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Aboveground Vegetation Structure for Herbaceous Wetlands across MRD

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-09-29
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Aboveground vegetation sorted by species into biomass and necromass components.

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Mean stem diameter, mean height, dominant species, hydrogeomorphic zone, and stem density for vegetation in herbaceous wetlands collected in southeastern coastal Louisiana.

Post-Fire and Unburned Vegetation Community & Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2017

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-09-29
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Researchers collecting data on vegetation and biophysical characteristics at a study site in Northwest Territories of Canada that was burned by wildfires in 2014-2015.

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Vegetation community characteristics, soil moisture, and biophysical data collected in 2017 from 11 study sites in the ABoVE Study area.
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ABoVE: Burned Area, Depth, and Combustion, 2001-2019

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-09-29
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Total burned area (a), total carbon emissions (b), mean combustion (c), and mean burn depth (d) between 2001-2019 aggregated to a 70 km grid. Note that burned area (a) covers all of Alaska and Canada whereas all other metrics cover the ABoVE extended domain.

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Annual gridded estimates of fire locations and associated burn fraction per pixel for Alaska and Canada at approximately 500 m spatial resolution for the period 2001-2019.
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MASTER: SARP Campaigns from 2009 to 2018, California, USA

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-08-22
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RGB composite MASTER image from data collected during the SARP campaign over Pyramid Lake, California, USA  on 2009-07-24. Image derived from bands 12, 10, 9 spanning visible to near-infrared wavelengths.

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Level 1B (L1B) data products from the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument were collected and developed by the Student Airborne Research Program (SARP).

MASTER: HyspIRI Airborne Campaign

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-07-28
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Single band images and an RGB composite image from flight track 1 acquired on 26 March 2013 over Mono Lake, California, U.S. Source: /MASTERL1B_1393500_01_20130326_1728_1733_V01.jpg from dataset MASTER: HyspIRI Airborne Campaign, California, Early Spring 2013.

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The MASTER instrument is a modified Daedalus Wildfire scanning spectrometer that flies on a variety of multi-altitude research aircraft