ABoVE: Burn Severity of Soil Organic Matter, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2014-2015

Description

This dataset provides maps at 30-m resolution of landscape surface burn severity (surface litter and soil organic layers) from the 2014-2015 fires in the Northwest Territories and Northern Alberta, Canada. The maps were derived from Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager/Thermal Infrared Sensor (OLI/TIRS) imagery and two separate multiple linear regression models trained with field data; one for the Plains and a second for the Shield ecoregion. Field observations were used to estimate area burned in each of five severity classes (unburned, singed, light, moderate, severely burned) in six stratified randomly selected plots of 10 x 10-m in size across a 1-ha site. Using this five class scale a burn severity index (BSI) for each 1-ha site was calculated using multiple weighted and averaged field parameters. Pre- and post-fire phenologically paired Landsat 8 images were used to model the five discrete severity classes using midpoints as breaks.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1694
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/above/NWT_Burn_Severity_Maps/
34 Study area included sites burned in 2014 and 2015 in the southeastern portion of the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta of Canada. The study area includes all 2014 and 2015 fires within a radius of approximately 300 km from Great Slave Lake. https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/NWT_Burn_Severity_Maps_Fig1.png
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1694
33 ABoVE: Burn Severity of Soil Organic Matter, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2014-2015: NWT_Burn_Severity_Maps.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/NWT_Burn_Severity_Maps/comp/NWT_Burn_Severity_Maps.pdf
8 ABoVE: Burn Severity of Soil Organic Matter, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2014-2015: severity_training.csv https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/NWT_Burn_Severity_Maps/comp/severity_training.csv
21 ABoVE project site https://above.nasa.gov
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/NWT_Burn_Severity_Maps.html

Tags

  • soils
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • human-dimensions
  • natural-hazards
  • vegetation
  • ecological-dynamics
  • earth-science

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