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Annual Aboveground Biomass for Boreal Forests of ABoVE Core Domain, 1984-2014

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-06-06
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Spatial distribution of predicted aboveground biomass density averaged over 1984-2014 for the ABoVE Core Study Domain.
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Spatial distribution of predicted aboveground biomass (AGB) density averaged over 1984-2014 for the ABoVE Core Study Domain. Ecoregions represent the EPA Level 2 Ecoregion boundaries. Source: Wang et al. (2021)

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Estimated annual AGB density for live woody species in the ABoVE Core Study Domain from 1984-2014.
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Predicted AGB Estimates for Six Selected US Tidal Marshes

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-05-21
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The largest present-day amount of tidal vegetation biomass were found across the Terrebonne and St. Mary Parishes of the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana. (Source Louisiana_biomass_2015.tif)
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An area of the Mississippi River Delta (Terrebonne and St. Mary Parishes, LA, USA) showing the largest present-day amount of tidal vegetation biomass in the conterminous US. (Source Louisiana_biomass_2015.tif).

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Aboveground tidal marsh biomass estimates for six estuarine regions of the conterminous United States.
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Annual high-resolution estimates of Land Use and Cover from the Mawas research area, Indonesia

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-05-21
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Land cover maps at 30 m resolution across Mawas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia in 1994 (left) and 2004 (right).
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Land cover maps at 30 m resolution across Mawas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia in 1994 (left) and 2004 (right).

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Annual land use/cover (LUC) maps at 30 m resolution across Mawas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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Forest Change From Canopy Cover Loss from 1986-2010

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NAFD Attribution type layer
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North American Forest Dynamics (NAFD) attribution type layer illustrating the type of change event where all events from 1986-2010 were combined. Source: Schleeweis et al. (2020) https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1799

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The North American Forest Dynamics Attribution product provides information depicting forest change across 258 million ha of the conterminous U.S.
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Explaining Vegetation Greening Trends in Yellowstone

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Map of NDVI in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
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Trends in maximum annual NDVI for natural vegetation within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) from 1989 to 2014 (Emmett et al. 2019).

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Daymet and North American Carbon Program (NACP) data were used to study Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) trends across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

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Map of NDVI in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Wildfire Burn Severity Across Alaska and Canada

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30-m dNBR for a burn scar in ABoVE grid tile Bh05Bv03
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The differenced Normalized Burned Ratio (dNBR) for a burn scar from fires in 2015 within ABoVE grid tile Bh05Bv03. A higher dNBR indicates a higher fire severity.

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New data from NASA's ABoVE campaign provides a high-resolution record of differenced Normalized Burned Ratio (dNBR) for fires from 1985-2015.

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30-m dNBR for a burn scar in ABoVE grid tile Bh05Bv03
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