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Soil Organic Carbon Estimates for Mexico

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(A) Digital map of soil organic carbon (kg/m2) at 1 m depth and 90 m spatial resolution. The black and blue colored areas are urban areas and water bodies. (B) An area in northern Mexico illustrating the level of detail achieved by mapping across 90 m grids.

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Estimates of soil organic carbon are now available from Mexico at a 90 meter resolution.

Burn Severity Index of Canadian Ecoregions

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Study area included sites burned in 2014 and 2015 in the southeastern portion of the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta of Canada. The study area includes all 2014 and 2015 fires within a radius of approximately 300 km from Great Slave Lake.

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Pre- and post-fire Landsat images were used to classify burn severity of soil organic matter across portions of arctic Canada.