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Dataset Version Platform Instrument Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
G-LiHT Metrics V001 001 G-LiHT Headwall, Riegl Airborne Lidar 2011-06-30 to Present

N: 73 S: 10 E: -50 W: -170

13 Meters x 13 Meters GeoTIFF
Global 1-km Downscaled Urban Land Extent Projection and Base Year Grids by SSP Scenarios, 2000-2100 1.00 MODELS Computer 2000-01-01 to 2100-12-31

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

0.008333 Decimal Degrees x 0.008333 Decimal Degrees GeoTIFF, netCDF-4
Global 1-km Gridded Thickness of Soil, Regolith, and Sedimentary Deposit Layers 1 DEM HYDROMETERS 1900-01-01 to 2015-12-31

N: 90 S: -60 E: 180 W: -180

GeoTIFF
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
Global Data Set of Derived Soil Properties, 0.5-Degree Grid (ISRIC-WISE) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1950-01-01 to 1995-12-31

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

ASCII Grid
Global Distribution of Plant-Extractable Water Capacity of Soil (Dunne) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1996-01-01 to 1996-12-31

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

multiple
Global Fire Emissions Indicators, Country-Level Tabular Data: 1997-2015 1.0 MODELS Computer 1997-01-01 to 2015-12-31

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

Excel
Global Fire Emissions Indicators, Grids: 1997-2015 1.0 MODELS Computer 1997-01-01 to 2015-12-31

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

30 Decimal Degrees x 30 Decimal Degrees GeoTIFF, PDF, PNG, WMS
Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Cropland Extent 2010 North America product 30 m V001 001 LANDSAT-7, DEM, LANDSAT-5 ETM+, TM 2008-01-01 to 2015-12-31

N: 90 S: -0.001078 E: 1.928773 W: -180

30 Meters x 30 Meters GeoTIFF
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
Global Gridded 1-km Soil and Soil Heterotrophic Respiration Derived from SRDB v5 1 MODELS Computer 1961-01-01 to 2016-06-01

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

COG
Global Gridded Soil Phosphorus Distribution Maps at 0.5-degree Resolution 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1850-01-01 to 1850-12-31

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

netCDF-4 classic
Global Gridded Surfaces of Selected Soil Characteristics (IGBP-DIS) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1950-01-01 to 1996-12-31

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

ASCII Grid
Global High-Resolution Estimates of SIF from Fused SCIAMACHY and GOME-2, V2 2 METOP-A GOME-2, SCIAMACHY 2003-01-01 to 2017-12-31

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

netCDF-4
Global Hydrologic Soil Groups (HYSOGs250m) for Curve Number-Based Runoff Modeling 1 MODELS Computer 2017-01-01 to 2017-11-28

N: 83.9997 S: -56.0008 E: 180 W: -180

GeoTIFF
Global Mangrove Loss Extent, Land Cover Change, and Loss Drivers, 2000-2016 1 LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-8, COMPUTERS, LANDSAT-5 ETM+, OLI, Computer, TM 2000-01-01 to 2016-12-31

N: 27.0432 S: -58.4496 E: 164.691 W: -94.5607

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
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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