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES, PYRANOMETERS, NET RADIOMETERS, IRGA, HUMIDITY SENSORS, THERMISTORS, BAROMETERS, SONIC ANEMOMETER, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR 1994-01-01 to 1997-01-01

N: 69 S: 45 E: -130 W: -171

ASCII
BOREAS RSS-03 Reflectance Measured from a Helicopter-Mounted Barnes MMR 1 HELICOPTER MMR 1994-05-24 to 1994-09-19

N: 55.97 S: 53.59 E: -97.34 W: -106.2

ASCII
CARVE-ARCSS: Methane Loss From Arctic- Fluxes From the Alaskan North Slope, 2012-2014 1 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, C-23 Sherpa EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES, HUPCRS 2012-05-23 to 2014-12-31

N: 71.5 S: 68.3 E: -155 W: -158

multiple
LBA-ECO CD-06 Land Use/Land Cover Time Series, Ji-Parana Basin, Brazil: 1986-2001 1 LANDSAT-5, LANDSAT-7 TM, ETM+ 1986-06-01 to 2001-08-31

N: -8.0333 S: -12.9269 E: -60.015 W: -63.4153

Shapefile
LBA-ECO LC-03 SAR Images, Land Cover, and Biomass, Four Areas across Brazilian Amazon 1 RADARSAT-1, JERS-1 SAR, DIGITIZER 1974-01-01 to 1998-06-18

N: -2.0017 S: -10.5014 E: -54.4989 W: -68.5008

multiple
Sounder SIPS: Suomi NPP CrIMSS Level 3 Specific Quality Control Gridded Daily CHART Normal Spectral Resolution V1 1 Suomi-NPP CrIS, ATMS 2013-01-01 to 2015-11-01

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

IceBridge HiCARS 1 L2 Geolocated Ice Thickness V001 1 BT-67, DHC-6 HiCARS1 2009-01-02 to 2010-12-21

N: -53 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

XML, ASCII
SENTINEL-1B_RAW 1 Sentinel-1B C-SAR 2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24

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

VIIRS (NOAA 21) I Band 375 m Active Fire Product NRT (Vector data) 1 NOAA-21 VIIRS 2016-01-01

N: 80 S: -80 E: 180 W: -180

375 Meters x 375 Meters TXT, SHP, KML, WMS, as FIRMS email alerts
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Land Surface Data Tools

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Tool Description Services
ASF MapReady Terrain-correct, geocode, and apply polarimetric decompositions to multi-pol SAR data Processing
Earthdata Search Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings. Search and Discovery, Access, Cataloging, Cloud Computing, Downloading
Giovanni Giovanni is a web application for accessing, visualizing, and analyzing Earth science remote sensing data without downloading the data. Search and Discovery, Analysis, Access, Visualization, Downloading, Subsetting
OB.DAAC File Search Utility Find and download instrument data archived at OB.DAAC using mission parameters or filename patterns, including support for wildcard searching on partial filenames. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
Ocean Color Level 3 and 4 Browser The Ocean Color Level 3 and 4 Browser allows users to view, download, or order global composites at various spatial and temporal scales (level 3) or get results from analyses of lower-level data (level 4). Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
RTC Stack Processor The radiometric terrain correction (RTC) stack processor tool facilitates time-series analysis of such phenomena as flooding events, deforestation, or glacier retreat. Analysis, Processing, Search and Discovery, Visualization
SeaDAS Sea, earth, atmosphere Data Analysis System (SeaDAS) is a comprehensive image analysis package for the processing, display, analysis, and quality control of ocean color data. Analysis, Visualization, Processing
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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