Annual Aboveground Biomass Maps for Forests in the Northwestern USA, 2000-2016

Description

This dataset provides annual maps of aboveground biomass (AGB, Mg/ha) for forests in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana, USA, for the years 2000-2016, at a spatial resolution of 30 meters. Tree measurements were summarized with the Fire and Fuels Extension of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FFE-FVS) to estimate AGB in field plots contributed by stakeholders, then lidar was used to predict plot-level AGB using the Random Forests machine learning algorithm. The machine learning outputs were used to predict AGB from Landsat time series imagery processed through LandTrendr, climate metrics generated from 30-year climate normals, and topographic metrics generated from a 30-m Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital elevation model (DEM). The non-forested pixels were masked using the PALSAR 2009 forest/nonforest mask.

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Name Format Description Link
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/cms/CMS_AGB_NW_USA/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/CMS/guides/CMS_AGB_NW_USA.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1719
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1719
34 Forest aboveground biomass in megagrams per hectare for the year 2016. Source: AGB_Forest_NW_USA_2016.tif https://daac.ornl.gov/CMS/guides/CMS_AGB_NW_USA_Fig1.png
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/cms/CMS_AGB_NW_USA/data/
33 CMS: Aboveground Forest Biomass Maps for Northwestern USA, 2000-2016: CMS_AGB_NW_USA.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/cms/CMS_AGB_NW_USA/comp/CMS_AGB_NW_USA.pdf

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  • ecosystems
  • biosphere
  • vegetation
  • earth-science

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