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Description

This dataset provides vegetation community characteristics and biophysical data collected in 2018 from areas that were burned by wildfire in 2014 and 2015, and from nine unburned validation sites in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The data include vegetation inventories, ground cover, regrowth, tree diameter and height, and woody seedling/sprouting data at burned sites, and similar vegetation community characterization at unburned validation sites. Additional measurements included soil moisture, collected for validation of the UAVSAR airborne collection, and depth to frozen ground at the nine unburned sites. This 2018 fieldwork completes four years of field sampling at the wildfire areas.

Product Summary

Platforms
FIELD SURVEYS
Instruments
SOIL MOISTURE PROBE ,
STEEL MEASURING TAPE
Spatial Extent

N: 62.5658 S: 60.4524 E: -113.42 W: -117.425

Location
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2018-08-12 to 2018-08-22
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2143403376-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
6
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Dominant Species ,
Fire Occurrence ,
Soil Temperature ,
Burned Area ,
Soil Moisture/Water Content ,
Permafrost ,
Biomass ,
Vegetation Cover

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.

Copy Citation

Bourgeau-Chavez, L. L., Battaglia, M. J., Kane, E. S., Cohen, L. M., & Tanzer, D. (2019). ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Vegetation Community and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2018 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1703 Date Accessed: 2026-04-30

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A hierarchical, multisensor framework for peatland subclass and vegetation mapping throughout the Canadian boreal forest Pontone, Nicholas, Millard, Koreen, Thompson, Dan K., Guindon, Luc, Beaudoin, Andre Dominant Species, Fire Occurrence, Soil Temperature, Burned Area, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Permafrost, Biomass, Vegetation Cover, Forests, Carbon, Terrain Elevation, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Species, Soil Depth
The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys Miller, Charles E., Griffith, Peter C., Hoy, Elizabeth, Pinto, Naiara S., Lou, Yunling, Hensley, Scott, Chapman, Bruce D., Baltzer, Jennifer, Bakian-Dogaheh, Kazem, Bolton, W. Robert, Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura, Chen, Richard H., Choe, Byung-Hun, Clayton, Leah K., Douglas, Thomas A., French, Nancy, Holloway, Jean E., Hong, Gang, Huang, Lingcao, Iwahana, Go, Jenkins, Liza, Kimball, John S., Loboda, Tatiana, Mack, Michelle, Marsh, Philip, Michaelides, Roger J., Moghaddam, Mahta, Parsekian, Andrew, Schaefer, Kevin, Siqueira, Paul R., Singh, Debjani, Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza, Turetsky, Merritt, Touzi, Ridha, Wig, Elizabeth, Wilson, Cathy J., Wilson, Paul, Wullschleger, Stan D., Yi, Yonghong, Zebker, Howard A., Zhang, Yu, Zhao, Yuhuan, Goetz, Scott J. Burned Area, Vegetation Species, Forests, Fire Occurrence, Soil Classification, Tree Rings, Soil Depth, Carbon, Topographic Effects, Terrain Elevation, Dew Point Temperature, Alpine/Tundra, Humidity, Active Layer, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Wind Speed, Wildfires, Vegetation Cover, Soil Temperature, Wind Direction, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Dominant Species, Sensor Counts, Litter Characteristics, Organic Matter, Surface Roughness, Forest Fire Science, Biomass, Emissions, Lakes/Reservoirs, Rivers/Streams, Radar Backscatter, RADAR IMAGERY, Soil Texture, Cation Exchange Capacity, Soil Bulk Density, Soil Porosity, Permafrost, Aerosol Particle Properties, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Flight Data Logs, SIGMA NAUGHT, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Rivers/Stream, Infrared Imagery, Lake/Pond, Surface Water Features
Seasonally-decomposed Sentinel-1 backscatter time-series are useful indicators of peatland wildfire vulnerability Millard, K., Darling, S., Pelletier, N., Schultz, S. Dominant Species, Fire Occurrence, Soil Temperature, Burned Area, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Permafrost, Biomass, Vegetation Cover, Forests, Carbon, Terrain Elevation, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Species, Soil Depth
SatViT: Pretraining Transformers for Earth Observation Fuller, Anthony, Millard, Koreen, Green, James R. Dominant Species, Fire Occurrence, Soil Temperature, Burned Area, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Permafrost, Biomass, Vegetation Cover, Forests, Carbon, Terrain Elevation, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Species, Soil Depth
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