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SAFARI 2000 Estimated BVOC Emissions for Southern African Land Cover Types 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, Terra THERMOMETERS, MODIS 2001-01-01 to 2001-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

CSV
SAFARI 2000 Hydrographic Data, 1-Deg, Release 2.2 (Cogley) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1970-01-01 to 1990-01-01

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

multiple
SAFARI 2000 Kalahari Transect CO2, Water Vapor, and Heat Flux, Wet Season 2000 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS TDR, THERMOCOUPLES, SOIL HEAT FLUX TRANSDUCER, INFRARED THERMOMETERS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, SONIC ANEMOMETER, IR CO2 ANALYZER, NET RADIOMETERS, HUMIDITY SENSORS 2000-03-01 to 2000-03-19

N: -15.438 S: -24.164 E: 23.594 W: 21.713

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Land Cover from AVHRR, 1-Deg, 1987 (Defries and Townshend) 1 NOAA-9, NOAA-10, NOAA-11 AVHRR 1987-01-01 to 1987-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

multiple
SAFARI 2000 Land Cover from AVHRR, 1-km, 1992-1993 (Hansen et al.) 1 NOAA-11, NOAA-9, NOAA-10 AVHRR 1992-01-01 to 1993-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Land Cover from AVHRR, 8-km, 1984 (DeFries et al.) 1 NOAA-10, NOAA-9, NOAA-11 AVHRR 1984-01-01 to 1984-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

multiple
SAFARI 2000 Landscape Photographs of Kalahari Transect, Mongu, Skukuza Sites 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION HRC 2000-03-01 to 2000-09-11

N: -15.4211 S: -25.02 E: 31.48 W: 21.6964

multiple
SAFARI 2000 Meteorological and Flux Tower Measurements in Maun, Botswana, 2000 1 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, FIELD INVESTIGATION PYRANOMETERS, IRGA, PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS, TEMPERATURE PROBES, RTD, ANEMOMETERS, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, RAIN GAUGES, HUMIDITY SENSORS, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, THERMOMETERS 2000-02-01 to 2000-09-30

N: -19.9 S: -19.9 E: 23.55 W: 23.55

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SAFARI 2000 MISR Level 2 Data, Southern Africa, Dry Season 2000 1 Terra MISR 2000-08-12 to 2000-09-28

N: -15 S: -35 E: 31.49 W: 9.08

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 MODIS 500-m Burned Area Products, Southern Africa, Dry Season 2000 1 Terra MODIS 2000-06-27 to 2000-10-04

N: 0 S: -37.225 E: 56.7519 W: 5

multiple
SAFARI 2000 MODIS Airborne Simulator Data, Southern Africa, Dry Season 2000 2 C-130 MAS 2000-08-17 to 2000-09-25

N: -11.81 S: -32.67 E: 41.07 W: 9.06

HDF4
SAFARI 2000 MODIS L3 Albedo and Land Cover Data, Southern Africa, Dry Season 2000 1 Terra MODIS 2000-07-11 to 2000-10-15

N: 5 S: -30 E: 60 W: 5

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 MODIS Water and Heat Fluxes, Maun, Botswana, Dry Season 2001 1 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, FIELD INVESTIGATION, Terra, MODELS PRESSURE SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, HUMIDITY SENSORS, NET RADIOMETERS, EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES, SOIL HEAT FLUX TRANSDUCER, MODIS, Computer 2001-09-02 to 2001-09-29

N: -17.9946 S: -21.0004 E: 24.5004 W: 21.4946

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SAFARI 2000 Monthly and Annual CO2 Emissions from Soil, 0.5 Degree Grid 1 MODELS Computer 1995-01-01 to 1995-12-31

N: -5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

ASCII
SAFARI 2000 NBI Vegetation Map of the Savannas of Southern Africa 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION DIGITIZER 1968-01-01 to 2000-12-31

N: 0 S: -35 E: 43 W: 8

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Organic Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Data (Zinke et al.) 1 FIELD SURVEYS CARBON ANALYZERS, COLORIMETERS 1940-01-01 to 1984-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

multiple
SAFARI 2000 Plant and Soil C and N Isotopes, Southern Africa, 1995-2000 1 LABORATORY MASS SPECTROMETERS 1995-03-01 to 2000-03-28

N: -14.42 S: -27.75 E: 31.75 W: 19.17

CSV
SAFARI 2000 Potential Vegetation, 5-min (Ramankutty and Foley) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1753-01-01 to 1992-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

multiple
SAFARI 2000 Pre- and Post-fire Reflectance near Kaoma, Zambia, Dry Season 2000 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION BALANCE, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, SPECTRORADIOMETERS, QUADRATS 2000-08-24 to 2000-09-04

N: -14.79 S: -14.79 E: 24.8 W: 24.8

multiple
SAFARI 2000 Reflectance of Fire Residue, Kruger National Park, Dry Season 2000 1 LABORATORY SPECTRORADIOMETERS 2000-08-14 to 2000-08-14

N: -24.16 S: -25.75 E: 22.3294 W: 21.83

CSV
SAFARI 2000 Selected Soil Characteristics, 10-km Grid (IGBP-DIS) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1995-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: -5

ASCII
SAFARI 2000 Soil Profile Data (ISRIC-WISE) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1950-01-01 to 1995-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

Text File
SAFARI 2000 Soil Properties, Moisture, and Temp., Skukuza and Mongu, 1999-2001 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION INFRARED THERMOMETERS, THERMISTORS, TDR, THERMOCOUPLES 1999-08-19 to 2001-12-31

N: -15.4383 S: -25.02 E: 31.4678 W: 23.2527

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Soil Types, 0.5-Deg Grid (Modified Zobler) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1974-01-01 to 1981-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

ASCII
SAFARI 2000 Surface Spectral Reflectance at Sua Pan, Botswana, Dry Season 2000 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION SPECTRORADIOMETERS 2000-08-24 to 2000-09-03

N: -20.5168 S: -20.5772 E: 26.0803 W: 26.0298

CSV
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Land Surface Data Tools

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ASF MapReady Terrain-correct, geocode, and apply polarimetric decompositions to multi-pol SAR data Processing
FLOOD The FLOOD viewer facilitates the use and evaluation of LANCE flood products by allowing the user to browse globally and over time, and to compare to other flood products. Monitoring Natural Events, Search and Discovery, Visualization
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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