- Biosphere - NASA Earthdata
Life within Earth’s biosphere consists of millions of species living in various types of biomes such as grassland, forest, desert, aquatic, and tundra areas Biomes are often divided into numerous subtypes, including rainforest or savannah
- Biodiversity Functions | NASA Earthdata
Data on vegetation health, primary productivity, evapotranspiration, forest structure, and ocean chlorophyll shed light on the health and productivity of the biosphere NASA data can also be used to study the suitability of an environment for different species, as well as species distribution within a habitat
- Anthropogenic Human Influenced Ecosystems | NASA Earthdata
When humans build cities, plant or cut down forests, grow crops, burn fuel, and alter bodies of water, it can have profound impacts on Earth's biosphere, both positive and negative Understanding the ways in which humans interact with the environment and how the resulting changes affect Earth’s systems is important to ensuring that humans and
- Wetlands | NASA Earthdata
The biosphere encompasses all life on Earth and extends from root systems to mountaintops and all depths
- Terrestrial Hydrosphere | NASA Earthdata
Water, snow, and ice are necessary for sustaining life on Earth and help connect the planet's systems The terrestrial hydrosphere includes water on the land surface and underground in the form of lakes, rivers, and groundwater along with total water storage
- Cryosphere | NASA Earthdata
NASA has data on sea ice, glaciers, snow cover, and other frozen features that comprise Earth’s cryosphere and effect human activity and our planet
- Vegetation Index | NASA Earthdata
LAI is the amount of leaf area in an ecosystem; more specifically, it is the one-sided green leaf area per unit ground area in broadleaf canopies, and is one-half of the total needle surface area per unit ground area in coniferous canopies
- Your Gateway to NASA Earth Observation Data | NASA Earthdata
Explore Learning Resources NASA’s massive archive of Earth science data are free and open to any user for any purpose—but accessing, analyzing, visualizing, and applying these data requires a certain degree of knowledge about Earth observation data and how it is collected and optimized
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