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Description

This dataset provides annual estimates of six carbon pools, including forest aboveground live biomass, belowground biomass, aboveground dead biomass, belowground dead biomass, litter, and soil organic matter, across the conterminous United States (CONUS) for 2005, 2010, 2015, 2016, and 2017. Carbon stocks were estimated using a modified MaxEnt model. Measurements of pixel-specific site conditions from remote sensing data were combined with field inventory data from the U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA). Remote sensing data inputs included Thematic Mapper on Landsat 5, Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on Aqua, microwave radar measurements from Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) on Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS) and PALSAR-2 ALOS-2, airborne imagery from National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and the digital elevation model from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Data from satellite and airborne sources were co-registered on a common 100 m (1 ha) grid.

Product Summary

Platforms
LANDSAT-5 ,
SPACE SHUTTLES ,
ALOS ,
FIELD SURVEYS ,
Aqua ,
ALOS-2 ,
LANDSAT-8 ,
Models
Instruments
TM ,
SRTM ,
PALSAR ,
Computer ,
SURVEYING TOOLS ,
MODIS ,
PALSAR-2 ,
OLI
Spatial Extent

N: 52.8561 S: 21.5875 E: -64.1285 W: -130.233

Location
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2005-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2389289428-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
30
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Biomass ,
Litter Characteristics ,
Carbon ,
Forests

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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Yu, Y., Saatchi, S. S., Walters, B. F., Ganguly, S., Li, S., Hagen, S., Melendy, L., Nemani, R. R., Domke, G. M., & Woodall, C. W. (2021). Carbon Pools across CONUS using the MaxEnt Model, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2016, and 2017 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1752 Date Accessed: 2026-04-30

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Land change, fire, and climate weaken carbon sink in the conterminous United States Liu, Jinxun, Sleeter, Benjamin M., Zhu, Zhiliang, Cochrane, Mark A., Zhou, Qiang, Wang, Bin, Domke, Grant M., Selmants, Paul C., Windham-Myers, Lisamarie, Zhu, Qiuan, Wilson, Tamara S., Byrd, Kristin B., Ward, Eric J., Sohl, Terry L., Hawbaker, Todd J., Zhang, Zhen, Soulard, Christopher E., Wickland, Kimberly P., Striegl, Robert G. Biomass, Forests, Grasslands, Alpine/Tundra, Litter Characteristics, Carbon
Efficient first-order algorithms for large-scale, non-smooth maximum entropy models with application to wildfire science Provencher Langlois, Gabriel, Buch, Jatan, Darbon, Jerome Biomass, Litter Characteristics, Carbon, Forests
Human risk to tick encounters in the southeastern United States estimated with spatial distribution modeling Butler, Rebecca A., Papes, Mona, Vogt, James T., Paulsen, Dave J., Crowe, Christopher, Trout Fryxell, Rebecca T. Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Biomass, Litter Characteristics, Carbon, Forests, Runoff, Soil Texture, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Burned Area
Making the US national forest inventory spatially contiguous and temporally consistent Yu, Yifan, Saatchi, Sassan, Domke, Grant M, Walters, Brian, Woodall, Christopher, Ganguly, Sangram, Li, Shuang, Kalia, Subodh, Park, Taejin, Nemani, Ramakrishna, Hagen, Stephen C, Melendy, Lindsay Biomass, Carbon, Litter Characteristics, Carbon, Forests
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