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Land Surface Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Cropland Extent 2015 Africa 30 m V001 001 LANDSAT-8, Sentinel-2A, DEM, LANDSAT-5 OLI, Sentinel-2 MSI, TM 2013-01-01 to 2016-06-30

N: 40.10861 S: -50.108476 E: 70.001218 W: -37

30 Meters x 30 Meters GeoTIFF
Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Cropland Extent 2015 Australia, New Zealand, China, Mongolia 30 m V001 001 LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-7, DEM, LANDSAT-5 OLI, ETM+, TM 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

N: 60.095406 S: -62 E: 180 W: 60

30 Meters x 30 Meters GeoTIFF
Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Cropland Extent 2015 Europe, Central Asia, Russia, Middle East product 30 m V001 001 LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-7, DEM, LANDSAT-5 OLI, ETM+, TM 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

N: 90 S: 0 E: 180 W: -180

30 Meters x 30 Meters GeoTIFF
Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Cropland Extent 2015 South America product 30 m V001 001 LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-7, DEM, LANDSAT-5 OLI, ETM+, TM 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

N: 15 S: -60 E: -20 W: -110

30 Meters x 30 Meters GeoTIFF
Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Cropland Extent 2015 South Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran product 30 m V001 001 LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-7, DEM, LANDSAT-5 OLI, ETM+, TM 2013-01-01 to 2016-06-30

N: 40.10861 S: -10.038404 E: 100.001086 W: 39.998656

30 Meters x 30 Meters GeoTIFF
Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Cropland Extent 2015 Southeast and Northeast Asia product 30 m V001 001 LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-7, DEM OLI, ETM+ 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

N: 60 S: -45 E: 180 W: 70

30 Meters x 30 Meters GeoTIFF
Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Cropland Extent-Product 2015 Validation 30 m V001 001 LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-5, Sentinel-2A OLI, ETM+, TM, Sentinel-2 MSI 2008-01-01 to 2016-12-31

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

90 Meters x 90 Meters Shapefile
Global Forest Cover Change Surface Reflectance Estimates Multi-Year Global 30m V001 001 LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-5, Terra ETM+, TM, ASTER, MODIS 1984-03-12 to 2011-12-25

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

30 Meters x 30 Meters GeoTIFF
Global Forest Ecosystem Structure and Function Data For Carbon Balance Research 1 NOAA-14 AVHRR 1897-01-01 to 2006-12-31

N: 67.36 S: -42.87 E: 172.75 W: -159.5

Shapefile
Global Gridded 1-km Annual Soil Respiration and Uncertainty Derived from SRDB V3 1 MODELS Computer 1963-01-01 to 2011-12-31

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

GeoTIFF
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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
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
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