Description
This dataset contains tables containing Airborne flight metadata from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) surveys from 2012 to 2022 in Alaska and Canada. NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) conducted airborne SAR surveys of over 120,000 km2 in Alaska and northwestern Canada during 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022. Legacy lines acquired between 2012 and 2015 by other projects are included for completeness and to enable longer times series creation. The data files and companion file contain L-band and P-band airborne SAR metadata acquired during the ABoVE airborne campaigns. Included are detailed descriptions of ~80 SAR flight lines and how each fits into the ABoVE experimental design. Extensive maps, tables, and hyperlinks give direct access to every flight plan as well as individual flight lines. This entry is a guide to enable interested readers to fully explore the ABoVE L- and P-band SAR data.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | ABoVE project site | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | JPG | Flight lines for L-band and P-band PolInSAR measurements capture critical bioclimatic, permafrost, and geographic gradients as well as key field sites and long-term measurement records across the ABoVE domain. The flight lines are collected into 10 composites which roughly correspond to the Alaskan (A1-A4) and Canadian (C1-C6) regions sampled on individual flight days. Basemap source: Google Maps. | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | Summary of the ABoVE L-band and P-band Airborne SAR Surveys, 2012-2022: ABoVE_SAR_Surveys.pdf | Open resource | |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Data set Landing Page DOI URL | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |