ABoVE: Spatial Estimates of Carbon Combustion from Wildfires across SK, Canada, 2015

Description

This dataset provides spatial estimates of carbon combustion from all 2015 wildfire burned areas across Saskatchewan, Canada, on a 30-m grid. Carbon combustion (kg C/m2) was derived from post-fire field measurements of carbon stocks completed in 2016 at 47 stands that burned during three 2015 Saskatchewan wildfires (Egg, Philion, and Brady) and at 32 unburned stands in adjacent areas. The study areas covered two ecozones (Boreal Plains and Boreal Shield), two stand-replacing history types (fire and timber harvest), three soil moisture classes (xeric, mesic, and subhygric), and three stand dominance classifications (coniferous, deciduous, and mixed). To spatially extrapolate estimates of combustion to all 2015 fires in Saskatchewan, a predictive radial support vector machine model was trained on the 47 burned stands with associated environmental variables and geospatial predictors and applied to historical fire areas. The dataset also includes uncertainty estimates represented as per pixel standard deviations of model estimates derived using a Monte Carlo analysis.

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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%2F1787
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/above/Post_Fire_C_Emissions/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/Post_Fire_C_Emissions.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1787
33 ABoVE: Spatial Estimates of Carbon Combustion from Wildfires across SK, Canada, 2015: Post_Fire_C_Emissions.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/Post_Fire_C_Emissions/comp/Post_Fire_C_Emissions.pdf
21 ABoVE project site https://above.nasa.gov
34 Spatial estimates of total carbon combustion at 30-m resolution across the 2015 fire perimeters in Saskatchewan (a) and sampled fires (b, c, d). The spatial extents of sampled fires are shown as blue rectangles in (a). Source: Dieleman et al., 2020 https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/Post_Fire_C_Emissions_Fig1.png

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

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