Shrub aboveground biomass and Leaf Area Index maps, Trail Valley Creek Watershed, Northwest Territories [Canada], 2018 to 2019

• Main Authors: Chang, Qianyu, Zwieback. Simon, Berg, Aaron, DeVries, Ben
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: leaf area index; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Trail Valley Creek; Arctic tundra; L-band SAR; aboveground biomass; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Canada; Valley Creek; Tundra
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:5164b8d9cb01d0a4abb23890eb20d68dfedb6a60492ba224fc1fda8548ddc942

As the shrub cover expands across the Arctic tundra with climate warming, an accurate and cost-effective tool to quantitatively map the shrub cover is needed. This dataset and the associated study explore the potentials of L-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite image (ALOS-2) in estimating Arctic shrub biomass and leaf area index (LAI). This dataset includes in-situ measurements of shrub canopy parameters and the ALOS-2 derived maps of birch shrub biomass and LAI in Trail Valley Creek watershed, Northwest Territories.