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Description

This dataset provides the results of field observations of soil characteristics and depth to permafrost, survey results for Composite Burn Index (CBI) determination, and Landsat-derived estimates of Relative Difference Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) for 38 burned and unburned forest sites near Tanana, Alaska in 2017. Forests in the study area, at the confluence of the Yukon and Tanana Rivers about 200 km west of Fairbanks, are predominately black spruce on wetter soils and white spruce on drier soils. The burned areas were from wildfires that occurred in the summer of 2015.

Product Summary

Platforms
FIELD SURVEYS,
LANDSAT
Instruments
PROBES,
SOIL MOISTURE PROBE,
TM
Spatial Extent
N: 65.2315 S: 65.0968 E: -151.951 W: -152.416
Geographic Region
ALASKA
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2017-07-26 to 2017-07-28
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
c2162141870-ornl_cloud
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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POTTER, C. S., & HUGNY, C. (2019). ABoVE: Characterization of Burned and Unburned Spruce Forest Sites, Tanana, AK, 2017. ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1595 Date Accessed: 2025-07-08

Documents

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION ABoVE: Characterization of Burned and Unburned Spruce Forest Sites, Tanana, AK, 2017: AK_TananaSurveys_2017.zip
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION ABoVE: Soil Properties and Thaw Depth at Burned and Unburned Sites, Tanana, AK, 2017: Wildfire_Effects_Spruce_Field.pdf
USER'S GUIDE ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation

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