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Land Surface Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
BOREAS/SRC AMS Suite A Surface Meteorological and Radiation Data: 1994 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS WIND MONITOR, ULTRASONIC DEPTH GAUGE, TEMPERATURE PROBES, RAIN GAUGES, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, PYRANOMETERS, NET RADIOMETERS, BAROMETERS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, INFRARED THERMOMETERS 1993-12-15 to 1994-12-31

N: 56.89 S: 52.15 E: -97.87 W: -108.51

ASCII
Global Annual Soil Respiration Data (Raich and Schlesinger 1992) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION THERMOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, PHOTOSYNTHESIS CHAMBER, IRGA 1963-01-01 to 1992-01-01

N: 71.18 S: -37.5 E: 146.5 W: -156.4

multiple
LBA-ECO CD-08 Tropical Forest Ecosystem Respiration, Manaus, Brazil 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION IRGA, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, LICOR PLANT CANOPY ANALYZER 2000-07-29 to 2001-08-15

N: -2.589 S: -2.6091 E: -60.1152 W: -60.2093

CSV
Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L1-L3 Ancillary Static Data V001 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2015-01-14 to Present

N: 86.4 S: -86.4 E: 180 W: -180

Binary, HDF5, ASCII
Global Peatland Carbon Balance and Land Use Change CO2 Emissions Through the Holocene 1 MODELS Computer 1000-01-01 to 2001-12-31

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

multiple
LBA-ECO LC-07 Lake Sediment Nutrient Data, Lago Calado, Brazil: 1982-1984 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY DREDGING DEVICES, SEDIMENT CORERS, SPECTROMETERS, CHN ANALYZERS 1982-02-01 to 1984-08-31

N: -3.269 S: -3.319 E: -60.548 W: -60.583

CSV
High Mountain Asia 8-meter DEMs Derived from Cross-track Optical Imagery V001 1 GEOEYE-1, QUICKBIRD-2, WORLDVIEW-1, WORLDVIEW-2, WORLDVIEW-3 CAMERAS, QUICKBIRD/BHRC-60 2002-01-28 to 2016-11-24

N: 46 S: 26 E: 103 W: 67

8 Meters x 8 Meters PNG, GeoTIFF
SENTINEL-1B_SINGLE_POL_METADATA_GRD_HIGH_RES 1 Sentinel-1B C-SAR 2016-04-25 to 2021-12-24

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

SAFARI 2000 1-Degree Estimates of Burned Biomass, Area, and Emissions, 2000 1 MODELS, SPOT-4, ERS-2, Terra Computer, MULTI-SPECTRAL, ATSR, MODIS 2000-08-01 to 2000-09-30

N: 0 S: -36 E: 56 W: -18

Shapefile
Soil Respiration Maps for the ABoVE Domain, 2016-2017 1 MODELS Computer 2016-08-18 to 2018-09-12

N: 76.6874 S: 55.8073 E: -98.7366 W: -169.505

multiple
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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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