NDVI, Species Cover, and LAI, Burned and Unburned sites, Interior Alaska, 2017-2018 : Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE)

• Main Authors: Fiore, N., Pedron, S., Tayo, M., Czimczik, C.I., Goulden, M.L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center 2021
• Subjects: BIOSPHERE, VEGETATION, VEGETATION COVER,; BIOSPHERE, ECOSYSTEMS, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, FORESTS; BIOSPHERE, VEGETATION, LEAF CHARACTERISTICS, LEAF AREA INDEX LAI; BIOSPHERE, VEGETATION, VEGETATION INDEX, NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX NDVI; LANDSAT-7, MODIS; LANDSAT-8, MODIS; LANDSAT-5, MODIS; FIELD SURVEYS, CORING DEVICES; FIELD SURVEYS, LICOR LEAF AREA METER; canopy cover; vegetation cover; tree species; LAI; NDVI trends; Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ornldaac/1797; https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1797

This dataset provides leaf area index (LAI), tree species and canopy cover, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and NDVI trends for boreal forests in interior Alaska, USA. These data were collected to investigate NDVI trends with forest structure and composition as influenced by disturbance and succession. The data are from 102 sites surveyed in 2017 and 2018 and include locations with and without a fire since 1940. A time series of NDVI was developed from Landsat (1999 - 2018) to measure NDVI trends. The field data cover the period 2017-08-29 to 2018-08-20.