ABoVE: Characterization of Burned and Unburned Spruce Forest Sites, Tanana, AK, 2017

This dataset provides the results of field observations of soil characteristics and depth to permafrost, survey results for Composite Burn Index (CBI) determination, and Landsat-derived estimates of Relative Difference Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) for 38 burned and unburned forest sites near Tanana, Alaska, in 2017. Forests in the study area, at the confluence of the Yukon and Tanana Rivers about 200 km west of Fairbanks, are predominately black spruce on wetter soils and white spruce on drier soils. The burned areas were from wildfires that occurred in the summer of 2015.

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citation Potter, C.S., and C. Hugny. 2019. ABoVE: Characterization of Burned and Unburned Spruce Forest Sites, Tanana, AK, 2017. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1595
graphic-preview-description Photos from July 2017 field surveys. Clockwise from upper left photo: Unburned forest site; burned forest landscape of the Spicer Creek Fire; High Burn Severity (HBS) forest site; eroded roadside on the margin of the Spicer Creek Fire; soil pit to 30 cm depth; charred surface organic layer of HBS site with soil probe handle; surface organic layer of unburned forest site with 1-m long soil probe (Potter & Hugny, 2018).
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issued 2019-02-26
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temporal 2017-07-26T00:00:00Z/2017-07-28T23:59:59Z
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notes This dataset provides the results of field observations of soil characteristics and depth to permafrost, survey results for Composite Burn Index (CBI) determination, and Landsat-derived estimates of Relative Difference Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) for 38 burned and unburned forest sites near Tanana, Alaska, in 2017. Forests in the study area, at the confluence of the Yukon and Tanana Rivers about 200 km west of Fairbanks, are predominately black spruce on wetter soils and white spruce on drier soils. The burned areas were from wildfires that occurred in the summer of 2015.
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title ABoVE: Characterization of Burned and Unburned Spruce Forest Sites, Tanana, AK, 2017