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Biosphere Data Access and Tools
NASA biosphere data range from surface reflectance data useful for measuring the greenness of vegetation to measurements of nighttime lights that disrupt the behaviors of wildlife. NASA even has socioeconomic data that help reveal the impact of human activities on Earth’s biomes. Our datasets and tools help researchers translate these interconnected data points into actionable knowledge.
Biosphere Data Tools
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| AppEEARS | The The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers users a simple and efficient way to perform data access and transformation processes. | |
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| CASEI | The Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science Investigations (CASEI) is a comprehensive inventory of contextual information for NASA's Earth Science airborne and field campaigns. | |
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| FIRMS | The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity. | |
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| OpenAltimetry | OpenAltimetry is a map-based visualization tool for exploring surface elevation data across Earth over time. | |
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| Panoply | Panoply is a cross-platform application that plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets. | |
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| POPGRID Viewer | POPGRID Viewer explores the intercomparison of population counts and settlement mapping from leading global data sources. | |
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| SDAT | The Spatial Data Access Tool (SDAT) is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards-based web application to visualize and download spatial data in various user-selected spatial/temporal extents, file formats, and projections. | |
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| TESViS | The Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services Global Subsets Tool provides on-demand, customized subsets of several terrestrial ecology data products. | |
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| 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. | |
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| Vertex | Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. | |
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Datasets
| Dataset Sort descending | Size | Start Date | End Date | N Lat | S Lat | E long | W Long |
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| ALOS AVNIR-2 Ortho Rectified Image Product | |||||||
| ALOS PALSAR | |||||||
| ALOS PALSAR Radiometric Terrain Correction (RTC) | |||||||
| Anthropogenic Biomes of the World, Version 1 | 83.08 | -55.75 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| Anthropogenic Biomes of the World, Version 2: 1700 | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| Anthropogenic Biomes of the World, Version 2: 1800 | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| Anthropogenic Biomes of the World, Version 2: 1900 | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| Anthropogenic Biomes of the World, Version 2: 2000 | 90.00 | -90.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 | |||
| China Dimensions Data Collection: China Maps Bibliographic Database | 54.00 | 18.00 | 135.00 | 73.00 | |||
| Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections: The Wellbeing of Nations | 90.00 | -55.00 | 180.00 | -180.00 |
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