Terrestrial Biosphere

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Terrestrial Biosphere

In this sequence, an image of the biosphere of the earth is overlaid onto a sphere with both topographic and bathymetric relief. The ocean biospheric data is a composite of 31,352 4 km resolution Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) scenes from November 1978 through June 1981. The land vegetation patterns are derived from three years of daily images from the visible and near-infrared sensors of the NOAA-7 satellite.

First topography and bathymetry, then biospheric data is overlayed onto a rotating globe

Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    63

  • Video ID

    SVS1992-0001

  • Start Timecode

    0:03:03:00

  • End Timecode

    0:04:14:20

  • Animator

    Dave Pape

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1994/03/13

  • Scientist

    Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC), Compton Tucker (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    USGS/DEM, NOAA/ETOPO5

  • Keywords

    Biosphere

  • DLESE Subject

    Physical geography, Physical oceanography, Biological oceanography

  • Data Date

    1978/11/01-1981/06/30

  • Animation Type

    Regular