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: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Borealis
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; aboveground biomass; leaf area index; Arctic tundra; Trail Valley Creek; L-band SAR; Arctic; Canada; Northwest Territories; Valley Creek; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/O7MCCR

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.